Kern County Municipal Code Ch. 8.56 Right-to-Farm and Right-to-Business

A. No agricultural, ranching, hydrocarbon extraction or refining, energy production or mining activity, operation, or facility, or appurtenances thereof, as defined in Civil Code Sections 3482.5(e) and 3482.6(e), or any transportation activity in conjunction therewith, lawfully established and conducted or maintained in a manner consistent with lawful, proper and accepted customs and standards as established by similar activities in the same locality, shall be or become a nuisance, public or private, due to any changed condition in or about the locality, including, but not limited to, unrelated residences, if it was not a nuisance at the time it began.

B. This section shall not apply where the activity, operation, facility or appurtenances thereof, obstructs the free passage or use, in the customary manner, of any navigable lake, river, bay, stream, canal or basin, or any public park, square, street or highway. This section shall not apply if the activity, operation, facility or appurtenances thereof, or any transportation activity in conjunction therewith, constitutes a nuisance, public or private, as specifically defined or described in or pursuant to any provision of statewide California law.

(Ord. G-6664 § 2, 2000)