(A) In addition to any other requirement of this article, swine feeding operations owners and operators who are granted a swine feeding operations permit shall:
(1) Provide adequate veterinarian services for detection, control and elimination of livestock diseases;
(2) Have available for use at all necessary times mechanical means of scraping, cleaning, and grading feed yard premises;
(3) Provide weather resistant aprons adjacent to all permanently affixed feed bunks, water tanks, and feeding devices;
(4) Provide a minimum of a 50 foot vegetated woody buffer strip on both sides of any perennial or intermittent stream, which is maintained in a living condition, in accordance with the recommendations made in the soil and water conservation plan, nutrient management plan, and waste management plan.
(B) Any swine feeding operation operated in compliance with a permit issued under this article shall be deemed an agricultural operation under the scope of §§ 1-6-61 (Right to Farm Ordinance) et seq. of the Code.
(Ord. 00-29-271, 9-14-2000; Ord. 08-26-502, 10-14-2008; Ord. 14-23-678, 11-13-2014)