RSA 227-C:7 Permits Issued for State Lands and Waters.

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 dete