(b) The commissioner, with the advice of the board, shall establish the procedures and the criteria for listing on the state register consistent with the criteria established for listing on the national register and for classifying whether such places are primarily of national, state or local significance. The criteria for listing on the national register which shall be used as a guide for listing on the state register are as follows: The quality of significance in American history, architecture, archeology, and culture is present in districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects that possess integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association, and:
A. that are associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history; orB. that are associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; orC. that embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or that represent the work of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or that represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; orD. that have yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. Such procedures shall include opportunity for the public to make proposals for listing on the state register, the notification in advance of the listing to the agency preservation officers and/or municipal official having jurisdiction over the property and for the mailing of notification of pending action to the owner or owners of record of the property, if privately owned, at their last known address; provided however, that if one listing affects more than one property owner or where the owner or owners cannot be ascertained, the publishing of notice of pending listing in a newspaper of general circulation in the area where the property is located shall constitute adequate notice. Such procedures shall also provide for timely review and consideration of listing places on the state register which the United States Secretary of the Interior has designated as eligible for the national register. When a proposal for listing with sufficient supporting documentation is made by a municipal official, local historic preservation board or commission or a member of the public, a decision on listing the proposed property with an appropriate finding supporting the decision shall be issued in writing by the commissioner not more than one hundred eighty days after such proposal is received by the commissioner.