PURPOSE: This rule provides definitions for the following regulations pertaining to the Historic Preservation Revolving Fund.

1. (1) As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the following terms shall mean:

   1. (A) Community or local community means the local city or county government, the local preservation organizations, other local organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce, Main Street or Merchants organization, or other group of concerned, preservation-minded citizens;
   2. (B) Department means the Department of Natural Resources;
   3. (C) Development means to realize the possibilities of a property by improving it or making it more effective;
   4. (D) Fund means the Historic Preservation Revolving Fund;
   5. (E) Historic property or property means any building, structure, district, area or site that is significant in the history, architecture, archaeology or culture of this state, its communities or this country, which is eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places;
   6. (F) Marketability or marketable means a property in demand by potential buyers for acquisition;
   7. (G) National Register means the National Register of Historic Places;
   8. (H) Project means the acquisition, stabilization, rehabilitation, development, marketing, maintenance or restoration, or a combination of these, of an historic property;
   9. (I) Rehabilitation means the act or process of returning a property to a state of utility through repair or alteration which makes possible an efficient contemporary use while preserving those portions or features of the property which are significant to its historical, architectural and cultural values or, in the alternative, those repairs, replacement or possible new construction necessary to make a structure habitable and reusable according to modern standards and building codes;
   10. (J) Restoration means the act or process of accurately recovering the form and details of a property and its setting as it appeared at a particular period of time by means of the removal of later work or by the replacement of missing earlier work;
   11. (K) Stabilization means the act or process of applying measures designed to reestablish a weather resistant enclosure and the structural stability of unsafe or deteriorated property while maintaining the essential form as it exists at present or, in the alternative, those repairs which are necessary to keep a structure from violating local building codes or being a public safety hazard; and
   12. (L) Staff means the department’s Historic Preservation Program staff.

AUTHORITY: section 253.035, RSMo Supp. 1993.* Original rule filed May 28, 1992, effective Jan. 15, 1993.

*Original authority: 253.035, RSMo 1961, amended 1967, 1983, 1993, 1995.