2013 Maryland Code
STATE FINANCE AND PROCUREMENT
§ 5A-301 - Definitions

(a) In general. -- In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b) Director. -- "Director" means the Director of the Maryland Historical Trust.

(c) Financial assistance. -- "Financial assistance" means action by the State or a State unit to award grants, loans, loan guarantees, or insurance to a public or private entity to finance, wholly or partly, an undertaking.

(d) Governmental unit. -- "Governmental unit" means an agency, authority, board, commission, council, office, or other unit or instrumentality of the government of the State or of a political subdivision of the State.

(e) Historic property. --

(1) "Historic property" means a district, site, building, structure, monument, or object significant to:

(i) the prehistory or history of the State; or

(ii) the upland and underwater archaeology, architecture, engineering, or culture of the State.

(2) "Historic property" includes related artifacts, records, and remains.

(f) Nonprofit organization. -- "Nonprofit organization" means a corporation, foundation, or other legal entity, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of a private shareholder or individual holding an interest in the entity.

(g) Political subdivision. -- "Political subdivision" means a county or municipal corporation of the State.

(h) Preservation or historic preservation. -- "Preservation" or "historic preservation" means the identification, evaluation, recordation, documentation, curation, acquisition, protection, management, rehabilitation, restoration, stabilization, maintenance, and reconstruction of a historic property.

(i) State Historic Preservation Officer. -- "State Historic Preservation Officer" means the individual who administers the State Historic Preservation Program under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, 16 U.S.C. §§ 470-470mm.

(j) State unit. -- "State unit" has the meaning stated in § 11-101 of the State Government Article.

(k) Submerged. -- "Submerged" means beneath or substantially beneath water.

(l) Terrestrial. -- "Terrestrial" means relating to land above the mean high tide line and above nontidal waters.

(m) Trust. -- "Trust" means the Maryland Historical Trust.

(n) Undertaking. -- "Undertaking" means a project that involves or may result in building construction, building alteration, or land disturbance.