(a) If any real property owned by a local government, where a written agreement was executed allowing adjoining private property owners to utilize the local government's real property for agricultural use when the property was transferred by execution of a quitclaim deed to the local government, is then sold or transferred to another local government or to a state agency, then the written agreement shall continue to be valid.(b) Any local government transferring or selling real property as described in subsection (a) shall give written notice to any affected private property owners thirty (30) days prior to the sale or transfer.(c) If any private property owner is required to cease agricultural use of any real property that is sold or transferred to a state agency pursuant to subsection (a), then the state agency shall be responsible for providing information regarding potential grant funding for fencing and watering livestock and may work with the owner to seek such funding, if such funding is available; provided, that the owner shall be responsible for maintaining any of the resulting improvements.Added by 2015 Tenn. Acts, ch. 496,s 1, eff. 5/20/2015.
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