North Carolina § 121-51 - Definitions.

§ 121-51. Definitions.

The following definitions apply in this Article: Address. - A description of the location of the lender as shown on a museum or archives repository's records that is sufficient for delivery by mail. Archives repository. - An archives repository shall have the same meaning as the term "North Carolina State Archives" as defined in G.S. 121-2(7). Loan. - The placement of property with a museum or archives repository that is not accompanied by a transfer of title of the property to the museum or archives repository and for which there is some record that the owner intended to retain title to the property. The term "loan" does not include transfers between museums, between archives repositories, or between museums and archives repositories unless the transferring institution specifically provides in writing that the transfer is a loan under this Article. Museum. - A museum shall include any museum or historic site administered by the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, including the term "North Carolina Museum of History" as defined in G.S. 121-2(6). Property. - A tangible object under the care of a museum or archives repository that has intrinsic historic, artistic, scientific, educational, or cultural value. Valid claim. - A written notice of intent to preserve an interest in property on loan to a museum or archives repository, including all of the following: A description of the property adequate to enable the museum or archives repository to identify the property. Documentation sufficient to establish the claimant as owner of the property. A statement attesting to the truth, to the best of the signer's knowledge, of all information included in or with the notice. The signature, under penalty of perjury, of the claimant or a person authorized to act on behalf of the claimant. History (2015-218, s. 2; 2015-241, s. 14.30(c).) Editor's Note. - Session Laws 2015-241, s. 14.30(c), provides: "The Department of Environment and Natural Resources is renamed the Department of Environmental Quality. All references to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources or the Department of Cultural Resources in acts of the 2015 General Assembly taking effect on or after the effective date of this section and in the Committee Report described in Section 33.2 of this act shall be construed to refer to the Department of Environmental Quality or the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, respectively. References to duties or requirements of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources with respect to entities transferred under subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall be construed as duties or requirements of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources as reorganized by this section." Pursuant to this authority, "Department of Natural and Cultural Resources" was substituted for "Department of Cultural Resources" in (4). Session Laws 2015-241, s. 1.1, provides: "This act shall be known as 'The Current Operations and Capital Improvements Appropriations Act of 2015.'" Session Laws 2015-241, s. 33.4, provides: "Except for statutory changes or other provisions that clearly indicate an intention to have effects beyond the 2015-2017 fiscal biennium, the textual provisions of this act apply only to funds appropriated for, and activities occurring during, the 2015-2017 fiscal biennium." Session Laws 2015-241, s. 33.6, is a severability clause.