Landowner brought action against town, seeking a declaratory judgment that amendment to a statute rendered a prior injunction, which prohibited landowner from hosting commercial events on his farmland, a nullity.
The Superior Court entered judgment in favor of town. Landowner appealed.
The Supreme Court of Rhode Island held that landowner’s use of his farmland to host weddings for a fee was subject to town’s control.
Landowner’s use of his farmland to host weddings for a fee constituted a “nonagricultural” use under the Right to Farm Act, and therefore, was subject to town’s control; hosting weddings for a fee was an activity that fell outside the statutory definition of “agricultural operations.”