RSA 227-C:1 Definitions.

As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings unless a contrary meaning shall appear in the context:
I. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the department of natural and cultural resources or his designee.
II. "Council" means the state historical resources council.
III. "Department" means the department of natural and cultural resources.
IV. "Field investigation" means the search for, identification of, and evaluation of historic resources, and the study of the traces of human culture at any land or underwater historic property, by means of inspection, surveying, digging, excavating, or removing surface or subsurface objects, or going onto a site with that intent.
V. "Historic preservation" means the resea