Ch. 57 LAWS OF MARYLAND

(D) "COMMITTEE" MEANS THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON
ARCHAEOLOGY.

(E) "CONTROLS" MEANS HAVING RIGHTS THAT ENABLE THE STATE
TO—EXERCISE SOME LEVEL OF ON SITE POSSESSORY INTEREST
INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, RIGHTS OF POSSESSION GRANTED
BY OPERATION OF LAW, LEASES, RIGHTS OF WAY, CONTRACTS OR
EASEMENTS, EXCEPT FOR CONSERVATION EASEMENTS UNDER § 2 118 OF
THE REAL PROPERTY ARTICLE PURSUANT TO A LEASE, OPTION
CONTRACT, OR PURCHASE CONTRACT.

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

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

[(e)] (H) "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)] (O "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)] (J) "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)] (K) "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)] (L) "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)] (M) "MHT Grant Fund" means the Historic Preservation Grant Fund of
the Trust created under § 5-613 of this subtitle.

[(k)] (N) "MHT Grant Program" means the Historic Preservation Grant
Program of the Trust created pursuant to § 5-613 of this subtitle.

[(1)] (O) "MHT Loan Fund" means the Historic Preservation Loan Fund of the
Trust created under § 5-612 of this subtitle.

[(m)] (P) "MHT Loan Program" means the Historic Preservation Loan Program
of the Trust created pursuant to § 5-612 of this subtitle.

[(n)] (Q) "Nonprofit organization" means, for purposes of §§ 5-612 and 5-613
of this subtitle, a corporation, foundation, governmental entity, or other legal entity, no

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