§ 325. Agricultural protection. 1. Subject to the availability of\nfunds, a program is hereby established to finance through state\nassistance payments the state share of the costs of locally-led\nagricultural and farmland protection activities. State assistance\npayments for planning activities shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars\nto each county agricultural and farmland protection board or one hundred\nthousand dollars to two such boards applying jointly, and shall not\nexceed fifty percent of the cost of preparing an agricultural and\nfarmland protection plan. State assistance payments for planning\nactivities shall not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars to each\nmunicipality other than a county or fifty thousand dollars to two such\nmunicipalities applying jointly, and shall not exceed seventy-five\npercent of the cost of preparing an agricultural and farmland protection\nplan. A county which has an approved farmland protection plan may after\none hundred twenty months from the date of such approval by the\ncommissioner apply for additional state assistance payments for planning\nactivities related to the updating of their current plan or development\nof a new farmland protection plan. Such additional state assistance\npayments shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars to each county\nagricultural and farmland protection board or one hundred thousand\ndollars to two such boards applying jointly, and shall not exceed fifty\npercent of the cost of preparing an agricultural and farmland protection\nplan. State assistance payments for implementation of approved\nagricultural and farmland protection plans may fund up to seventy-five\npercent of the cost of implementing the county plan or portion of the\nplan for which state assistance payments are requested. State assistance\npayments to such counties shall not exceed seventy-five percent of the\ncost of implementing the local plan or portion of the plan for which\nstate assistance has been requested. Such maximum shall be increased by\na percentage equal to the percentage of the total eligible costs for\nsuch specified projects that are contributed by the owner of the\nagricultural land for which the project is being funded, provided,\nhowever, that in no event shall the total of such state assistance\npayments exceed eighty-seven and one-half percent of such eligible costs\nfor any specified project.\n 2. (a) A county agricultural and farmland protection board, two such\nboards acting jointly, a municipality or two such municipalities acting\njointly shall make application to the commissioner in such manner as the\ncommissioner may prescribe. Application for state assistance payments\nfor planning activities may be made at any time after the county\nagricultural and farmland protection board has formed and has elected a\nchairperson. A county agricultural and farmland protection board may\nmake application for state assistance payments for plan implementation\nat any time after the commissioner has approved a county agricultural\nand farmland protection plan pursuant to section three hundred\ntwenty-four of this article. Application made jointly by two county\nagricultural and farmland protection boards may be made after such\nagricultural and farmland protection plan is approved by each county\npursuant to the provisions of section three hundred twenty-four of this\narticle. State assistance payments to such counties shall not exceed\nseventy-five percent of the cost of implementing the county agricultural\nand farmland protection plan or portion of the plan for which state\nassistance has been requested. The commissioner may require such\ninformation or additional planning as he or she deems necessary to\nevaluate such a request for state assistance.\n (b) Within a county, a municipality which has in place a local\nfarmland protection plan may apply and shall be eligible for\nagricultural protection state assistance payments to implement its plan,\nor a portion of its
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