Virginia Administrative Code › Title 17 - LIBRARIES AND CULTURAL RESOURCES › Agency 5 - BOARD OF HISTORIC RESOURCES › Chapter 30 - EVALUATION CRITERIA AND PROCEDURES FOR DESIGNATIONS BY THE BOARD OF HISTORIC RESOURCES › Part I - Definitions; Applicability › Section 17VAC5-30-10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
					 shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise:
"Board" means the Virginia Board of Historic
					 Resources.
"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.
"Designation" means an act of official recognition by the
					 Board of Historic Resources designed to educate the public to the significance
					 of the designated resource and to encourage local governments and property
					 owners to take the designated property's historic, architectural,
					 archaeological, and cultural significance into account in their planning, the
					 local government comprehensive plan, and their decision making. Designation,
					 itself, shall not regulate the action of local governments or property owners
					 with regard to the designated property.
"Director" means the Director of the Department of Historic
					 Resources.
"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.
"Nomination form" means the form prescribed by the board
					 for use by any person in presenting a property to the board for designation by
					 the board.
"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.
"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.
"Virginia Landmarks Register" means the official list of
					 properties designated by the board pursuant to § 10.1-2204(1) of the Code
					 of Virginia, or by the board's predecessor boards, as constituting the
					 principal historical, architectural, and archaeological resources that are of
					 local, statewide, or national significance.
Statutory Authority
§ 10.1-2205 of the Code of Virginia.