New Jersey A 4752: Prohibits gender-based price discrimination.

Bill Text

A4752 

ASSEMBLY, No. 4752 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED MARCH 19, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman� ALEX SAUICKIE

District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)

SYNOPSIS

���� Authorizes counties and certain boards to acquire 
unpreserved lands in agricultural development areas for use by agricultural 
support businesses, and to sell or lease county-owned lands in such areas to 
such businesses at reduced price. 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� As introduced.

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An Act concerning the acquisition, sale, and lease, by 
counties, of certain unpreserved lands situated in agricultural development 
areas, and amending and supplementing P.L.1983, c.32 and Title 40A of the New 
Jersey Statutes.

���� Be It 
Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� Section 3 of P.L.1983, 
c.32 (C.4:1C-13) is amended to read as follows: 

���� 3.��� As used in [this act] P.L.1983, 
c.32 (C.4:1C-11 et seq.) and P.L.��� , c.��� (C.������� ) (pending before the 
Legislature as this bill):

���� a.� "Agricultural 
development [areas] area" 
means [areas] any area 
identified by a county agricultural development board pursuant to the 
provisions of section 11 of [this 
act] P.L.1983, 
c.32 (C.4:1C-18) and certified by the State Agriculture Development 
Committee[;]. 

���� b.� �"Agricultural 
use" means the use of land for common farmsite activities, including but 
not limited to: production, harvesting, storage, grading, packaging, processing 
and the wholesale and retail marketing of crops, plants, animals and other related 
commodities and the use and application of techniques and methods of soil 
preparation and management, fertilization, weed, disease and pest control, 
disposal of farm waste, irrigation, drainage and water management, and grazing[;]. 

���� c.� "Board" means a 
county agriculture development board established pursuant to section 7 of 
P.L.1983, c.32 (C.4:1C-14), or a subregional agricultural retention board 
established pursuant to section 10 of [this 
act;] P.L.1983, 
c.32 (C.4:1C-17). 

���� d.� "Committee" 
means the State Agriculture Development Committee established pursuant to 
section 4 of the "Right to Farm Act," P.L.1983, c.31 (C. 4:1C-4)[;]. 

���� e. �� "Cost," as 
used with respect to cost of fee simple absolute title, development easements 
or soil and water conservation projects, includes, in addition to the usual 
connotations thereof[,]; any 
interest or discount on bonds; the cost of bond issuance [of bonds]; the cost of 
inspection, appraisal, legal, financial, and other professional services, 
estimates and advice; and the cost of organizational, administrative and other 
work and services, including salaries, supplies, equipment and materials 
necessary to administer [this 
act;] P.L.1983, 
c.32 (C.4:1C-11 et seq.). 

���� f.���� "Development 
easement" means an interest in land, less than fee simple absolute title 
thereto, which enables the owner to develop the land for any nonagricultural 
purpose as determined by the provisions of [this 
act;] P.L.1983, 
c.32 (C.4:1C-11 et seq.) and any relevant rules or regulations promulgated 
pursuant hereto[;]. 

���� g.��� "Development 
project" means any proposed construction or capital improvement for 
nonagricultural purposes[;]. 

���� h. �� "Farmland 
preservation program" or "municipally approved farmland preservation 
program" [(hereinafter 
referred to as] 
or �municipally approved program[)]� means 
any voluntary program, [the] established 
pursuant to section 14 of P.L.1983, c.32 (C.4:1C-21), which has a duration 
of [which 
is] at 
least 8 years, is authorized by law enacted subsequent to the effective 
date of the "Farmland Preservation Bond Act of 1981," P.L.1981, 
c.276, [which] and 
has, as its principal purpose, ensuring both the long-term 
preservation of significant masses of reasonably contiguous agricultural land 
within an agricultural development [areas 
adopted] 
area designated pursuant to [this 
act] P.L.1983, 
c.32 (C.4:1C-11 et seq.) and the maintenance and support of increased 
agricultural production as the first priority use of that land. [Any 
municipally approved program shall be established pursuant to section 14 of 
this act;]

���� i. ��� "Fund" means 
the "Farmland Preservation Fund" created pursuant to the 
"Farmland Preservation Bond Act of 1981," P.L.1981, c.276[;]. 

���� j.���� "Governing 
body" means, in the case of a county, the governing body of the county, 
and in the case of a municipality, the commission, council, board or body, by 
whatever name it may be known, having charge of the finances of the 
municipality[;]. 

���� k. �� "Secretary" 
means the Secretary of Agriculture[;]. 

���� l.���� "Soil and water 
conservation project" means any project designed for the control and 
prevention of soil erosion and sediment damages, the control of pollution on 
agricultural lands, the impoundment, storage and management of water