40. In a reserved area, a natural person whose principal occupation is agriculture may, without the authorization of the commission, erect on a lot which he owns and where he carries on his principal occupation a residence for himself, for his child or for his employee.
A legal person or partnership that carries on agricultural operations may also erect a residence for a shareholder or member whose principal occupation is agriculture on a lot which is owned by that legal person, partnership, shareholder or member and where that shareholder or member carries on his principal occupation.
A legal person or partnership that carries on agricultural operations may also erect, on such a lot, a residence for a child of the shareholder or member or for an employee assigned to the agricultural operations of the legal person or partnership.
Erecting a residence under this section does not exempt the lot or part of a lot on which it is erected from the application of sections 28 to 30.
1978, c. 10, s. 40; 1982, c. 40, s. 9; 1985, c. 26, s. 15; 1989, c. 7, s. 17; 1999, c. 40, s. 235; 2017, c. 132017, c. 13, s. 19011.