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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA 1995 SESSION (REGULAR SESSION, 1986) RATIFIED BILL CHAPTE,R 1025 HOUSE BILL 1190 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH POLICIES TO pRESEHYE FLEISLAND. The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: Section 1.. Chapter 106 of the North Carolina General Statutes is amended by adding a new. Article 61 to read as follows: "Article 61.. "Preservation of rarmland.. "S 106 -735.. Short title and up P e "" (a) This Article shall be known as 'The Farmland Preservation Enabling Act'. (b) The p+irpose of this Article is to authorize counties to undertake a series of programs to encourage the preservation of farmland as defined berein. "S 106 -736. Farmland preservation Procirams authorized. - -A i county may by ordinance establish a farmland preserize9nalifyinq under this Article. The ordinance maw farms, as defined in G.S..106 -737, to take advantage of One Or more of the benefits authorized by the remaining sections of this Article.. "f 106 -737.. uali ing Earn and. - -In order for farmland to qualify under this Article, it aunt be real sent-asety that: (1) Is participating in the farm pre sent- use5valve taxation program established by G.S. . 105 -277.2 through 105 -277.7 or is otherwise determined by the county to meet all the qualifications of this program set forth in G.S..105- 277.3: (2) Is certified by the Soil Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture as being a farm on which e at least two - thirds of the land is composed of soils that (i) best suited for providing food, seed• fiber, forage, timber, and (iii) are oil seed crops, (ii) have good soil qualities, favorable for all major crops common to the n, an county d e the recland is located, (iv) have a favorable growing the available moisture needed to produce high yields an average of eight out of ten years; or on which at least two- thirds of the land has been actively used in agricultural, horticultural or forestry operations as defined in G. S. , 105 -277. 2 (1) , (2) , and (3) ensured then the date on daring each of the five previous pears, • vhich the deteraination must be made as to whether the land in question qualifies; (3) Is managed in osion accordance vith the that arelladdressedtlto Service defined r highly erodable land; and (4) Is the subject of a conservation agreement, as defined in G. S. 121 -35, between the county and the owner of such alperiodhof prohibits nonfars use or development of such land r at least tea years, except for the creation of not more than three lots that meet applicable county zcning and subdivision regulations.