Chapter Definitions

1. Law
2. Tennessee Code
3. Agriculture and Horticulture
4. Agricultural District and Farmland Preservation Act
5. Chapter Definitions

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. “Agricultural district” means those properties residing within a contiguous boundary and meeting appropriate criteria for designation as such by the local soil conservation district;
2. “Agricultural production” means those operations including associated land and facility management activities engaged in the commercial propagation, raising, harvesting and/or processing of any plant or animal or products thereof for purposes of consumption, utilization, goods, or service either on-site or for distribution;
3. “Board of supervisors” means the governing body of the local soil conservation district;
4. “Farmland” means land and associated facilities involved in agricultural production activities;
5. “Ownership” means any individual, family, company, corporation, or organization holding title to property within a proposed or established agricultural district;
6. “Petition” means the application and application process for designation of an agricultural district as submitted to the local soil conservation district;
7. “Soil conservation district” means that governmental body established by chapter 14, part 2, of this title; and
8. “State soil conservation committee” means that governmental body established by chapter 14, part 2, of this title.

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