Ch. 422

LAWS OF MARYLAND

(c)   "Council" means the Maryland Advisory Council on
Historic Preservation.

(d)   "Director" means the Director of the Maryland
Historical Trust.

(e)   "Embedded" means firmly affixed in submerged lands such
that the use of tools of excavation is required in order to move
the bottom sediments to gain access to the archaeological
historic property and any part thereof.

(f)   "Financial assistance" means an action by the State or
a State unit to award grants, loans, loan guarantees, or
insurance to a public or private entity to finance, either in
part or in whole, an undertaking.

(g)   "Governor's Consulting Committee on the National
Register of Historic Places" means the committee that reviews
nominations to the National Register under the National Historic
Preservation Act of 1966.

(h) "Historic property" means a district, site, building,
structure, MONUMENT, or object significant in the prehistory,
history, upland and underwater archeology, architecture,
engineering, and culture of the State, including artifacts,
records, and remains related to a district, site, building,
structure, or object.

(I) "LOCAL JURISDICTION" MEANS, FOR PURPOSES OF §§ 5-612
AND 5-613 OF THIS SUBTITLE, ANY OF THE 23 COUNTIES OF THE STATE,
THE CITY OF BALTIMORE, ANY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION IN MARYLAND
SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE XI-E OF THE MARYLAND
-CONSTITUTION, AND ANY DULY AUTHORIZED AGENCY OR INSTRUMENTALITY
OF THE LOCAL JURISDICTION.

(J) "MHT GRANT FUND" MEANS THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION GRANT
FUND OF THE TRUST CREATED UNDER § 5-613 OF THIS SUBTITLE.

(K) "MHT GRANT PROGRAM" MEANS THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION
GRANT PROGRAM OF THE TRUST CREATED PURSUANT TO § 5-613 OF THIS
SUBTITLE.

(L) "MHT LOAN FUND" MEANS THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION LOAN
FUND OF THE TRUST CREATED UNDER § 5-612 OF THIS SUBTITLE.

(M) "MHT LOAN PROGRAM" MEANS THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION LOAN
PROGRAM OF THE TRUST CREATED PURSUANT TO § 5-612 OF THIS
SUBTITLE.

(N) "NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION" MEANS, FOR PURPOSES OF §§
5-612 AND 5-613 OF THIS SUBTITLE, A CORPORATION, FOUNDATION,
GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY, OR OTHER LEGAL ENTITY, NO PART OF THE NET

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