{"data":{"id":"us-nm/18-6a-2","jurisdiction":"us-nm","citation":"18-6A-2","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in the Cultural Properties Protection Act:\nA. \"committee\" means the cultural properties review committee;\nB. \"cultural property\" means a structure, place, site or object having historic, archaeological, scientific, architectural or other cultural significance;\nC. \"division\" means the historic preservation division of the cultural affairs department;\nD. \"fund\" means the cultural properties restoration fund;\nE. \"interpretation\" means the inventory, registration, mapping and analysis of cultural properties and public educational programs designed to prevent the loss of cultural properties;\nF. \"officer\" means the state historic preservation officer;\nG. \"preservation\" means sustaining the existing form, integrity and material of a cultural property or the existing form and vegetative cover of a cultural property and may include protective maintenance or stabilization where necessary in the case of archaeological sites;\nH. \"professional survey\" means an archaeological or architectural survey;\nI. \"protection\" means safeguarding the physical condition or environment of a cultural property from deterioration or damage caused by weather or other natural, animal or human intrusions;\nJ. \"restoration\" means recovering the general historic appearance of a cultural property or the form and details of an object or structure by removing incompatible natural or human-caused accretions and replacing missing elements as appropriate;\nK. \"stabilization\" means reestablishing the structural stability or weather-resistant condition of a cultural property or arresting deterioration that may lead to structural failure;\nL. \"state agency\" means a department, agency, institution or political subdivision of the state; and\nM. \"state land\" means property owned, controlled or operated by a state agency.","path":["Chapter 18 - Libraries, Museums and Cultural Properties","ARTICLE 6A Cultural Properties Protection"],"source_url":"https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/item/18518/index.do","current_through":"2024-04-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T15:02:19Z","sha256":"c2101a57e85e2bddc3505df72ea78c59c1b4bd51fa571c7d76a8e751c872d502","source_id":"us-nm","stale":false,"prev":"us-nm/18-6a-1","next":"us-nm/18-6a-3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}