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(a) No agricultural activity, operation or facility, or appurtenances thereof, conducted or maintained on agricultural lands for commercial purposes, and in a manner consistent with proper and accepted customs and standards as established and followed by similar agricultural operations in the same locality, shall be or become a nuisance, private or public, after the same has been in operation for more than one (1) year, if it was not a nuisance at the time it began, except that the provisions of this Section shall not apply in the case of a negligent operation, when a change in operation would result in a private or public nuisance, or when a substantial increase in the size of operations occurs.

(b) This Article is not to be construed as modifying or abridging existing or future law relative to nuisances, but rather is only to be utilized in the interpretation and enforcement of the provisions of this Article. (Ord. 711 § 1, 2003)