Section 18-6A-2 - Definitions.
18-6A-2. Definitions.
As used in the Cultural Properties Protection Act [18-6A-1 NMSA 1978]:
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.