<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 4-5. - Definitions.</div>
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               The following are defined for purposes of this chapter:
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               <span class="ital">Advisory board</span> means the Catawba County Agricultural Advisory Board.
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               <span class="ital">Agricultural land</span> means land devoted to agriculture.
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               <span class="ital">Agriculture</span> means the production of crops, vegetables, fruits, sod, ornamental or flowering plants,
               dairy, livestock, poultry, timber and other forms of agricultural products having
               a domestic or foreign market.
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               <span class="ital">Board of commissioners</span> means the Board of County Commissioners of Catawba County, North Carolina.
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               <span class="ital">Bona fide farm purposes</span>
               <span class="ital">includes the production of and activities relating or incidental to the production
                  of crops, grains, fruits, vegetables, ornamental and flowering plants, dairy, livestock,
                  poultry, and all other forms of agriculture, as defined by this chapter.</span>
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               <span class="ital">Chairperson</span> means chairperson of the Catawba County Agricultural Advisory Board.
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               <span class="ital">Conservation agreement</span> means an agreement as defined in G.S. 121-35.
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               <span class="ital">County</span> means Catawba County, North Carolina.
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               <span class="ital">County clerk</span> means the clerk to the board of commissioners.
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               <span class="ital">District</span> or <span class="ital">agricultural district</span> means voluntary agricultural district as established by this chapter.
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               <span class="ital">Enhanced district</span> means enhanced voluntary agricultural district as established by this chapter.
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               <span class="ital">Extension director</span> means the director of the Catawba County Cooperative Extension.
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               <span class="ital">Farm</span> or <span class="ital">farm land</span> means land used for bona fide farm purposes, as defined by this chapter.
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               <span class="ital">Farming</span> means engaged in the production of crops, vegetables, fruits, sod, ornamental or
               flowering plants, dairy, livestock, poultry, timber and other forms of agricultural
               products having a domestic or foreign market.
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               <span class="ital">Forestland</span> means land covered with forest or set aside for the cultivation of forests or timber.
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               <span class="ital">Horticultural land</span> means land commercially used for the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or the raising
               of fruit or nuts, vegetables, flowers or ornamental plants.
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               <span class="ital">Project</span> means water or sewer line infrastructure or other facilities/improvements that may
               be funded by county government for public benefit.
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               <span class="ital">Qualifying farm or farmland</span> means farmland which contain a minimum of five total acres of horticultural land,
               ten total acres of agricultural land or 20 total acres of forestland.
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               <span class="ital">Voluntary agricultural district program</span> or <span class="ital">program</span> means any program established by the board of commissioners designed to accomplish
               the purposes set out in <a href="" data-chunk-id="COOR_CH4AGDI_ARTIINGE_S4-4PU" class="section-link" data-product-id="13891">section 4-4</a> of this chapter.
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               (Ord. No. 2008-16, 10-20-2008; Ord. No. 2022-26, 12-19-2022)
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