2006 Utah Code - 9-8-302 — Definitions.

     9-8-302.   Definitions.
     As used in this part and Part 4, Historic Sites:
     (1) "Agency" means a department, division, office, bureau, board, commission, or other administrative unit of the state.
     (2) "Antiquities Section" means the Antiquities Section of the Division of State History created in Section 9-8-304.
     (3) "Archaeological resources" means all material remains and their associations, recoverable or discoverable through excavation or survey, that provide information pertaining to the historic or prehistoric peoples of the state.
     (4) "Collection" means a specimen and the associated records documenting the specimen and its recovery.
     (5) "Curation" means management and care of collections according to standard professional museum practice, which may include inventorying, accessioning, labeling, cataloging, identifying, evaluating, documenting, storing, maintaining, periodically inspecting, cleaning, stabilizing, conserving, exhibiting, exchanging, or otherwise disposing of original collections or reproductions, and providing access to and facilities for studying collections.
     (6) "Curation facility" is defined as provided in Section 53B-17-603.
     (7) "Division" means the Division of State History created in Section 9-8-201.
     (8) "Excavate" means the recovery of archaeological resources.
     (9) "Historic property" means any prehistoric or historic district, site, building, structure, or specimen included in, or eligible for inclusion in, the National Register of Historic Places or the State Register.
     (10) "Museum" means the Utah Museum of Natural History.
     (11) "Principal investigator" means the individual with overall administrative responsibility for the survey or excavation project authorized by the permit.
     (12) "Repository" is defined as provided in Section 53B-17-603.
     (13) "School and institutional trust lands" are those properties defined in Section 53C-1-103.
     (14) "Site" means any petroglyphs, pictographs, structural remains, or geographic location that is the source of archaeological resources or specimens.
     (15) "Specimen" means all man-made artifacts and remains of an archaeological or anthropological nature found on or below the surface of the earth, excluding structural remains.
     (16) "State historic preservation officer" means that position mentioned in 16 U.S.C. Sec. 470a of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended.
     (17) "Survey" means a surface investigation for archaeological resources that may include:
     (a) insubstantial surface collection of archaeological resources; and
     (b) limited subsurface testing that disturbs no more of a site than is necessary to determine the nature and extent of the archaeological resources or whether the site is a historic property.

Amended by Chapter 292, 2006 General Session