<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 14-91. - Land use incentives for VAD participation.</div>
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               (a)
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               <span class="ital">Purpose.</span> The purpose of this section is to help meet the needs of agriculture as an industry
               and prevent conflicts between voluntary agricultural district participants and non-farm
               landowners in proximity to districts.
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               (b)
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               <span class="ital">Procedure.</span>
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               (1)
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               Waiver of water and sewer assessments.
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               a.
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               <span class="ital">Purpose.</span> The purpose of this section is to help mitigate the financial impacts on farmers
               of some local and state capital investments unused by such farmers.
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               b.
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               <span class="ital">Procedure.</span>
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               1.
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               Landowner(s) belonging to voluntary agricultural districts shall not be assessed for,
               or required to connect to water and/or sewer systems which are assessed by the County
               of Durham.
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               2.
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               Water and sewer assessments will be held in abeyance, without interest, for farms
               inside of a voluntary agricultural district, until improvements on such property are
               connected to the water or sewer system for which the assessment was made.
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               3.
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               When the period of abeyance ends, the assessment is payable in accordance with the
               terms set out in the assessment resolution.
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               4.
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               Assessment procedures followed under G.S. ch. 153A, art. 9 shall conform to the terms
               of this article with respect to qualifying farms that entered into conservation agreements
               while such ordinance was in effect.
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               5.
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               Nothing in this section is intended to diminish the authority of the county to hold
               assessments in abeyance under G.S. 153A-201.
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               (2)
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               The county shall not spend monies to convert land to non-farm uses in voluntary agricultural
               districts unless no feasible alternative to such conversion exists.
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               (Ord. of 5-13-96, Â§ A-9; Ord. of 5-27-03)
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