Bill Text: AZ SB1183 | 2011 | Fiftieth Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Agricultural property tax classification; equine

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 13-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-23 - Senate Committee of the Whole action: Retained [SB1183 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2011-SB1183-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: agricultural property tax classification; equine

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fiftieth Legislature

First Regular Session

2011

 

 

SB 1183

 

Introduced by

Senators Pierce S, Allen, Griffin, Nelson; Representative Carter: Senators Barto, Biggs, Bundgaard, Klein; Representatives Brophy McGee, Crandell, Pratt, Yee

 

 

AN ACT

 

Amending section 42-12151, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to agricultural property tax.

 

 

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 42-12151, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE42-12151.  Definition of agricultural real property

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires, "agricultural real property" means real property that is one or more of the following:

1.  Cropland in the aggregate of at least twenty gross acres.

2.  An aggregate ten or more gross acres of permanent crops.

3.  Grazing land with a minimum carrying capacity of forty animal units and containing an economically feasible number of animal units.

4.  Land and improvements devoted to commercial breeding, raising, boarding or training equine, as defined in section 3-1201.

4.  5.  Land and improvements devoted to high density use for producing commodities.

5.  6.  Land and improvements devoted to use in processing cotton necessary for marketing.

6.  7.  Land and improvements devoted to use in processing wine grapes for marketing.

7.  8.  Land and improvements devoted to use in processing citrus for marketing.

8.  9.  Land and improvements devoted to use as fruit or vegetable commodity packing plants and that do not cut or otherwise physically alter the produce.

9.  10.  Land and improvements owned by a dairy cooperative devoted to high density use in producing, transporting, receiving, processing, storing, marketing and selling milk and manufactured milk products without the presence of any animal units on the land. END_STATUTE