Definitions—Revolving Fund

PURPOSE: This rule provides definitions for the following regulations pertaining to the Historic Preservation Revolving Fund. (1) As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the following terms are defined as follows: (A) Community or local community means the local city or county government, the local preservation organizations, other local organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce, Main Street or Merchants organization, or other group of concerned, preservation-minded citizens; (B) Department means the Department of Natural Resources; (C) Development means to realize the possibilities of a property by improving it or making it more effective; (D) Fund means the Historic Preservation Revolving Fund pursuant to 253.400, RSMo et seq.; (E) Historic property or property means any building, structure, district, area, or site that is significant in the history, architecture, archaeology, or culture of this state, its communities, or this country, which is listed or is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places defined at 36 CFR Part 60.4; (F) Marketability or marketable means a property in demand by potential buyers for acquisition; (G) National Register means the National Register of Historic Places; (H) Project means the acquisition, stabilization, rehabilitation, development, marketing, maintenance or restoration, or a combination of these, of an historic property; (I) Rehabilitation means the act or process of making possible a compatible use for a property through repair, alterations, and additions while preserving those portions or features which convey its historical, cultural, or architectural values in compliance with the Treatment Standards; (J) Restoration means the act or process of accurately depicting the form, features, and character of a property as it appeared at a particular period of time by means of the removal of features from other periods in its history and reconstruction of missing features from the restoration period. The limited and sensitive upgrading of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems and other code-compliant work to make properties functional is appropriate within a restoration project in compliance with the Treatment Standards; (K) Stabilization means the act or process of applying measures designed to reestablish a weather resistant enclosure and the structural stability of unsafe or deteriorated property while maintaining the essential form as it exists at present or, in the alternative, those repairs which are necessary to keep a structure from violating local building codes or being a public safety hazard; (L) Staff means the department’s State Historic Preservation Office funded employees; (M) State Historic Preservation Office is a program of the Department of Natural Resources, Division of State Parks, responsible for administering the statewide historic preservation program, including administration of the Historic Preservation Revolving Fund; and (N) Treatment Standards refer to the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards and Guidelines for the Treatment of Historic Properties at 36 CFR Part 68, as revised. AUTHORITY: section 253.035, RSMo 2016.* Original rule filed May 28, 1992, effective Jan. 15, 1993. Amended: Filed March 26, 2018, effective Nov. 30, 2018. *Original authority: 253.035, RSMo 1961, amended 1967, 1983, 1993, 1995.