§ 2-23-2 - Legislative findings.
SECTION 2-23-2
§ 2-23-2 Legislative findings. – The general assembly finds:
(1) That agricultural operations are valuable to the state'seconomy and the general welfare of the state's people;
(2) That agricultural operations are adversely affected bythe random encroachment of urban land uses throughout rural areas of the state;
(3) That, as one result of this random encroachment,conflicts have arisen between traditional agricultural land uses and urban landuses; and
(4) That conflicts between agricultural and urban land usesthreaten to force the abandonment of agricultural operations and the conversionof agricultural resources to non-agricultural land uses, whereby theseresources are permanently lost to the economy and the human and physicalenvironments of the state.