Section 10235.5.
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 seller of the easement, provided that full payment for the easement is secured. (Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 503, Sec. 10. Effective January 1, 2000.)
Section 10236.
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, upon the sale of the easement or fee title and its attendant development rights, the entity that holds the easement shall reimburse the fund by an amount equal to […]
Section 10237.
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, the seller, agrees to restrict the use of the land in perpetuity. (Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 502, Sec. 17. (AB 2964) Effective January 1, 2023.)
Section 10238.
10238. (a) The director shall not disburse any grant funds to acquire agricultural conservation easements that restrict husbandry practices. (b) The following uses and activities shall be deemed consistent and compatible with any agricultural conservation easement funded under this division and shall not be considered to restrict husbandry practices: (1) Those uses and activities specified in Sections 10246 […]
Section 10239.
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 following conditions: (a) Upon acquisition of the property, treat the property as encumbered by an agricultural conservation easement subject to this division and approved by the […]
Section 10240.
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 this section shall be adopted in accordance with the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of […]
Section 10241.
10241. The department shall adopt the criteria necessary for its approval of grant applications. (Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 616, Sec. 14. Effective January 1, 2003.)
Section 10230.
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 appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, be used for the purposes of the program. (2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), moneys may be deposited into the fund from federal grants, and gifts […]