19.21.01 Definitions

For the purpose of this Chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings: 1. “Advisory Board” means the Agriculture Protection Area Advisory Board created by Utah County pursuant to Article 26-2 of the Utah County Ordinances. 2. “Agriculture production”: a. means production for commercial purposes of crops, livestock, and livestock products; and b. includes the processing or retail marketing of any crops, livestock, and livestock products when more than fifty percent of the processed or merchandised products are produced by the farm operator. 3. “Agriculture protection area” means a geographic area within the municipal boundaries of the City of Saratoga Springs created under the authority of this Chapter that is granted the specific legal protection contained herein. 4. “Crops, livestock, and livestock products” include: a. land devoted to the raising of useful plants and animals with a reasonable expectation of profit, including: i. forages and sod crops; ii. grains and feed crops; iii. livestock as defined in Utah Code § 4-1-8; iv. trees and fruits; or v) vegetables, nursery, floral and ornamental stock, or; b. land devoted to and meeting the requirements and qualifications for payments or other compensation under a crop-land retirement program with an agency of the state or federal government. 5. “Proposal sponsors” means the owners of land in agricultural production who are sponsoring the proposal for creating an agriculture protection area. Land Development Code – Title 19-21 6. “State agency” means each department, commission, board, council, agency, institution, officer, corporation, fund, division, office, committee, authority, laboratory, library, unit, bureau, panel, or other administrative unit of the state.