Q-2, r. 26 - Agricultural Operations Regulation

Section 50.3 Disposition versions

2022-09-01

50.3. No person may cultivate crops in the territory of a municipality listed in any of Schedules II to V. The prohibition does not apply to the following crop cultivation: trees, other than the types referred to in subparagraph 2.1 of the second paragraph, shrubs, blueberry, cranberry, strawberry or raspberry plants and vines.

Crop cultivation to which the prohibition applies is however authorized

(1)  in a raising site or spreading site situated in the territory of a municipality listed in Schedule II or III and existing on 16 December 2004, over an area that does not exceed the area of that site used for such crop cultivation during the 2004 growing season;

(2)  in a raising site or spreading site situated in the territory of a municipality listed in Schedule V and existing on 19 October 2005, over an area that does not exceed the area of that site used for such crop cultivation during the 2005 growing season;

(2.1)  in a raising site or spreading site situated in the territory of a municipality listed in Schedules II, III and V and existing on 26 April 2012 over an area that does not exceed the area of that site used for crop cultivation during the 2011 growing season for the cultivation of fruit trees or conifers cultivated and used for ornamental purposes and harvested without their root systems;

(3)  on land whose area used for crop cultivation does not exceed 1 ha; or

(4)  in an area previously occupied by a ditch, a farm road, a building or a man-made rock pile, in a raising site or spreading site situated in the territory of a municipality listed in Schedule II, III or V, provided that the crops are cultivated outside the littoral zone of a lake or watercourse and a 3 m strip from it.

O.C. 1098-2004, s. 7; O.C. 906-2005, s. 18; O.C. 606-2010, s. 30; O.C. 269-2012, s. 5; O.C. 1460-2022, s. 9.

2012-09-01

50.3. No person may cultivate crops in the territory of a municipality listed in any of Schedules II to V. The prohibition does not apply to the following crop cultivation: trees, other than the types referred to in subparagraph 2.1 of the second paragraph, shrubs, blueberry, cranberry, strawberry or raspberry plants and vines.

Crop cultivation to which the prohibition applies is however authorized

(1)  in a raising site or spreading site situated in the territory of a municipality listed in Schedule II or III and existing on 16 December 2004, over an area that does not exceed the area of that site used for such crop cultivation during the 2004 growing season;

(2)  in a raising site or spreading site situated in the territory of a municipality listed in Schedule V and existing on 19 October 2005, over an area that does not exceed the area of that site used for such crop cultivation during the 2005 growing season;

(2.1)  in a raising site or spreading site situated in the territory of a municipality listed in Schedules II, III and V and existing on 26 April 2012 over an area that does not exceed the area of that site used for crop cultivation during the 2011 growing season for the cultivation of fruit trees or conifers cultivated and used for ornamental purposes and harvested without their root systems; or

(3)  on land whose area used for crop cultivation does not exceed 1 hectare.

O.C. 1098-2004, s. 7; O.C. 906-2005, s. 18; O.C. 606-2010, s. 30; O.C. 269-2012, s. 5.