40A.12 PROTECTION FOR NORMAL AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES.
Local governments may not enact ordinances or regulations that may restrict or regulate
normal agricultural practices within an agricultural preserve unless the restriction or regulation
has a direct relationship to public health and safety. This section applies to the operation of
vehicles and machinery for planting, maintaining, and harvesting crops and timber and for caring
and feeding farm animals, to the type of farming, and to the design of farm structures, except
for residences.
History: 1984 c 654 art 3 s 42; 1989 c 313 s 10