<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 4-110. - Enhanced district benefits.</div>
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               Land enrolled in the enhanced district program is entitled to all the benefits available
               under the district program and to the following additional benefits:
               
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                  (1)
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                  <span class="ital">Sale of nonfarm products.</span> Landowners participating in the enhanced district may receive up to 25 percent of
                  gross sales from the sale of nonfarm products on an annual basis and still qualify
                  as a bona fide farm that is exempt from county zoning regulations as defined pursuant
                  to G.S. 160D-903(a). For purposes of G.S. 160D-903(a), the production of any nonfarm
                  product that the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services recognizes as a "Goodness
                  Grows in North Carolina" product that is produced on a farm that is subject to a conservation
                  agreement under G.S. 106-743.2 is a bona fide farm purpose. A farmer seeking to benefit
                  from this subsection shall have the burden of establishing that the property's sale
                  of nonfarm products did not exceed 25 percent of its gross sales.
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                  (2)
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                  <span class="ital">Agricultural cost share program.</span> Landowners participating in the enhanced district are eligible under G.S. 106-850(b)(9).
                  State funding shall be limited to 90 percent of the average cost for each practice
                  with the assisted farmer providing ten percent of the cost for each practice with
                  the assisted farmer providing ten percent of the cost, which may include in-kind support
                  of the practice, with a maximum of $100,000.00 per year to each applicant.
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                  (3)
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                  <span class="ital">Priority consideration.</span> State departments, institutions or agencies that award grants to farmers are encouraged
                  to give priority consideration to landowners participating in enhanced districts.
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               (Ord. No. 2008-16, 10-20-2008; Ord. No. 2022-26, 12-19-2022)
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