- A. This chapter applies to any lot released by the Foundation to an eligible landowner or landowner's child for the landowner's or landowner's child's use and occupancy on a farm. This chapter describes release procedures and explains when the lot may be conveyed.
B. The lots permitted to be released from the deed of easement under this chapter are:
- (1) Restricted under the terms of each agricultural land preservation easement; and
- (2) Intended only for the limited purpose of constructing a dwelling for the eligible landowner who sold or transferred an easement to the Foundation or for the child of a landowner or landowners, thereby allowing immediate family members to live on the farm.
- C. Except as provided by this chapter, these dwellings or lots may not be transferred or conveyed to any other person.
- D. This chapter does not apply to an unrestricted lot released by the Foundation from the deed easement.
Authority: Agriculture Article, §§2-504 and 2-513, Annotated Code of Maryland
Effective date:
Regulations .01—.06 adopted as an emergency provision effective July 17, 2006 (33:17 Md. R. 1435); adopted permanently effective November 6, 2006 (33:22 Md. R. 1733)
Chapter revised effective July 8, 2013 (40:13 Md. R. 1076)