Section 10-6-31.3 - Criteria for classification of land as agricultural.
10-6-31.3. Criteria for classification of land as agricultural. For tax purposes, land is agricultural land if it meets two of the following three criteria:
(1) At least thirty-three and one-third percent of the total family gross income of the owner is derived from the pursuit of agriculture as defined in subdivision (2) of this section or it is a state-owned public shooting area or a state-owned game production area as identified in § 41-4-8 and it is owned and managed by the Department of Game, Fish and Parks;
(2) Its principal use is devoted to the raising and harvesting of crops or timber or fruit trees, the rearing, feeding, and management of farm livestock, poultry, fish, or nursery stock, the production of bees and apiary products, or horticulture, all for intended profit pursuant to subdivision (1) of this section. Agricultural real estate also includes woodland, wasteland, and pasture land, but only if the land is held and operated in conjunction with agricultural real estate as defined and it is under the same ownership;
(3) It consists of not less than twenty acres of unplatted land or is a part of a contiguous ownership of not less than eighty acres of unplatted land. The same acreage specifications apply to platted land, excluding land platted as a subdivision, which is in an unincorporated area. However, the board of county commissioners may increase the minimum acre requirement up to one hundred sixty acres.
Source: SL 1979, ch 65; SL 1991, ch 81; SL 1992, ch 77; SL 1992, ch 78; SL 1993, ch 83; SL 1998, ch 51, § 7; SL 2008, ch 44, § 18, eff. July 1, 2009.