(A) The costs of services ordered by the Township Board for the Farmland Preservation Program shall be paid from available Farmland Preservation Program funding sources in the township as well as state and federal matching funds. Such costs include, but are not limited to, expenses for appraising, engineering, surveying, planning, financing, legal fees, conducting environmental assessments, searching titles, developing baseline assessments and monitoring compliance with easement restrictions. The township shall not be responsible for any expenses incurred by property owners incidental to applications for purchase of development rights/agricultural conservation easements which the Township Agricultural Preservation Board has identified as the responsibility of property owners such as title searches, appraisals and land surveys.
(B) Division (A) above shall not preclude agreement by the township and the landowner to share such costs as engineering and surveying as an outcome of negotiation.
(Prior Code, Ch. XXXI, § 11) (Ord. passed 8-16-2004)