EXEMPT JETTY JACK FROM CULTURAL PROPERTY ACT

SB0098

SENATE BILL 98

57th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2026

INTRODUCED BY

Antonio Maestas
and
Linda M. López

AN ACT

RELATING TO PROPERTY; EXEMPTING JETTY JACKS FROM THE PROVISIONS
OF THE CULTURAL PROPERTIES ACT AND THE CULTURAL PROPERTIES
PROTECTION ACT.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

SECTION 1.
Section 18-6-3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1969,
Chapter 223, Section 3, as amended) is amended to read:

"18-6-3. DEFINITIONS.--As used in the Cultural Properties
Act:

A. "committee" means the cultural properties review
committee;

B. "cultural property" means a structure, place,
site or object having historic, archaeological, scientific,
architectural or other cultural significance
and does not
include a jetty jack;

C. "jetty jack" means a jack made of steel and
heavy wire installed by the United States bureau of reclamation
and United States army corps of engineers for river bank
maintenance;

[
C.
]
D.
"registered cultural property" means a
cultural property that has been placed on the official register
on either a permanent or temporary basis by the committee;

[
D.
]
E.
"official register" means the New Mexico
register of cultural properties maintained by the committee for
the purpose of recording cultural properties deemed worthy of
preservation; and

[
E.
]
F.
"state land" means property owned,
controlled or operated by a department, agency, institution or
political subdivision of the state."

SECTION 2.
Section 18-6A-2 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1993,
Chapter 176, Section 2, as amended) is amended to read:

"18-6A-2. DEFINITIONS.--As used in the Cultural
Properties Protection Act:

A. "committee" means the cultural properties review
committee;

B. "cultural property" means a structure, place,
site or object having historic, archaeological, scientific,
architectural or other cultural significance
and does not
include a jetty jack
;

C. "division" means the historic preservation
division of the cultural affairs department;

D. "fund" means the cultural properties restoration
fund;

E. "interpretation" means the inventory,
registration, mapping and analysis of cultural properties and
public educational programs designed to prevent the loss of
cultural properties;

F. "jetty jack" means a jack made of steel and
heavy wire installed by the United States bureau of reclamation
and United States army corps of engineers for river bank
maintenance;

[
F.
]
G.
"officer" means the state historic
preservation officer;

[
G.
]
H.
"preservation" means sustaining the
existing form, integrity and material of a cultural property or
the existing form and vegetative cover of a cultural property
and may include protective maintenance or stabilization where
necessary in the case of archaeological sites;

[
H.
]
I.
"professional survey" means an
archaeological or architectural survey;

[
I.
]
J.
"protection" means safeguarding the
physical condition or environment of a cultural property from
deterioration or damage caused by weather or other natural,
animal or human intrusions;

[
J.
]
K.
"restoration" means recovering the general
historic appearance of a cultural property or the form and
details of an object or structure by removing incompatible
natural or human-caused accretions and replacing missing
elements as appropriate;

[
K.
]
L.
"stabilization" means reestablishing the
structural stability or weather-resistant condition of a
cultural property or arresting deterioration that may lead to
structural failure;

[
L.
]
M.
"state agency" means a department, agency,
institution or political subdivision of the state; and

[
M.
]
N.
"state land" means property owned,
controlled or operated by a state agency."

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