Ch. 216                                  LAWS OF MARYLAND

12-101.

(a)  In this subtitle the following words have the meanings
indicated.

(b)   "A-l zoned area" means an area designated by the county
Zoning Ordinance as Agricultural "A-1" District.

(c)   "Agricultural preservation district" means at least 300
acres of contiguous land or 500 acres of noncontiguous land which
presently is devoted actively to agricultural or forest use.

(d)   "Board" means the Agricultural Preservation Advisory
Board of Calvert County.

(e)   "Designated agricultural area" means those areas of the
county identified by the agricultural preservation advisory board
as having the greatest potential for maintaining a viable level
of agricultural or forest production.

(f)   "Development option" means the right of a landowner in
an agricultural preservation district to convey the privilege
that permits a person to increase the density of residential use
of land in a designated transfer zone.

(g)   "Development right" means the right an agricultural
owner conveys to a person that permits the person to increase the
density of residential use of land in a designated transfer zone.
A development right comes into existence only after a development
option has been conveyed by an owner in an agricultural
preservation district.

(h) "Program" means the Calvert County Agricultural Land
Preservation Program.

(i) "Transfer zone" means the area in Calvert County [zoned
agricultural "A-l"] designated by the county commissioners as an
area where development rights may be used to increase the density
of residential use.

(j) "Development option agreement" means a recorded
instrument which sets forth the provisions of the conveyance of
the development options. The format and minimum contents shall
be established by the county commissioners.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1987.

Approved April 29, 1987.

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