Definitions

The terms used throughout this title have the same meaning as in North Dakota Century Code chapter 55-03, except: 1. "Board" means the state historical board as defined in North Dakota Century Code section 55-01-01. 2. "Contractor" means any person, real or corporate, who performs cultural resources work for profit or cost reimbursement on behalf of a project sponsor. 3. "Cultural resources work" means all of those processes, procedures, and efforts normally construed by state and federal regulations as necessary for the conduct of investigations, evaluations, or mitigation of adverse effects of proposed projects to historic buildings, structures, or objects, including preproject planning, planning, execution, and reporting of results. 4. "Direct supervision" means active supervision of field and office/laboratory activities by a qualified individual at least seventy-five percent of the time expended for those activities as documented by project records. 5. "Director" means the director of the state historical society of North Dakota as set forth in North Dakota Century Code section 55-02-01. 6. "Instrumentality of the state" means all agencies, departments, boards, and commissions, and all political subdivisions, of state government. 7. "Permit application fee" means the payment for an annual permit required to conduct cultural resources work. 8. "Project sponsor" means any person, real or corporate, including agencies, departments, companies, nonprofit corporations, corporations, instrumentalities of government, partnerships, political subdivisions, or institutions, which pays for cultural resources work projects. 9. "Report filing fee" means the payment required to accompany a cultural resources work report by a contractor which is deposited with the state historical board of North Dakota, and which report will subsequently be considered in review of proposed projects considered under the laws and regulations described in North Dakota Century Code section 55-03-01.