43-34-103 - Chapter definitions. - Tennessee Statutes

43-34-103. Chapter definitions.

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

     (1)  “Agricultural district” means those properties residing within a contiguous boundary and meeting appropriate criteria for designation as such by the local soil conservation district;

     (2)  “Agricultural production” means those operations including associated land and facility management activities engaged in the commercial propagation, raising, harvesting and/or processing of any plant or animal or products thereof for purposes of consumption, utilization, goods, or service either on-site or for distribution;

     (3)  “Board of supervisors” means the governing body of the local soil conservation district;

     (4)  “Farmland” means land and associated facilities involved in agricultural production activities;

     (5)  “Ownership” means any individual, family, company, corporation, or organization holding title to property within a proposed or established agricultural district;

     (6)  “Petition” means the application and application process for designation of an agricultural district as submitted to the local soil conservation district;

     (7)  “Soil conservation district” means that governmental body established by chapter 14, part 2, of this title; and

     (8)  “State soil conservation committee” means that governmental body established by chapter 14, part 2, of this title.

[Acts 1995, ch. 465, § 4.]