2014 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 4 - AGRICULTURE AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS
Section 4:1C-32.3 - Special permit, application fee, grounds for suspension, revocation.

4:1C-32.3 Special permit, application fee, grounds for suspension, revocation.

3. a. The application fee for a special permit authorized pursuant to either section 1 or section 2 of this act shall be $1,000, payable to the committee regardless of whether or not a permit is issued. All proceeds from the collection of application fees by the committee pursuant to this act shall be utilized by the committee for farmland preservation purposes.

b.The committee may suspend or revoke a special permit issued pursuant to either section 1 or section 2 of this act for a violation of any term or condition of the permit or any provision of the respective section.

c.The committee shall, within 60 days after the date of enactment of this act, develop guidelines for the implementation and administration of this act, including, but not limited to, procedures and standards for the filing, evaluation, and approval of permit applications, which seek to balance, as equally important concepts, the public interest in protecting farmland from further development as a means of preserving agriculture and agricultural structures and enhancing the beauty and character of the State and the local communities where farmland has been preserved with the public interest in providing support to sustain and strengthen the agricultural industry in the State.

d.Every two years, the committee shall prepare a report on the implementation of this act. The report shall include a survey and inventory of all commercial nonagricultural activities occurring on, and of all personal wireless service facilities placed on, preserved farmland in accordance with this act; the extent to which existing structures, such as barns, sheds, and silos, are used for those purposes, and how those structures have been modified therefor; the extent to which new structures, instead of existing structures, have been erected to host personal wireless service facilities and the number and type of new structures used to disguise those facilities, such as artificial trees and faux barns, sheds, and silos; and such other information as the committee deems useful. The report prepared pursuant to this subsection shall be transmitted to the Governor, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the General Assembly, the respective chairpersons of the Senate Economic Growth Committee, the Senate Environment Committee, the Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, and the Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee or their designated successors. Copies of the report shall also be made available to the public upon request and free of charge, and shall be posted on the website of the State Agriculture Development Committee.

e.The committee shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), any rules and regulations necessary to carry out the purposes of this act.

L.2005,c.314,s.3.