The purpose of these State Farmland Access Program Rules and Regulations is to establish the procedure by which the Department of Environmental Management will purchase available farm properties from willing sellers and permanently protect said properties to facilitate their affordable transfer to eligible farmers with the funds from these transfers being returned to the program account for re-use to acquire additional farm properties. No eminent domain will be employed by the Department in the execution of this program.
250 R.I. Code R. 250-RICR-110-00-8.1