Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 13 - DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES › Subtitle 8 - HAWAII HISTORIC PLACES REVIEW BOARD › Chapter 198 - THE HAWAII AND NATIONAL REGISTERS OF HISTORIC PLACES PROGRAMS › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 13-198-2 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
As used in this chapter:
"Agency" means any board, commission, department, bureau,
					 or political subdivision of the State, or county governments.
"Building" means a structure created to shelter any form
					 of human activity, such as a house, barn, church, hotel, or similar structure.
					 Buildings may refer to a historically related complex such as a court-house and
					 jail or a house and barn.
"Department" means the department of land and natural
					 resources, State of Hawaii.
"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.
"Hawaii register" means the Hawaii register of historic
					 places, which is a state register of historic properties, maintained by the
					 review board.
"Historic property" means any building, structure, object,
					 district, area, or site, including underwater site, that is significant in the
					 history, architecture, archaeology, or culture of this State, its communities,
					 or the nation.
"National register" means the national register of
					 historic places, which is a federal register of historic places maintained by
					 the United States Secretary of Interior under authority of section 2(b) of the
					 Historic Sites Act of 1935 (49 Stat. 666,
					 16
					 U.S.C §461 ) and section 101(a) (1) of
					 the National Historic Preservation Act (
					 16
					 U.S.C. §470a ).
"Object" means any material thing of functional,
					 aesthetic, cultural, historical, or scientific value that may be, by nature or
					 design, movable, yet may be related to a specific setting or
					 environment.
"Owner or owners" means a person having fee simple title
					 to the property being nominated for registration into the Hawaii register or
					 national register, which interest is legally recorded at the bureau of
					 conveyances or the land court at the State of Hawaii. If the property being
					 nominated is publicly owned, the owner shall mean the department of land and
					 natural resources or in cases where the public property is under the control
					 and management (i.e. deed, executive order) of an agency, shall mean the
					 administrative officer responsible for the control and management of the
					 property. Owner shall not include persons holding less than fee interest in the
					 property (i.e. lease, easement, permit, or license).
"Party" means each person or agency named or admitted as a
					 party, or property seeking and entitled as of right to be admitted as a party,
					 in any hearing before the review board under this chapter.
"Person" includes an individual, partnership, corporation,
					 association, or public or private organization of any character other than an
					 agency.
"Preservation officer" means the state historic
					 preservation officer.
"Review board" means the Hawaii historic places review
					 board.
"Site" means 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
					 structures.
"State" means the State of Hawaii.
"Structure" means 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.