{"data":{"id":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-2-23-2","jurisdiction":"us-ri","citation":"R.I. Gen. Laws § 2-23-2","heading":"Legislative findings.","body":"The general assembly finds:\n(1) That agricultural operations are valuable to the state’s economy and the general welfare of the state’s people;\n(2) That agricultural operations are adversely affected by the random encroachment of urban land uses throughout rural areas of the state;\n(3) That, as one result of this random encroachment, conflicts have arisen between traditional agricultural land uses and urban land uses; and\n(4) That conflicts between agricultural and urban land uses threaten to force the abandonment of agricultural operations and the conversion of agricultural resources to non-agricultural land uses, whereby these resources are permanently lost to the economy and the human and physical environments of the state.","path":["Title 2 Agriculture and Forestry","Chapter 23 Right to Farm"],"source_url":"https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE2/2-23/2-23-2.htm","current_through":"site files published 2025-08-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T14:18:00Z","sha256":"69321b32c02380969240aed2f59819ed5cb17eb2d84daa01ac9bcfee722e561c","source_id":"us-ri","stale":true,"prev":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-2-23-1","next":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-2-23-3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}