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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6962
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     April 17, 2012
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture
 
        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to  includ-
          ing  certain  commercial  equine  operations in the definition of land
          used in agricultural production
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-

        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  The  opening paragraph of subdivision 4 of section 301 of
     2  the agriculture and markets law, as separately amended by  chapters  445
     3  and 696 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
     4    "Land used in agricultural production" means not less than seven acres
     5  of  land  used  as a single operation in the preceding two years for the
     6  production for sale of crops, livestock  or  livestock  products  of  an
     7  average  gross sales value of ten thousand dollars or more; or, not less
     8  than seven acres of land used in the preceding two years  to  support  a
     9  commercial  horse  boarding  operation  or a commercial equine operation
    10  with annual gross receipts of ten thousand dollars or more. Land used in
    11  agricultural production shall not include land or portions thereof  used

    12  for processing or retail merchandising of such crops, livestock or live-
    13  stock products. Land used in agricultural production shall also include:
    14    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    15  have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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