SB 98

                                1  SENATE BILL 98
                                2      57TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 2026
                                3  INTRODUCED BY
                                4  Antonio Maestas and Linda M. López
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                                10  AN ACT
                                11   RELATING TO PROPERTY; EXEMPTING JETTY JACKS FROM THE PROVISIONS
                                12   OF THE CULTURAL PROPERTIES ACT AND THE CULTURAL PROPERTIES
                                13   PROTECTION ACT.
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                                15   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
                                16  SECTION 1.     Section 18-6-3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1969,
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                                17   Chapter 223, Section 3, as amended) is amended to read:
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                                18  "18-6-3.     DEFINITIONS.--As used in the Cultural Properties
                                19   Act:
                                20  A.   "committee" means the cultural properties review
                                21   committee;
                                22  B.   "cultural property" means a structure, place,
                                23   site or object having historic, archaeological, scientific,
                                24   architectural or other cultural significance and does not
                                25   include a jetty jack;
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                                1  C.   "jetty jack" means a jack made of steel and
                                2    heavy wire installed by the United States bureau of reclamation
                                3    and United States army corps of engineers for river bank
                                4    maintenance;
                                5  [C.] D.   "registered cultural property" means a
                                6    cultural property that has been placed on the official register
                                7    on either a permanent or temporary basis by the committee;
                                8  [D.] E.   "official register" means the New Mexico
                                9    register of cultural properties maintained by the committee for
                                10   the purpose of recording cultural properties deemed worthy of
                                11   preservation; and
                                12  [E.] F.   "state land" means property owned,
                                13   controlled or operated by a department, agency, institution or
                                14   political subdivision of the state."
                                15        SECTION 2.     Section 18-6A-2 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1993,
                                16   Chapter 176, Section 2, as amended) is amended to read:
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                                17        "18-6A-2.     DEFINITIONS.--As used in the Cultural
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                                18   Properties Protection Act:
                                19  A.   "committee" means the cultural properties review
                                20   committee;
                                21  B.   "cultural property" means a structure, place,
                                22   site or object having historic, archaeological, scientific,
                                23   architectural or other cultural significance and does not
                                24   include a jetty jack;
                                25  C.   "division" means the historic preservation
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                                1    division of the cultural affairs department;
                                2  D.   "fund" means the cultural properties restoration
                                3    fund;
                                4  E.   "interpretation" means the inventory,
                                5    registration, mapping and analysis of cultural properties and
                                6    public educational programs designed to prevent the loss of
                                7    cultural properties;
                                8  F.   "jetty jack" means a jack made of steel and
                                9    heavy wire installed by the United States bureau of reclamation
                                10   and United States army corps of engineers for river bank
                                11   maintenance;
                                12  [F.] G.   "officer" means the state historic
                                13   preservation officer;
                                14  [G.] H.   "preservation" means sustaining the
                                15   existing form, integrity and material of a cultural property or
                                16   the existing form and vegetative cover of a cultural property
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                                17   and may include protective maintenance or stabilization where
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                                18   necessary in the case of archaeological sites;
                                19  [H.] I.   "professional survey" means an
                                20   archaeological or architectural survey;
                                21  [I.] J.   "protection" means safeguarding the
                                22   physical condition or environment of a cultural property from
                                23   deterioration or damage caused by weather or other natural,
                                24   animal or human intrusions;
                                25  [J.] K.   "restoration" means recovering the general
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                                1    historic appearance of a cultural property or the form and
                                2    details of an object or structure by removing incompatible
                                3    natural or human-caused accretions and replacing missing
                                4    elements as appropriate;
                                5  [K.] L.   "stabilization" means reestablishing the
                                6    structural stability or weather-resistant condition of a
                                7    cultural property or arresting deterioration that may lead to
                                8    structural failure;
                                9  [L.] M.   "state agency" means a department, agency,
                                10   institution or political subdivision of the state; and
                                11  [M.] N.   "state land" means property owned,
                                12   controlled or operated by a state agency."
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