The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall
have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
otherwise.
(1) Access account--Confidential transaction record
verifying an individual's identity and authority to access the restricted
information within the THSA database.
(2) Access agreement--A contract signed or otherwise
accepted by all users of RCRI, which states that they agree to comply
with the rules governing the use of RCRI, including the restricted
data contained within the THSA database.
(3) Access committee--The RCRI Access Committee. A
standing committee composed of the Director of the Archeology Division,
the Director of the History Programs Division, the State Marine Archeologist,
and the Director of the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory of
the University of Texas at Austin, or their designees, which has the
authority to determine an applicant's qualification for access to
restricted information, and the ability to grant or deny such access.
(4) Agency--A department, commission, board, office
or other federal or state governmental agency body.
(5) Applicant--An individual who submits an application
request for access to RCRI data sources, including the THSA database.
(6) Application--The personal data submitted by an
applicant being considered for access privileges to RCRI.
(7) Cultural resource information--Data pertaining
to cultural resources, including but not limited to site records,
reports, location information, notes, photographs, and maps.
(8) Atlas--The Texas Historic Sites Atlas (THSA).
(9) Cultural resource--A site or place where there
is physical evidence of past human activities, such as structures,
shipwrecks, artifacts or alterations of the natural environment, and
which is fifty or more years old.
(10) Curriculum vitae--Brief account of the applicant's
career and qualifications.
(11) Database--Structured information and data contained
in a computer file.
(12) Legitimate scientific or legal interest--An interest
based on specific research goals associated with professional archeological,
historical, or architectural research as defined in Chapter 191 of
the Texas Natural Resources Code, or ownership and management of sites
classified as restricted under this title.
(13) Political subdivision--A political subdivision
of the State, as defined in §191.003 of the Texas Natural Resources
Code.
(14) RCRI--Restricted Cultural Resource Information
contained within the THSA database, the libraries, files, documents
and maps held by the commission.
(15) RCRI user--An individual who accesses and uses
restricted information contained within the THSA database or within
the libraries, files, documents, and maps held by the commission.
(16) Site--A cultural resource location containing
physical evidence of either a prehistoric and/or historic occupation,
or activity, building, or structure, whether standing, in ruin, or
vanished, where the location itself maintains historical or archeological
integrity regardless of the integrity of any existing structure.
(17) Site location--Information concerning the location,
placement, or locality of a cultural resource.
(18) Site records--All data and information relating
to the character, condition, and location of any archeological site
or other cultural resource, and all data and information pertinent
to collections of material remains. Site records include, but are
not limited to, digital and hard copy images, photographs, maps, notes,
drawings, site data forms, documents, sound tapes, spatial imagery
and other forms of electronic data.
(19) Spatial imagery--Imagery used to illustrate and
indicate locations on the surface of the earth, including but not
limited to geographic maps; plotting; aerial, satellite and remote
sensing imagery; georeferenced images.
(20) Steward--A current member of the Texas Archeological
Stewardship Network.
(21) Texas Historic Sites Atlas--The electronic database
documenting historical and archeological sites and properties in the
state of Texas, survey locational data, as well as the computer database
server on which this information resides and the system that provides
access to this database through the Internet.
(22) THSA Coordinator--A member of the commission staff
appointed by the Executive Director to have primary responsibility
for operation and maintenance of THSA.
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