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Massachusetts passed the first right to farm law in 1979. [7] In 1979, Pilesgrove Township, New Jersey enacted the state's first right-to-farm ordinance, protecting farming as a "natural right hereby ordained to exist as a permitted use everywhere in the Township of Pilesgrove." [8] By 2015, every state has a similar law, but the details can ...
The Agriculture Retention and Development Act was created as part of New Jersey's efforts to counteract the loss of farmland in the state. The legislation formed the basis needed for the state to purchase the easements of New Jersey farms in order to ensure they remain as farms, and could never be sold for housing or for non-farming commercial development.
Peter Southway of Springhouse Creamery in Wantage, left, makes a point on Aug. 10, 2023 with Rep. Josh Gottheimer, NJ-5, right, as Holly Systema of Windy Flats Farm in Wantage, and a member of the ...
The act was supplemented with the Agriculture Retention and Development Act of 1981 which put permanent deed restrictions on the sale of farm properties. The Farmland Assessment Act continues today allowing tax exemptions for property 5 acres or more in size devoted to farmland or woodland.
MORRIS TWP. - Much has been accomplished since the Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act was approved in 2004 to protect the critical water supplies northwest New Jersey holds for 5.4 ...
A new New Jersey Legislature will soon be sworn in. What should be the 2024 legislative agenda? Education reform, health care, property taxes: NJ Legislature must act in 2024
Right to repair is a legal right for owners of devices and equipment to freely modify and repair products such as automobiles, electronics, and farm equipment. Right to repair may also refer to the social movement of citizens putting pressure on their governments to enact laws protecting a right to repair.
The Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-127), known informally as the Freedom to Farm Act, the FAIR Act, or the 1996 U.S. Farm Bill, was the omnibus 1996 farm bill that, among other provisions, revises and simplifies direct payment programs for crops and eliminates milk price supports through direct government purchases.