The bill amends the definitions within the Cultural Properties Act and the Cultural Properties Protection Act to explicitly exempt "jetty jacks" from being classified as cultural properties. A "jetty jack" is defined as a jack made of steel and heavy wire, installed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation and the United States Army Corps of Engineers for river bank maintenance. The amendments clarify that cultural properties do not include jetty jacks, thereby removing them from the protections and regulations typically afforded to cultural properties under these acts.

In the amendments, the term "cultural property" is modified to include the exclusion of jetty jacks, and a new definition for "jetty jack" is introduced. Additionally, other definitions within the acts are updated for clarity, including terms such as "registered cultural property," "official register," and "state land." These changes aim to streamline the legal framework surrounding cultural properties while ensuring that specific infrastructure related to river bank maintenance is not subject to the same regulations as historically significant structures or sites.

Statutes affected:
introduced version: 18-6-3, 18-6A-2