As used in the Cultural Properties Act [18-6-1 to 18-6-17 NMSA 1978]:
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. "registered cultural property" means a cultural property that has been placed on the official register on either a permanent or temporary basis by the committee;
D. "official register" means the New Mexico register of cultural properties maintained by the committee for the purpose of recording cultural properties deemed worthy of preservation; and
E. "state land" means property owned, controlled or operated by a department, agency, institution or political subdivision of the state.
History: 1953 Comp., § 4-27-6, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 223, § 3; 1993, ch. 176, § 7.
ANNOTATIONSThe 1993 amendment, effective June 18, 1993, added Subsection E and made several minor stylistic changes throughout the section.