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ARTICLE II
DEFINITION OF TERMS
SEC. 3. Definition of Terms. - For purposes of this Act,
the following terms shall be defined as follows:
(a) "Adaptive reuse" shall refer to the utilization of
buildings, other built-structures and sites of value for purposes
other than that for which they were intended originally, in
order to conserve the site, their engineering integrity and
authenticity of design.
(b) "Anthropological area" shall refer to any place where
studies of specific ethno-linguistic groups are undertaken, the
properties of which are of value to our cultural heritage.
(c) "Antique" shall refer to a cultural property found
l?cally which is onB hundred (100) years in age, more or less,
t'he production of which has ceased.
(d) "Archaeological area" shall refer to any place,
whether above or under ground, underwater or at sea level,
containing fossils, artifacts and other cultural, geologIcal,
botanical, zoological materials which depIct and document
culturally relevant paleontological, prehistoric and/or historic
events.
(e) "ArchIves" shall refer to public and private records
in any format which have been selected for permanent
preservation because of their evidential, histoncal informational
value; otherwise known as archival materials collections or
archival holdings; the place (building/room/storage area) where
archival matenals are kept and preserved; and an organization
or agency or part thereof whose mam responsibility is to
appraise, arrange, describe, conserve, promote and make
archival materials available for reference and research, also
known as archival agency.
(f) "Built herItage" shall refer to architectural and
engineering structures such as, but not limited to, bridges,
government bwldings, houses of ancestry, traditional dwellings,
quartels, train stations, lighthouses, small ports, educational,