4:1B-5 - Agricultural preserve demonstration program;  establishment; purpose

4:1B-5.  Agricultural preserve demonstration program;  establishment; purpose
    There is hereby established the Agricultural Preserve Demonstration Program.   The purpose of this program shall be the creation of an agricultural preserve,  which shall remain undeveloped for other than agricultural purposes as  determined in accordance with the provisions of this act.  Such preserve shall  be established through the State purchase of development easements to such  lands.  It shall further be the purpose of this program to provide information  and experience concerning such State efforts to preserve agricultural open  space.  It shall be the goal of the program to acquire such easements to  approximately 5,000 acres of such land within the agricultural preserve.

     L.1976, c. 50, s. 5, eff. July 22, 1976.