Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia › Department 110 - RULES OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS › Chapter 110-37 - HISTORIC PRESERVATION › Subject 110-37-2 - EVALUATION OF PROPERTIES FOR THE GEORGIA REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES › Rule 110-37-2-.01 - Definitions

Current through Rules and Regulations filed through June 27, 2024
(1) "Building". A
				building is a structure created to shelter any form of human activity, such as
				a house, barn, church, hotel, or similar structure. Building may refer to a
				historically related complex such as a courthouse and jail or a house and
				barn.
(2) "Department" means the
				Department of Community Affairs.
(3) "Georgia Register of Historic Places" or
				"Georgia Register" means the Georgia Register of districts, sites, buildings,
				structures, and objects significant in Georgia history, architecture,
				engineering, and culture.
(4)
				"Historic District" means a geographically definable area, urban or rural, that
				possesses 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.
(5) "Historic Property" is defined in
				O.C.G.A. §
									12-3-50.2 and means districts,
				sites, buildings, structures, or objects which possess integrity of location,
				design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association and which are
				determined to meet the criteria for listing in the Georgia Register of Historic
				Places according to the criteria outlined in these regulations.
(6) "National Historic Preservation Act"
				means the Act of Congress codified at
				16 U.S.C. Section
				470 et seq., as amended (Public Law 89-665,
				as amended).
(7) "National Register
				of Historic Places" means the national list of districts, sites, buildings,
				structures, and objects significant in American history, architecture,
				archaeology, engineering, and culture, maintained by the Secretary of the
				Interior under authority of the National Historic Preservation Act.
(8) "Site". A site is the location of a
				significant event, a prehistoric or historic occupation or activity, or a
				building or structure, whether standing, ruined, or vanished, where the
				location itself maintains historical or archaeological value regardless of the
				value of any existing structure.
(9) "State Historic Preservation Office"
				means the office within state government which carries out the function of the
				state historic preservation program under the National Historic Preservation
				Act. In Georgia, this is the Historic Preservation Division, Department of
				Community Affairs.
(10) "State
				Historic Preservation Officer" means the official designated by the Governor of
				Georgia to administer the state's historic preservation program under the
				National Historic Preservation Act and O.C.G.A §
									12-3-50.1(c)(13).
(11) "State Historic Preservation Review
				Board". The State Historic Preservation Review Board means a board designated
				by the State Historic Preservation Officer and consisting of members
				representing the professional fields of Georgia history, architectural history,
				historical architecture, prehistoric and historic archaeology, and other
				professional disciplines which may include citizen members.
(12) "Structure". A structure is a work made
				up of interdependent and interrelated parts in a definite pattern of
				organization. Constructed by man, it is often an engineering project large in
				scale.
O.C.G.A. §
										12-3-50.2.