Sec. 1. 7 MRSA §4205, sub-§3 is enacted to read:

3.__Industrialized farms within jurisdiction of the Maine Land Use Regulation Commission.__Notwithstanding this section, the Maine Land Use Regulation Commission may regulate a livestock operation that is an industrialized farm as defined in Title 12, section 682, subsection 19.

Sec. 2. 7 MRSA §4206, as enacted by PL 1997, c. 642, §2, is repealed.

Sec. 3. 12 MRSA §682, sub-§19 is enacted to read:

19.__Industrialized farm.__"Industrialized farm" means a farm owned by a corporation organized under the laws of any state of the United States or any country that is not a family farm corporation as defined in Title 10, section 9i.63-A, subsection 16.__"Industrialized farm" includii.es a family farm corporation when the farm is a livestock operatiii.ion and livestock is owiv.ned by a corporation or produced under contract for a corporation that iv.s not a family farm corporation.

Sec. 4. 12 MRSA §685-A, sub-§5, as amended by PL 1997, c. 642, §3, is further amended to read:

5. Considerations, application and exemptions. A land use standard may not deprive an owner or lessee or subsequent owner or lessee of any interest in real estate of the use to which it is lawfully devoted at the time of adoption of that standard. Year-round and seasonal single residences and operating farms in existence and use as of September 23, 1971, while so used, and new accessory buildings or structures or renovations of the buildings or structures that are or may be necessary to the satisfactory and comfortable continuation of these residential and farm uses are exempt from the requirements of section 685-B, subsection 1.

Land use standards adopted pursuant to this chapter for management districts may not limit the right, method or manner of cutting or removing timber or crops, the construction and maintenance of hauling roads, the operation of machinery or the erection of buildings and other structures used primarily for agricultural or commercial forest product purposes, including tree farms. Notwithstanding this subsection, a permit from the commission is required for roads covering a ground area of 3 acres or more constructed in management districts, unless those roads are constructed and maintained in accordance with the guidelines of the commission's Land Use Handbook, Section 6,