HARRY HUGHES, Governor

3551

Approved June 1, 1982.

CHAPTER 613

(House Bill 420)

AN ACT concerning

Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation
Foundation - Development Rights

FOR the purpose of limiting the acreage of land subject to
an agricultural land preservation easement which can be
conveyed to a landowner's child free of easement
restrictions for the purpose of constructing a dwelling
house; requiring payment for conveying the land free of
this easement or for release of this easement;
providing that a landowner or a landowner's child may
not further subdivide certain acreage used for the
purpose of constructing a dwelling house; defining
"child" for certain purposes; and generally relating to
the use of land for which an agricultural land
preservation easement is purchased.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Agriculture

Section 2-513(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1974 Volume and 1981 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
read(s) as follows:

Article - Agriculture

2-513.

(b) (1) The easement shall provide that residential
subdivision for commercial purposes is not permitted.
However, THE EASEMENT SHALL PROVIDE THAT, upon written
application to the foundation [conveyance of one acre or
less for the owner who originally sold an easement to the
foundation and for each of his children for the. purpose of
construction of one dwelling house intended for his or their
use shall be permitted one time only for that owner and each
child, and] THE FOUNDATION MAY SHALL RELEASE FROM. THE
EASEMENT RESTRICTIONS 1 ACRE OR LESS OF THE LAND SUBJECT TO
THE EASEMENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONSTRUCTING A DWELLING