Wasco Municipal Code Ch. 8.18 Existing Farming Uses

Sections: 8.18.010 Not to become nuisance due to change in area. 8.18.020 Conflicting provisions. 8.18.030 General definition.

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 nuisance, private or public, due to any changed condition in or about the said area, after the same has been in operation for more than three years if it was not a nuisance at the time it began. (Ord. 343 §1, 1989).

This chapter shall not invalidate any provision 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 applicable state laws. (Ord. 343 §2, 1989).

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. 343 §3, 1989).