In this Chapter, the following words and phrases have the meanings indicated:
Agricultural Board or APAB means the County Agricultural Preservation Advisory Board.
Agricultural Easement means a covenant running with the land that restricts the uses permitted on the property to other uses as specified in this Chapter.
Agriculture means:
(1) the business, science, and art of cultivating and managing the soil;
(2) composting, growing, harvesting, and selling crops and livestock, and the products of forestry, horticulture, and hydroponics;
(3) breeding, raising, or managing livestock, including horses, poultry, fish, game, and fur- bearing animals, dairying, beekeeping and similar activities; and
(4) equestrian events and activities.
Agriculture includes processing an agricultural product on the farm in the course of preparing the product for market, which may or may not cause a change in the natural form or state of the product.
Agriculture Article means the Agriculture Article of the Maryland Code.
Buildable Lot means a parcel of land on which the owner has retained the right to build a principal dwelling.
Foundation means the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation.
Fund means the County’s Agricultural Land Preservation Fund.
Landowner means a fee simple owner of land located in the County on which a landowner proposes to sell or has sold an agricultural easement to the State or the County.
Office means the Office of Agriculture.
Planning Board means the Montgomery County Planning Board.
Principal Dwelling means a residential structure on farm property which serves as the property’s primary residence.
Productive Agricultural Land means land eligible to be included in an agricultural easement under County or Foundation regulations.
Significant Agricultural Resource or Significant Agricultural Capability means land which, if properly agronomically managed and under normal growing conditions, the Office, after consulting local agricultural support agencies, finds can sustain a profitable farm enterprise.
Solar Collection System means an arrangement of panels or other solar energy devices that provide for the collection, inversion, storage, and distribution of solar energy for electricity generation, space heating, space cooling, or water heating. A Solar Collection System includes freestanding or mounted devices.
State Agricultural Easement means an easement established under Subtitle 5 of Title 2 of the Agriculture Article.
Tenant House means a residential structure on land under an agricultural easement that serves as an accessory use to the principal dwelling. (2008 L.M.C., ch. 37, § 1; 2015 L.M.C., ch. 36, § 1; 2016 L.M.C., ch. 8, § 1; 2021 L.M.C., ch. 33, §1.)