New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 2 - AGRICULTURE
Chapter 76 - STATE AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
Subchapter 12 - NONPROFIT ACQUISITION PROJECTS: PROJECT ELIGIBILITY, CONDITIONS AND LIMITATIONS
Section 2:76-12.1 - Definitions

Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 2:76-12.1
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:

"Agricultural use" means the use of the land for common farmsite activities including, but not limited to: production, harvesting, storage, grading, packaging, processing and the wholesale and retail marketing of crops, plants, animals and other related commodities and the use and application of techniques and methods of soil preparation and management, fertilization, weed, disease and pest control, disposal of farm waste, irrigation, drainage and water management, and grazing.

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

"Development easement" means an interest in land, less than fee simple absolute 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 Resources 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.

"Garden State Preservation Trust" means the Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust established pursuant to section 20 of the Garden State Preservation Trust Act, 13:8C-1 et seq., P.L. 1999, c. 152.

"Nonprofit" means a nonprofit organization that is exempt from Federal taxation pursuant to section 501(c)(3) of the Federal Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3), and which qualifies for a grant pursuant to the Garden State Preservation Trust Act, 13:8C-42, P.L. 1999, c. 152.

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