§ 18-6A-2. Definitions

As used in the Cultural Properties Protection Act: A. “ committee ” means the cultural properties review committee; B. “ cultural property ” means a structure, place, site or object having historic, archaeological, scientific, architectural or other cultural significance; C. “ division ” means the historic preservation division of the cultural affairs department; D. “ fund ” means the cultural properties restoration fund; E. “ interpretation ” means the inventory, registration, mapping and analysis of cultural properties and public educational programs designed to prevent the loss of cultural properties; F. “ officer ” means the state historic preservation officer; G. “ preservation ” means sustaining the existing form, integrity and material of a cultural property or the existing form and vegetative cover of a cultural property and may include protective maintenance or stabilization where necessary in the case of archaeological sites; H. “ professional survey ” means an archaeological or architectural survey; I. “ protection ” means safeguarding the physical condition or environment of a cultural property from deterioration or damage caused by weather or other natural, animal or human intrusions; J. “ restoration ” means recovering the general historic appearance of a cultural property or the form and details of an object or structure by removing incompatible natural or human-caused accretions and replacing missing elements as appropriate; K. “ stabilization ” means reestablishing the structural stability or weather-resistant condition of a cultural property or arresting deterioration that may lead to structural failure; L. “ state agency ” means a department, agency, institution or political subdivision of the state; and M. “ state land ” means property owned, controlled or operated by a state agency.