Virginia Administrative Code › Title 17 - LIBRARIES AND CULTURAL RESOURCES › Agency 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HISTORIC RESOURCES › Chapter 20 - EVALUATION CRITERIA AND PROCEDURES FOR NOMINATIONS OF PROPERTY TO THE NATIONAL REGISTER OR FOR DESIGNATION AS A NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK › Part I - Definitions; Applicability › Section 17VAC10-20-10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
"Building" means a structure created to shelter any form of
					 human activity, such as a house, barn, church, hotel, or similar structure.
					 "Building" may also refer to a historically related complex such as a
					 courthouse and jail or a house and barn.
"Chief elected local official" means the mayor of the city
					 or town or the chairman of the board of supervisors of the county in which the
					 property is located.
"Department" means the Department of Historic
					 Resources.
"Determination of eligibility" means a decision by the
					 Department of the Interior that a district, site, building, structure, or
					 object meets the National Register criteria for evaluation although the
					 property is not formally listed on the National Register.
"Director" means the Director of the Department of Historic
					 Resources. The Director of the Department is the State Historic Preservation
					 Officer (SHPO) for Virginia.
"District" means a geographically definable area 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. A district
					 includes local tax parcels that have separate owners. For purposes of this
					 chapter, a historic district does not mean a locally established historic
					 zoning district pursuant to § 15.1-503.2 of the Code of Virginia.
"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
					 the National Register.
"National Register of Historic Places" or "National
					 Register" means the list established by the National Historic Preservation Act
					 of 1966 for the purpose of identifying properties of value for their
					 significance in history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, or
					 culture.
"National Historic Landmark" is a resource designated by
					 the Secretary of the Interior as having national significance.
"Nominate" means to propose that a district, site,
					 building, structure, or object be listed in or determined eligible for listing
					 in the National Register of Historic Places by preparing and submitting to the
					 keeper a nomination form, with accompanying maps and photographs which
					 adequately document the property and are technically and professionally correct
					 and sufficient. The nomination form shall be the National Register nomination
					 form prescribed by the keeper.
"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. Examples of objects
					 include boats, monuments, and fixed pieces of sculpture.
"Owner" or "owners" means those individuals, partnerships,
					 corporations, or public agencies holding fee simple title to property. "Owner"
					 or "owners" does not include individuals, partnerships, corporations, or public
					 agencies holding easements or less than fee interests (including leaseholds) of
					 any nature.
"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 archeological value regardless of the value of any existing
					 structure.
"State Review Board" means that body, appointed by the
					 State Historic Preservation Officer pursuant to the National Historic
					 Preservation Act ( P.L. 89-665 ), as amended, whose members represent the
					 professional fields of American history, architectural history, historic
					 architecture, prehistoric and historic archaeology, and other professional
					 disciplines, and may include citizen members. The State Review Board reviews
					 and approves National Register nominations concerning whether or not they meet
					 the criteria for evaluation prior to their submittal to the National Park
					 Service.
"Structure" means a man-made work composed of
					 interdependent and interrelated parts in a definite pattern of organization. In
					 addition to buildings, structures include bridges, dams, canals, docks, walls,
					 and other engineering works.
Statutory Authority
§ 10.1-2202 of the Code of Virginia.