Pennsylvania's Right to Farm Act limits municipal restrictions on normal agricultural operations including chickens and livestock on qualifying farmland.
Pennsylvania's Right to Farm Act (3 P.S. Sec. 951 et seq.) preempts local ordinances that would restrict normal agricultural operations on properties of at least ten acres or producing $10,000 in annual gross income. The Agricultural Area Security Law and the ACRE statute (Act 38 of 2005) allow the Attorney General to challenge unauthorized local ordinances regulating farm activities. Municipalities cannot ban livestock operations that comply with state law, though small backyard chicken keeping in residential zones remains a local matter.
Municipalities passing unauthorized agricultural ordinances may face ACRE review and Attorney General enforcement actions to invalidate those rules.
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