2005 Rhode Island Code - § 2-23-4 — "Agricultural operations" defined.

    (a) As used in this chapter, "agricultural operations" includes any commercial enterprise which has as its primary purpose horticulture, viticulture, viniculture, floriculture, forestry, stabling of horses, dairy farming, or aquaculture, or the raising of livestock, furbearing animals, poultry, or bees, and all such other operations, uses, and activities as the director, in consultation with the chief of division of agriculture, may determine to be agriculture, or an agricultural activity, use or operation. The mixed-use of farms and farmlands for other forms of enterprise is hereby recognized as a valuable and viable means of contributing to the preservation of agriculture.

   (b) Nothing herein shall be deemed to restrict, limit or prohibit nonagricultural operations from being undertaken on a farm except as otherwise restricted, regulated, limited or prohibited by law, regulation or ordinance or to affect the rights of persons to engage in other lawful nonagricultural enterprises on farms, provided, however, that the protections and rights established by this chapter shall not apply to such nonagricultural activities, uses or operations.