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CA Codes(gov:51200- 5]207) <br />GOVERNMENT CODE <br />SECTION 51200 -51207 <br />51200. This chapter shall be known as the California Land <br />Conservation Act of 1965 or as the Williamson Act. <br />51201.. As used in this chapter, unless otherwise apparent from the <br />context, the following terms have the following meanings: <br />(a) "Agricultural commodity" means any and all plant and animal. <br />products produced in this state for commercial purposes, including, <br />but not limited to, plant products used for producing biofuels. <br />(b) "Agricultural use" means use of land, including but not <br />limited to greenhouses, for the purpose of producing an agricultural <br />commodity for commercial purposes, <br />(c) "Prime agricultural land" means any of the following. <br />(1) All land that qualifies for rating as class T or class I1 in <br />the Natural Resource Conservation Service land use capability <br />classificati-ons. <br />(2) Land which qualifies for rating 80 through 100 in the Store <br />Index Bating. <br />(3) Land which supports livestock used for the production of food <br />and fiber and which has an annual carrying capacity equivalent to at <br />least one animal unit per acre as defined by the United States <br />Department of Agriculture. <br />(4) Land planted with fruit- or nut - bearing trees, vines, bushes, <br />or crops which have a nonbearing period of less than five years and <br />which will normally return during the commercial bearing period on an <br />annual basis from the production of unprocessed agricultural plant <br />production not less than two hundred dollars ($200) per acre. <br />(5) Land which has returned from the production of unprocessed <br />agricultural plant products an annual gross value of not less than <br />two hundred dollars ($200) per acre for three of the previous five <br />years. <br />(d) "Agricultural preserve" means an area devoted to either <br />agricultural. use, as defined in subdivision (b), recreational use as <br />defined in subdivision (n), or open -space use as defined in <br />subdivision (o), or any combination of those uses and which is <br />established in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. <br />(e) "Compatible use" is any use determined by the county or city <br />administering the preserve pursuant to Section 512311 51238, or <br />51238,1 or by this act to be compatible with the agricultural, <br />recreational, or open -space use of land within the preserve and <br />subject to contract. "Compatible use" includes agricultural use, <br />recreational use or open -space use unless the board or council finds <br />after notice and hearing that the use is not compatible with the <br />agricultural, recreational or open -space use to which the land is <br />restricted by contract pursuant to this chapter. <br />(f) "Board" means the board of supervisors of a county which <br />establishes or proposes to establish an agricultural preserve or <br />which enters or proposes to enter into a contract on land within an <br />agricultural preserve pursuant to this chapter. <br />(g) "Council." means the city council of a city which establishes <br />or proposes to establish an agricultural preserve or which enters or <br />proposes to enter into a contract on land within an agricultural <br />Page I of 6 <br />hfln: / /www.lecinfo.ca. ov/ cei- bin /dishlaYCO "dfitl —r7-1 v &group =51001 -52000 &file =5... 8/14/2013 <br />