New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 4 - CULTURAL RESOURCES
Chapter 10 - CULTURAL PROPERTIES AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Part 13 - AWARDING OF GRANTS FROM THE CULTURAL PROPERTIES RESTORATION FUND
Section 4.10.13.7 - DEFINITIONS

Universal Citation: 4 NM Admin Code 4.10.13.7

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024

A. "Committee" means the cultural properties review committee as created in Section 18-6-5 NMSA 1978.

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 office of cultural affairs.

D. "Fund" means the cultural properties restoration fund.

E. "Interpretation" means the inventory, registration, mapping and/or 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 cultural property from deterioration or damage caused by weather or other natural, animal or human intrusions.

J. "Reconstruction" means depicting by means of new construction the form, features, and details of a non-surviving site, landscape, building, structure or object for the purposes of replicating its historic appearance.

K. "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.

L. "Stabilization" means reestablishing the structural stability or weather-resistant failure.

M. "State agency" means a department, agency, institution or political subdivision of the state.

N. "State land" means property owned, controlled or operated by a state agency.

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