Boone County, KY Right to Farm: Farm Nuisance Protection (2026)

20 defines an AGRICULTURAL OPERATION broadly to cover crop, livestock and poultry production, horticulture and timber growing, and related activities, but it specifically excludes any facility built to produce or keep dogs and cats or run a kennel. 21 gives a qualifying operation its right-to-farm protection: once the operation existed and was not a nuisance when it began, later changes in the surrounding area, like new subdivisions moving in next door, cannot turn it into a nuisance, private or public, unless the farm itself starts operating negligently.

23 makes the whole subchapter override any conflicting county ordinance or resolution on point. 24 offers a grievance-committee process for complaints about noise, odors, fumes, dust, round-the-clock equipment use, manure storage or the spraying of fertilizers, herbicides or pesticides: the complaining neighbor can bring the dispute, within 30 days of the incident or of learning of it, to a five-member committee made up of a County Judge/Executive appointee, the county's Extension Agent for Agriculture, the Director of the county Planning and Zoning Commission, the President of the County Farm Bureau, and the President of the Northern Kentucky Home Builders Association. The committee investigates, must meet within 30 days of the request, and issues an advisory written decision within 20 days of that meeting.