New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 2 - AGRICULTURE
Chapter 76 - STATE AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
Subchapter 11 - COMMITTEE ACQUISITION OF FARMLAND DEVELOPMENT EASEMENTS
Section 2:76-11.2 - Definitions

Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 2:76-11.2
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024

As used in this subchapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Board" means a county agriculture development board established pursuant to 4:1C-14 or a subregional agricultural retention board established pursuant to 4:1C-17.

"Committee" means the State Agriculture Development Committee established pursuant to 4:1C-4.

"Development easement" means an interest in land, less than fee simple title thereto, which interest represents the right to develop that land for all nonagricultural purposes and which interest may be transferred under laws authorizing the transfer of development potential.

"Farmland" means land identified as having prime or unique soils as classified by the Natural Resource Conservation Service in the United States Department of Agriculture, having soils of Statewide importance according to criteria adopted by the State Soil Conservation Committee, established pursuant to 4:24-3, or having soils of local importance as identified by local soil conservation districts, and which land qualifies for differential property taxation pursuant to the "Farmland Assessment Act of 1964," P.L. 1964, c.48 (54:4-23.1 et seq.), and any other land on the farm that is necessary to accommodate farm practices as determined by the State Agriculture Development Committee.

"Farmland preservation," "farmland preservation purposes" or "preservation of farmland" means the permanent preservation of farmland to support agricultural or horticultural production as the first priority use of that land.

"120-day commitment letter" means a document prepared by the committee and signed by the landowner and committee that requires the landowner to refrain from entering into any option agreement, contract of sale, or any other agreement affecting title to the subject farm for a period of 120 days during which time the Committee shall hire two independent appraisers to appraise the subject farm.

"Quality score" means the Committee's numeric total derived from the application of the criteria for evaluating a development easement application contained in 2:76-6.1 6.

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