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<section article="gag" article_name="Agriculture" number="8-307" title_number="8" title_name="Soil Conservation" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="State Soil Conservation Districts">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The supervisors of any district may formulate rules and regulations governing the use of land within the district in order to conserve soil and soil resources and prevent and control soil erosion. The supervisors may conduct public meetings and public hearings upon tentative rules and regulations as necessary.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The district supervisors, by rules and regulations, may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Require necessary engineering operations, including the construction of terraces, terrace outlets, check dams, dikes, ponds, ditches, and other necessary structures;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Require observance of particular methods of cultivation including (i) contour cultivating, contour furrowing, lister furrowing, sowing, planting, strip cropping, and seeding; (ii) planting of lands with water conserving and erosion preventing plants, trees, and grasses; and (iii) forestation and reforestation;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Specify cropping programs and tillage practices to be observed;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Require retirement from cultivation of any highly erosive area on which erosion may not be adequately controlled if cultivation is carried on; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Provide for other means, measures, operations, and programs that may assist conservation of soil resources and prevent or control soil erosion in the district, having due regard to the legislative findings set forth in § 8–102 of this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The regulations shall be uniform throughout the district, except the supervisors may classify district lands with reference to factors such as soil type, degree of slope, degree of erosion threatened or existing, cropping and tillage practices in use, and other relevant factors, and may provide rules and regulations varying with the type or class of land affected, but uniform as to all lands within each class or type.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Copies of land–use regulations adopted under the provisions of this section shall be printed and made available to all land occupiers within the district.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Any agency administering any publicly owned lands shall observe the land–use rules and regulations in every respect.</text>
  </level>
</section>
