Posted October 22, 2013
The State Law Clearinghouse, available here, is a free
resource provided by the National Agricultural Law Center.
The Clearinghouse is an ongoing project to
compile all state statutes that exist in specific topics of agricultural
law. State laws may vary widely from one
state to the next, even when the area of law is the same. This resource allows a researcher to obtain
targeted, state-specific information on the issue by providing a complete
statutory text along with the date of possible expiration.
Statute compilations posted to date include:
Agricultural liens, agritourism, alternative dispute resolution (ADR), animal
cruelty, animal identification, biofuels, climate change, farm animal
confinement, fence law, recreational use, and right-to-farm.
To use, simply click on a state and a drop down menu
will appear with the names of the topics of the statutes that have been
assembled for that state. From there,
click on the appropriate state, and a document will open with the applicable
information. If a topic is missing from
a state’s drop down menu, laws on that topic have not yet been passed in that
state.
