Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 110-37-2-.01 - Definitions
(1) "Building". A
building is a structure created to shelter any form of human activity, such as
a house, barn, church, hotel, or similar structure. Building may refer to a
historically related complex such as a courthouse and jail or a house and
barn.
(2) "Department" means the
Department of Community Affairs.
(3) "Georgia Register of Historic Places" or
"Georgia Register" means the Georgia Register of districts, sites, buildings,
structures, and objects significant in Georgia history, architecture,
engineering, and culture.
(4)
"Historic District" means a geographically definable area, urban or rural, that
possesses 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.
(5) "Historic Property" is defined in
O.C.G.A. § 12-3-50.2
and means districts, sites, buildings, structures, or objects which possess
integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and
association and which are determined to meet the criteria for listing in the
Georgia Register of Historic Places according to the criteria outlined in these
regulations.
(6) "National Historic
Preservation Act" means the Act of Congress codified at
16 U.S.C. Section
470 et seq., as amended (Public Law 89-665,
as amended).
(7) "National Register
of Historic Places" means the national list of districts, sites, buildings,
structures, and objects significant in American history, architecture,
archaeology, engineering, and culture, maintained by the Secretary of the
Interior under authority of the National Historic Preservation Act.
(8) "Site". A site is 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 archaeological value regardless of the
value of any existing structure.
(9) "State Historic Preservation Office"
means the office within state government which carries out the function of the
state historic preservation program under the National Historic Preservation
Act. In Georgia, this is the Historic Preservation Division, Department of
Community Affairs.
(10) "State
Historic Preservation Officer" means the official designated by the Governor of
Georgia to administer the state's historic preservation program under the
National Historic Preservation Act and O.C.G.A § 12-3-50.1(c)(13).
(11) "State Historic Preservation Review
Board". The State Historic Preservation Review Board means a board designated
by the State Historic Preservation Officer and consisting of members
representing the professional fields of Georgia history, architectural history,
historical architecture, prehistoric and historic archaeology, and other
professional disciplines which may include citizen members.
(12) "Structure". A structure is a work made
up of interdependent and interrelated parts in a definite pattern of
organization. Constructed by man, it is often an engineering project large in
scale.
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