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. 13, July 16, 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.