CHAPTER 12
Historic Preservation
Section 3704. Establishment of Historic Property, Landmarks, and Districts
ss 3704 Establishment of Historic Properties, Landmarks and Districts
A. Characteristics: Any site, building, group of buildings, structure or object may be designated for preservation as an historic property, landmark or district if it meets one or more of the criteria established for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places, which are as follows:
1. The quality of significance in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering and culture on the local, state, and national levels is present in districts, sites buildings, structures and objects that possess integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association, and:
a. that are associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history or;
b. are associated with the lives of persons significant in our past or;
c. That embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period or method of construction, or that represent the work of a master, or that represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction or;
d. that have yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history.
2. Ordinarily, cemeteries, birthplaces or graves of historical figures, properties owned by religious institutions or used for religious purposes, structures that have been moved from properties primarily commemorative in nature, and properties that have achieved significance within the past 50 years shall not be considered eligible for the National Register. However, such properties will qualify if they are integral parts of districts that do meet the criteria or if they fall within the following categories:
a. a religious property deriving primary significance from architectural or artistic distinction of historic importance or:
b. a building or structure removed from its original location but which is significant primarily for architectural value, or which is the surviving structure most importantly associated with a historic person or event or;
c. A birthplace or grave of an historical figure of outstanding importance if there is no other appropriate site or building directly associated with this productive life or;
d. a cemetery that derives its primary significance from graves of persons of transcendent importance, from age, from distinctive design features, or from association with historic events or;
e. a reconstructed building when accurately execute in a suitable environment and presented in a dignified manner as part of a restoration master plan, and when no other building or structure with the same association has survived or;
f. a property primarily commemorative in intent if design, age, tradition, or symbolic value has invested it with its own historic significance;
g. a property achieving significance within the past 50 years if it is of exceptional importance.
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