2006 Louisiana Laws - RS 3:3601 — Right to farm and forest

CHAPTER 22.  RIGHT TO FARM AND FOREST

PART I.  RIGHT TO FARM

§3601.  Citation; legislative findings; purpose

A.  This Part shall be known as and may be cited as the Louisiana Right to Farm Law.

B.(1)  The legislature hereby finds and declares that agriculture is essential not only to the economy of the state but to the sustenance of life, yet acreage devoted to agriculture has steadily declined in this century.

(2)  The legislature further finds and declares that owners of agricultural land and the public, which depends upon agricultural production, need to be protected from further diminution in value of agricultural land by providing safeguards and by establishing a more reliable remedy for diminution in value of agricultural land caused by governmental entities.

Added by Acts 1983, No. 95, §1; Acts 1995, No. 302, §1.

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