Union County, NC Right to Farm: Farm Nuisance Protection (2026)

Sec. 4-33(a) makes it the Agricultural Advisory Board's duty to coordinate the county's agricultural district program with its land use planning and land use plan. Sec. 4-33(b) requires the county to post a standardized notice, sized for public display, at the Union County Register of Deeds and any other office the advisory board designates. That posted text tells prospective buyers that agricultural and forestry activities in a district, including pesticide spraying, manure spreading, machinery and truck operation, and livestock operations, are lawful at any hour.

C. Cooperative Extension Service, Register of Deeds, County Planning Office, or Natural Resources Conservation Service for district maps. Sec. 4-24(c) requires those maps to be displayed for public view at the Planning, Register of Deeds, and Cooperative Extension offices; Sec. 4-31 has the county GIS Office maintain a mapped district layer, and lets the county manager post roadway signs near districts (Sec. 4-31(b)). Sec. 4-31(c)-(d) shields the county and its officers from liability for good-faith errors in maintaining that information, and specifies that no cause of action arises from a title researcher's failure to report a tract's proximity to a district.