<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 6-23. - Creation of voluntary agricultural districts.</div>
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               (a)
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               <span class="ital">Regions.</span> The county is hereby divided into six regions as defined below:
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               (1)
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               Great Swamp, Buck Swamp, Fork townships;
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               (2)
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               Nahunta, Pikeville, Stoney Creek townships;
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               (3)
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               Goldsboro, Saulston, New Hope townships;
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               (4)
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               Indian Springs township;
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               (5)
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               Brogden township;
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               (6)
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               Grantham township.
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               (b)
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               <span class="ital">Implementation.</span> In order to implement the purposes stated in article III of this chapter, 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 when initially established shall contain a minimum of 100 contiguous
               acres of qualified farmland; or shall contain three or more qualified tracts of land
               within one-half miles of each other which contain a total of at least 100 acres.
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               (2)
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               The county tax office identifies the tract of land as agriculture.
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               All land enrolled in a region, defined in subsection (a) of this section, shall be
               part of a single 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.
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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 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 withdraw and this results
               in the remaining land being noncontiguous, a voluntary agricultural district will
               continue to exist so long as there is at a minimum 100 remaining acres.
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               (Ord. of 8-3-2004, art. VI)
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