§ 5.16.030. Preexisting agricultural operations not a nuisance.

(a)

No agricultural activity, operation, or facility, or appurtenances thereof, conducted or maintained 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, due to any changed condition in or about the locality, after it has been in operation for more than three years if it was not a nuisance at the time it began.

(b)

Subsection (a) of this section shall not apply if the agricultural activity, operation, or facility, or appurtenances thereof, obstruct the free passage or use, in the customary manner, of any navigable lake, river, bay, stream, canal or basin, or any public park, square, street or highway.

(Ord. 2958 § 1 (part), 2001: Ord. 2561 § 1 (part), 1992)