# COMAR Title 27 — Critical Area Commission for the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays

## Subtitle 01 — Criteria for Local Critical Area Program Development

### Chapter 06 — Agriculture

#### Regulation .02 Policies.

*COMAR 27.01.06.02*

In developing and updating its Critical Area program, a local jurisdiction shall follow these policies when addressing agriculture:

A. Assure that agricultural lands are identified and that programs are established for the Critical Area to maintain, where appropriate, agricultural lands in agricultural use, to the greatest extent possible; and

B. Recognize that agriculture is a protective land use that should be properly managed so that it minimizes its contribution to pollutant loadings to the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays and their tributaries.