§ 2-23-2 - Legislative findings. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 2-23-2

   § 2-23-2  Legislative findings. – The general assembly finds:

   (1) That agricultural operations are valuable to the state'seconomy and the general welfare of the state's people;

   (2) That agricultural operations are adversely affected bythe random encroachment of urban land uses throughout rural areas of the state;

   (3) That, as one result of this random encroachment,conflicts have arisen between traditional agricultural land uses and urban landuses; and

   (4) That conflicts between agricultural and urban land usesthreaten to force the abandonment of agricultural operations and the conversionof agricultural resources to non-agricultural land uses, whereby theseresources are permanently lost to the economy and the human and physicalenvironments of the state.