Chapter 8.24 — AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES

No agricultural activity, operation, or facility, or appurtenances thereof, conducted or maintained for commercial purposes, and in a manner consistent with proper and accepted customs and standards, as established and followed by similar agricultural operations in and adjacent to the city, shall be or become a public nuisance, due to any changed condition in or about the said area, after the same has been in operation for more than three (3) years if it was not a nuisance at the time it began.

(Ord. 251 §1, 1991).

This chapter shall not invalidate any provisions contained in the State of California Health and Safety Code, Fish and Game Code, Food and Agricultural Code, or Division 7 of the Water Code, if the agricultural activity, operation or facility, or appurtenances thereof, constitute a nuisance, public or private, as specifically defined or described in any such provision, or other state applicable laws.

(Ord. 251 §2, 1991).

For the purposes of this chapter, the term "agricultural activity, operation, or facility, or appurtenances thereof" shall include, but not be limited to, the cultivation, growing and harvesting of any agricultural

commodity including timber, viticulture, apiculture, or horticulture, the raising of livestock, fur bearing animals, fish, or poultry, and any practices performed by a farmer or on a farm as incident to or in conjunction with such farming operations, including preparation for market, delivery to storage or to market, or to carriers for transportation to market.

(Ord. 251 §3, 1991).