Bill Text: AZ SB1412 | 2010 | Forty-ninth Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced
Bill Title: Dairy farms; zoning; agricultural purpose
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2010-02-15 - Senate NRIPD Committee action: Held [SB1412 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2010-SB1412-Introduced.html
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REFERENCE TITLE: dairy farms; zoning; agricultural purpose |
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State of Arizona Senate Forty-ninth Legislature Second Regular Session 2010
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SB 1412 |
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Introduced by Senator Nelson
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AN ACT
amending section 11‑821.01, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to county zoning.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 11-821.01, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
11-821.01. Duty to zone certain area for canneries, fertilizer plants, refineries, commercial feed lots, meat packing plants, tallow works, and other like businesses; procedure
A. The county planning and zoning commission shall designate and zone appropriate areas of reasonable size in which there may be established with reasonable permanency canneries, fertilizer plants, refineries, commercial feed lots, meat packing plants, tallow works, and other like businesses, and the county board of supervisors shall by ordinance adopt at least one of any such plans as may be submitted by the commission to the board for the location of such businesses.
B. The zoning provided for in subsection A of this section shall be adopted and amended by the county as part of the county plan pursuant to section 11-821 and in accordance with all procedural requirements of this article.
C. Feeding pens, feed lots and feed areas that are part of an ongoing dairy operation, including areas designated for the feeding of heifers or replacement bulls, are agricultural in nature and do not constitute a cannery, fertilizer plant, refinery, commercial feed lot, meat packing plant, tallow work, and other like business. As provided by section 11‑821, subsection H, paragraph 2 and section 11‑830, subsection a, paragraph 2, feeding pens, feed lots and feed areas that are part of an ongoing dairy operation, including areas designated for the feeding of heifers or replacement bulls, are general agricultural purposes that are not subject to regulation or restriction.
