CHAPTER 2. California Farmland Conservancy Program [10230. - 10246.]
Heading of Chapter 2 amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 502, Sec. 9.
§§ 10230–10246 · 18 sections
- § 10230 (a) The California Farmland Conservancy Program Fund is hereby created. (b) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the moneys in the fund shall, upon…
- § 10230.2 (a) The California Farmland Conservancy Program is hereby established in the department. (b) The program may offer financial assistance, including grants or…
- § 10231 (a) Funding shall be used in accordance with the expenditures and distribution authorized, required, or otherwise provided in the program for grants for the…
- § 10231.5 The department may accept donations of funds if the department is the designated beneficiary of the donation and it agrees to use the funds for purposes of the…
- § 10232 The director shall not approve a grant if the local government requesting a grant has acquired, or proposes to acquire, the agricultural conservation easement…
- § 10233 Each application for a grant pursuant to this division shall contain a matching funding component, as specified in this section, and may be provided in the…
- § 10235 (a) The director shall not disburse any grant funds unless the applicant agrees that the grant funds shall be used by the applicant only for the purpose for…
- § 10235.5 The department may establish a payment system for the purchase of an agricultural conservation easement that is mutually satisfactory to the department and the…
- § 10236 If the funds are used for the acquisition of an agricultural conservation easement or fee title pursuant to a local transfer of development rights program,…
- § 10237 The director shall not disburse any grant funds for easement or fee title acquisitions unless the applicant, and in the case of an easement acquisition grant,…
- § 10238 (a) The director shall not disburse any grant funds to acquire agricultural conservation easements that restrict husbandry practices. (b) The following uses…
- § 10239 The director shall disburse funds to an applicant for a grant for the acquisition of fee title to agricultural land only if the applicant agrees to all of the…
- § 10240 (a) The department shall adopt rules and regulations for the implementation of this division. (b) Rules or regulations adopted by the department pursuant to…
- § 10241 The department shall adopt the criteria necessary for its approval of grant applications.
- § 10242 The director shall review, and approve or disapprove, all requests for funding under this division.
- § 10243 A local governmental entity shall not condition the issuance of an entitlement for use on the applicant’s granting of a conservation easement pursuant to this…
- § 10245 The program shall reimburse any school district which requests reimbursement for any net loss of property tax revenues occurring as a result of the program.
- § 10246 Grants may be made for land improvements. Use of these grants shall be limited to the improvement of land protected by a conservation easement or a similar…