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` Ei6 <br /> - recommendation to the decision-making body of the agency <br /> proposing acquisition. <br /> (2) The board designated to hold the hearing shall have 30 <br /> ti days after r ceiving a request under this section to hold the <br /> public hearing and submit its findings and recommendations to the <br /> agency. <br /> (3) The a ,enc y may not formally initiat.: a condemnation action <br /> while the p'. _posed condemnation is proper_ °i before the advisory <br /> board within these time limitations. <br /> "4 106-741 . Record notice of prroximiitty to farmlands.--- (a) Any <br /> county that has' a computerized land records system may require <br /> that such records include some form of notice reasonably <br /> -calculated to alert a person researching the title of a <br /> particular tract that such tract is located within one-half mile <br /> of a poultry, swine, or dairy qualifying farm or within 600 feet <br /> of any otL:_r qualifying farm or wit;iin one-half mile of a <br /> voluntary aq.:icultural district. <br /> (b) In o event shall the county or any of its officers, <br /> employees, .:;r agents be held liable in damages for any <br /> misfeasance, malfeasance, or nonfeasance occurring in good faith <br /> in connection with the duties or obligations imposed by any <br /> ordinance adopted under subsection (a) . <br /> (c) In no event shall any cause of action arise out of the <br /> failure of a person researching the title of a particular tract <br /> to report ..o any person the proximity of the tract to a <br /> qualifying f Lzm or voluntary agricultural district as, defined in <br /> this Article. <br /> "4 106-742. Waiver of water and sewer assessments.-- (a) A <br /> county may provide by ordinance that' its water and sewer <br /> assessments be held in abeyance, with or without interest, for <br /> farms, whethez inside or outside of a voluntary agricultural <br /> district, until improvements on such property are connected to <br /> the water ur sewer system for which the assessment was made. <br /> (b) The -ordinance may provide that, when the period of <br /> abeyance en. s, the assessment is payable in accordance with the <br /> terms set out in the assessment resolution. <br /> (c) Statu:..:s of limitations are suspended during the time that <br /> any assessmc =:t is held in abeyance without interest. <br /> (d) If ordinance is adopted under this section, then the <br /> assessment procedures followed under Article 9 of Chapter 153A <br /> shall conform to the terms of this ordinance with respect to <br /> qualifying farms that entered into conservation agreements while <br /> such ordinance was in effect. <br /> (e) Nothing in this section is intended to diminish the <br /> authority of counties to hold assessments in abeyance under G. S. <br /> 153A-201. <br /> "4 106-743 ; Count/ ordinances.--A county adopting an ordinance <br /> under this Article may consult with the North Carolina <br /> Commissioner of Agriculture or his staff before adoption, and <br /> shall record the ordinance with the Commissioner' s office after <br /> adoption. . Thereafter, the county shall submit to the <br /> Commissioner at least once a year, a written report including the <br /> status , progress and activities of the county' s farmland <br /> preservation program under this Article. " <br /> House sill 1190 3 <br />