As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. (1) Action means any state activity, program, project, or undertaking or the approval, sanction, assistance, or support of any activity, policy, program, project, or undertaking, including but not limited to:

   1. (a) Recommendations or reports relating to legislation, including requests for appropriations;
   2. (b) New and continuing activities, programs, projects, or undertakings directly engaged in by agencies or supported in whole or in part through state contracts, grants, subsidies, loans, or other forms of funding assistance or involving a state lease, permit, license, certificate, or other entitlement of use;
   3. (c) The sale or transfer of state properties;
   4. (d) Comprehensive or areawide planning in which provisions may be made for any actions or which may result in a proposed action.
2. (2) Agency means any principal department of this state as provided in section 24-1-110.
3. (3) Comment means any notation, observation, remark, or recommendation made in response to a proposed agency action.
4. (4) Decision means the exercise of agency authority at any stage of an action where alterations might be made in the action to modify its impact upon cultural properties.
5. (5) Effect means any change in the quality of the historical, archaeological, or architectural character that qualified property for entry in the state register.
6. (6) Historical significance means having importance in the history, architecture, archaeology, or culture of this state or any political subdivision thereof or of the United States, as determined by the society.
7. (7) Local government means a municipality or a county.
8. (8) National register means the national register of historic places maintained pursuant to 54 U.S.C. sec. 302101 et seq.
9. (9) Preservation means the protection, enhancement, and maintenance of historic properties.
10. (10) Properties means the resources, including buildings, structures, objects, sites, districts, or areas, that are of historical significance.
11. (11) Review means the examination of information related to agency actions in order to assess the effect of such actions on properties listed in the state register.
12. (12) Society means the state historical society.
13. (13) State register means the state register of historic properties.
14. (14) Water supply structure means a head gate, ditch, canal, flume, reservoir, bypass, pipeline, conduit, well, pump, or other facility, structure, or device used to store, divert, transport, or control water, and any appurtenances thereto. Water supply structure includes any grouping of such structures.

Source: L. 75: Entire article added, p. 860, § 1, effective July 1. L. 2011: (14) added, (HB 11-1289), ch. 165, p. 568, § 1, effective August 10. L. 2024: (8) amended, (HB 24-1450), ch. 490, p. 3418, § 51, effective August 7.