(A) Revocation and enforcement. By providing written notice to the Advisory Board, a landowner of qualifying farmland within a Voluntary Agricultural District may revoke the conservation agreement, or the Advisory Board may revoke the same conservation agreement based on noncompliance by the landowner, subject to the same provisions as contained in § 151.062 for appeal of denials. Such revocation shall result in loss of qualifying farm status and loss of eligibility to participate in a district. Absent noncompliance by the landowner, neither the Advisory Board nor the Board of Commissioners shall revoke any agricultural district prior to its expiration. If the Advisory Board shall revoke this agricultural district for cause, the landowner shall have the appeal rights set forth in § 151.062. Transfers of land in Voluntary Agricultural Districts due to death of the landowner, sale, or gift shall not revoke the agricultural district unless the land no longer qualifies for the Present-Use-Value Taxation Program or, in the event that there are water or sewer assessments held in abeyance, the new owners fail to agree in writing to accept liability for those assessments in the event that the land is withdrawn either voluntarily or involuntarily from the district. Enforcement of the terms of an agricultural district for land enrolled in a Voluntary Agricultural District shall be limited to revocation of the agricultural district and the benefits derived therefrom.
(B) Renewal. A conservation agreements for land within a Voluntary Agricultural District shall be automatically renewed unless the landowner provides 30-day written notice to the Advisory Board of intent not to renew. Absent noncompliance by the landowner, neither the Advisory Board nor the Board of Commissioners shall fail to renew any conservation agreement unless this chapter or its authorizing legislation has been repealed.
(Ord. passed 8-6-2007)