The director, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation, a board of county commissioners, or a board of township trustees may receive and expend grants from any public or private source for the purpose of purchasing agricultural easements and supervising and enforcing them. 5301.692 Local government authority to promote retaining agricultural use of land. The legislative authority of a municipal corporation, board of county commissioners of a county, or board of township trustees of a township, in addition to the legislative authority's or board's other powers, may hold land or interests in land for the purpose of retaining the use of the land predominantly in agriculture. 5301.70 Enforcement, assignment of easement. Conservation easements are not unenforceable for lack of privity of contract or estate or lack of benefit to a particular dominant estate.
Conservation easements are assignable to another entity authorized to hold conservation easements.
Nothing in sections 5301.67 to 5301.70 of the Revised Code affects the enforceability of any article of dedication, restriction, easement, covenant, or condition that does not meet the requirements of those sections. The terms of a conservation easement may be enforced by injunction or in any other civil action by the holder of the easement. Whoever violates section 5301.61 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.