The Senate Natural Resources and Agriculture Committee and the Assembly Agriculture and Environment Committee are designated as the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Agricultural Retention and Development. The duties and responsibilities of the joint oversight committee shall be as follows:

a. To monitor the operation of the committee and its efforts to retain farmland in productive agricultural use and to recommend to the committee any rule, regulation, guideline, or revision thereto which it deems necessary to effectuate the purposes and provisions of this act;

b. To review and evaluate the implementation of development easement purchases on agricultural land;

c. To review and evaluate all relevant existing and proposed statutes, rules, regulations and ordinances, so as to determine their individual effect upon the conduct of agricultural activities in this State; and

d. To recommend to the Legislature any legislation which it deems necessary in order to effectuate the purposes of this act.

L.1983, c. 32, s. 30, eff. Jan. 26, 1983, operative Jan. 26, 1983.