New Hampshire Revised Statutes 227-C:7 – Permits Issued for State Lands and Waters
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I. To assure proper protection, investigation, interpretation and management of historic resources, and the continued availability of historic resources for scientific study by qualified persons, agencies or institutions, the state, acting through the commissioner, reserves to itself the exclusive right and privilege to conduct, or cause to be conducted, field investigations of historic resources that involve the alteration of the surface or subsurface of the resource and removal of any surface or subsurface objects.
II. The commissioner shall establish categories of field investigations that may yield or alter historic resources and qualification criteria for professional and avocational archeologists for all categories of field investigations.
III. For purposes of determining proper persons to whom permits may be issued, the original discoverer of a previously unrecorded historic resource shall be conclusively presumed to be an appropriate person to actively participate in all phases of subsequent field investigations and shall be eligible to receive a permit under the rules adopted by the commissioner, except as provided in N.H. Rev. Stat. § 227-C:8-a through 8-g relative to the discovery of human remains.
IV. The division shall issue a permit to any person, agency, or institution upon application to conduct field investigations in accordance with the rules adopted by the office, except as provided in N.H. Rev. Stat. § 227-C:8-a through 8-g relative to the discovery of human remains.
V. The commissioner may conduct hearings upon receiving written complaint from any person, including a council member, concerning the issuance, denial of issuance, revocation, suspension, extension, or refusal of extension of any permit issued under this chapter.
II. The commissioner shall establish categories of field investigations that may yield or alter historic resources and qualification criteria for professional and avocational archeologists for all categories of field investigations.
Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 227-C:7
- Commissioner: means the commissioner of the department of natural and cultural resources or his designee. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 227-C:1
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- Council: means the state historical resources council. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 227-C:1
- Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
- Historic resource: means :
(a) Any historic property which has been listed in the New Hampshire state register of historic places or has been determined eligible for the New Hampshire state register of historic places by the division of historical resources or which has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places or has been determined by the keeper of the register to be eligible for the National Register using the criteria for evaluation in 36 C. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 227-C:1 - Human remains: or "remains" means any part of the body of deceased human being in any stage of decomposition, together with any artifacts or other materials known or reliably assumed to have been on or interred with the deceased human being. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 227-C:1
- Office: means the state historic preservation office, also known as the division of historical resources, department of natural and cultural resources. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 227-C:1
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
- remains: means any part of the body of deceased human being in any stage of decomposition, together with any artifacts or other materials known or reliably assumed to have been on or interred with the deceased human being. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 227-C:1
- state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
III. For purposes of determining proper persons to whom permits may be issued, the original discoverer of a previously unrecorded historic resource shall be conclusively presumed to be an appropriate person to actively participate in all phases of subsequent field investigations and shall be eligible to receive a permit under the rules adopted by the commissioner, except as provided in N.H. Rev. Stat. § 227-C:8-a through 8-g relative to the discovery of human remains.
IV. The division shall issue a permit to any person, agency, or institution upon application to conduct field investigations in accordance with the rules adopted by the office, except as provided in N.H. Rev. Stat. § 227-C:8-a through 8-g relative to the discovery of human remains.
V. The commissioner may conduct hearings upon receiving written complaint from any person, including a council member, concerning the issuance, denial of issuance, revocation, suspension, extension, or refusal of extension of any permit issued under this chapter.