[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
of the Township of Carneys Point as indicated in article histories.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 12-14-2005 by Ord. No. 769]
The right to farm land is hereby recognized
to exist as a natural right and is also hereby ordained to exist as
a permitted use in the Township's Agricultural Zone; and in the area
proposed for inclusion in the Salem County Agricultural Development
Area regardless of specified uses and prohibited uses set forth elsewhere
in the Zoning Ordinance of Carneys Point Township,[1] subject only to the restrictions and regulations for intensive
fowl or livestock farms and subject to Township health and sanitary
codes.
The right to farm as it is used in this section
includes the use of large irrigation pumps and equipment, aerial and
ground seeding and spraying, large tractors, numerous farm laborers
and the application of chemical fertilizers, insecticides and herbicides,
all for the purpose of producing from the land agricultural products
such as vegetables, grains, hay, fruits, fibers, wood, trees, plants,
shrubs, flowers and seeds. This right to farm shall also include the
right to use land for grazing by animals, subject to the restrictions
for intensive fowl or livestock farms.
The foregoing uses and activities included in
the right to farm, when reasonable and necessary for the particular
farming, livestock or fowl production and when conducted in accordance
with generally accepted agricultural practices, may occur on holidays,
Saturdays, Sundays, and weekdays, at night and in the day, and the
noise, odors, dust and fumes that are caused by them are also specifically
permitted as part of the exercise of this right.
It is expressly found that whatever nuisance
may be caused to others by such uses and activities so conducted is
more than offset by the benefits from farming to the neighborhood
and community and to society in general by the preservation of open
space, the beauty of the countryside and clean air and by the preservation
and continuance of farming operations in Carneys Point Township and
in New Jersey as a source of agricultural products for this and future
generations.
