<div class="chunk-title">Article VI. - Creation of Voluntary Agricultural Districts and Enhanced Voluntary Agricultural Districts</div>
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               A.
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               <span class="ital">Regions.</span> Craven County is hereby divided into eight regions as defined below:
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               1.
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               Township 1, Vanceboro
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               2.
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               Township 2, Hwy 17 N, Cayton, Fairfield Harbor
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               3.
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               Township 3, Cove City, Wintergreen Road
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               4.
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               Township 5, Havelock, Harlowe, Adams Creek
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               5.
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               Township 6, Hwy 70 E, Riverdale
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               6.
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               Township 7 James City
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               7.
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               Township 8, New Bern, Trent Woods
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               8.
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               Township 9, East of Core Creek, Cove City, Ft. Barnwell, Dover
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               B.
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               <span class="ital">Implementation.</span> In order to implement the purposes stated in Article III, this program provides for
               the creation of voluntary agricultural districts which meet the following standards,
               in addition to those standards contained in G.S. 106-737:
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               1.
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               The District or Enhanced District shall contain a minimum of ten contiguous acres
               of qualified farmland; provided however that as long as a property owner has a least
               one qualified farm of at least ten acres enrolled, said property owner may enroll
               other farmland less than ten acres as long as such other farmland meets those standards
               contained in G.S. 106-737; or
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               2.
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               The District or Enhanced District shall contain two or more qualified farms within
               areas designated by the Advisory Board.
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               All land enrolled in a region, defined in section A, above, shall be part of a single
               district, whether enrolled in the District or the Enhanced District. If a single farm
               has acreage in two or more regions, the farm shall participate in the district where
               the largest acreage is found. All land in a region as defined in section A, above,
               shall be treated as a single district whether enrolled in the District or the Enhanced
               District.
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               C.
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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 Enhanced
               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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               D.
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               <span class="ital">Addition and Withdrawal.</span>
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               1.
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               Qualifying farmland in a region with an existing district shall be added to the district
               as herein provided.
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               2.
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               In the event that one or more participants in the District or Enhanced District withdraw
               and the acreage in the District or Enhanced 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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               (Ord. of 1-5-2009, Art. VI; Ord. of 12-19-2011, Art. VI; Ord. of 7-16-2012)
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