§ 18-6A-2 — Definitions

As used in the Cultural Properties Protection Act: A. "committee" means the cultural properties review committee; B. "cultural property" means a structure, place, site or object having historic, archaeological, scientific, architectural or other cultural significance; C. "division" means the historic preservation division of the cultural affairs department; D. "fund" means the cultural properties restoration fund; E. "interpretation" means the inventory, registration, mapping and analysis of cultural properties and public educational programs designed to prevent the loss of cultural properties; F. "officer" means the state historic preservation officer; G. "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; H. "professional survey" means an archaeological or architectural survey; I. "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; J. "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; K. "stabilization" means reestablishing the structural stability or weather-resistant condition of a cultural property or arresting deterioration that may lead to structural failure; L. "state agency" means a department, agency, institution or political subdivision of the state; and M. "state land" means property owned, controlled or operated by a state agency.

Legislative History

Laws 1993, ch. 176, § 2; 2004, ch. 25, § 35.