<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 4-5. - Creation of voluntary agricultural districts.</div>
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               (a)
               
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               <span class="ital">Implementation.</span> In order to implement the purposes stated in<a href="" data-chunk-id="PTIICOOR_CH4AG_S4-2PU" class="section-link" data-product-id="14529"> section 4-2</a>, this program provides for the creation of voluntary agricultural districts which
               meet the following standards:
               
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               (1)
               
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               The district shall contain a minimum of ten contiguous acres of qualified farmland;
               or
               
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               (2)
               
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               The district shall contain one or more qualified farms within areas designated by
               the advisory board.
               
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               (b)
               
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               <span class="ital">Education.</span> The county may take such action as it deems appropriate through the advisory board
               or other entities or individuals to encourage the formation of the districts and to
               further their purposes and objectives, including the implementation of a public information
               program to reasonably inform landowners of the agricultural district program.
               
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               (c)
               
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               <span class="ital">Withdrawal.</span> In the event that one or more participants in the district withdraw and the acreage
               in the district becomes less than the minimum acreage required or results in the remaining
               land being noncontiguous, a voluntary agricultural district will continue to exist
               so long as there is one qualifying farm.
               
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               (Code 1993, Â§ 14-175; Ord. of 8-6-2002, art. VI)
               
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