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New law extended needed protections to NC farms
Story Date: 7/7/2011
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Source: NC PORK COUNCIL, 7/6/11
NCPC joined the NC Farm Bureau, NC State Grange, NC Department of Agriculture and others in the agriculture community to fight for passage of a new law to protect farms from land grabs by municipalities as urbanization continues to invade our rural landscape.
In addition to shielding farms from forced annexation, the new law also protects farms from cities and towns exercising extraterritorial jurisdiction (which can extend from one to three miles outside the city limits) over the farm and imposing ordinances that are often incompatible with agricultural production.
Bona fide farm purposes in NC include the production livestock, dairy, poultry, crops, fruits, vegetables, ornamental and flowering plants. To get the protections provided by the new law, landowners have several options to prove a property is being used for farming purposes including providing a municipality with a copy of a farm sales tax exemption certificate, a copy of the owner's most recent federal income tax return or their Farm Identification Number.
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