New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 4 - CULTURAL RESOURCES
Chapter 10 - CULTURAL PROPERTIES AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Part 18 - STATE REGISTER OF CULTURAL PROPERTIES
Section 4.10.18.7 - DEFINITIONS
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 6, March 26, 2024
A. "Building" means a structure created principally to shelter any form of human activity. Buildings include, but are not limited to, houses, barns, stables, sheds, garages, warehouses, courthouses, city halls, social halls, commercial buildings, libraries, factories, mills, train depots, motels, theaters, schools, stores and churches. Buildings may refer to a historically related complex such as a court house and jail or a house and barn.
B. "Chief elected local official" means the mayor, county judge, county executive or otherwise titled chief elected administrative official who is the elected head of the local political jurisdiction in which the property is located.
C. "CPRC" means the cultural properties review committee, created pursuant to NMSA 1978, Section 18-6-4 and serves as the New Mexico state review board pursuant to 36 CFR 60.3(o).
D. "Cultural property" or "cultural resource" means a structure, place, site or object having historic, archaeological, scientific, architectural or other cultural significance.
E. "District" means a geographically definable area, urban or rural, possessing a significant concentration, linkage, or continuity of sites, buildings, structures, or objects united by past events or aesthetically by plan or physical development. A district may also comprise individual elements separated geographically but linked by association or history.
F. Historic preservation division" or "HPD" means the division within the department of cultural
affairs created pursuant to NMSA 1978, Section 18-6-8 A and NMSA 1978, Section 9-4A-4 with offices located at 407 Galisteo Street, Suite 236, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501.
G. "HPD website" means http://nmhistoricpreservation.org.
H. "Keeper of the national register of historic places" or "keeper" means the individual who has been delegated the authority by the national park service to list properties and determine their eligibility for listing in the national register pursuant to 36 CFR 60.3(f).
I. "National register" means the national register of historic places established by the National Historic Preservation Act, 16 U.S.C. 470 a(a) and the official national list of historic districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects significant in American history, architecture, archaeology, engineering or culture.
J. "New Mexico register nomination form" means the form prescribed by the CPRC with maps and photographs that is presented to the CPRC for decision on registration.
K. "Object" means a material thing of functional, aesthetic, cultural, historical or scientific value that may be, by nature or design, movable yet related to a specific setting or environment.
L. "Owner" means those individuals, partnerships, corporations or public agencies holding fee simple title to property as recorded by the county clerk's office. Owner, as used in this rule, does not include individuals, partnerships, corporations or public agencies holding easements or less than fee interests (including leaseholds) of any nature.
M. "Place" means an identifiable geographic location that possesses cultural or historic significance including districts and sites, as appropriate.
N. "Registered cultural property" means a cultural property placed in the state register. A registered cultural property may be listed individually or as significant or contributing within a district.
O. "Registration order" means the form prescribed by the CPRC, and completed by the HPD at the direction of the CPRC documenting its decision on registration.
P. "Site" means the location of a significant event, or a prehistoric or historic occupation or activity, or a building or structure, whether standing, ruined, or vanished, where the location itself maintains historical, cultural or archaeological value regardless of the value of any existing structure.
Q. "State agency" means a department, agency, institution or political subdivision of the state.
R. "State historic preservation officer" or "SHPO" means the individual designated by the governor pursuant to the National Historic Preservation Act, 16 U.S.C. 470 a(b) and the director of the historic preservation division of the department of cultural affairs, as provided for in NMSA 1978, Section 18-6-8.
S. "State register" means the official New Mexico register of cultural properties maintained by the CPRC for the purpose of recording cultural properties worthy of preservation pursuant to NMSA 1978, Section 18-6-3.
T. "Survey" means a visual inspection to examine, identify, record, evaluate and interpret cultural properties.
U. "Structure" means an engineered construction made up of interdependent and interrelated parts in a definite pattern of organization. In addition to buildings, structures include bridges, dams, canals, wells and other engineering works.
