Bill Text: NC H586 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

---

Bill Title: PUV/Repeal Forest Planning Requirement

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-08 - Ref to the Com on Agriculture, if favorable, Finance [H586 Detail]

Download: North_Carolina-2013-H586-Amended.html

---

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2013

H                                                                                                                                                    1

HOUSE BILL 586

 

 

Short Title:        PUV/Repeal Forest Planning Requirement.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Representatives Pittman, Ford, and J. Bell (Primary Sponsors). For a complete list of Sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly Web Site.
Referred to:	Agriculture, if favorable, Finance.

April 8, 2013

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to preserve the freedom of owners of forestland in the Present-use value property tax reduction program to manage their property as they see fit.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 105‑277.2(2) reads as rewritten:

"§ 105‑277.2.  Agricultural, horticultural, and forestland – Definitions.

The following definitions apply in G.S. 105‑277.3 through G.S. 105‑277.7:

…

(2)        Forestland. – Land that is a part of a forest unit that is actively engaged in the commercial growing of trees under a sound management program.trees. Forestland includes wasteland that is a part of the forest unit, but the wasteland included in the unit must be appraised under the use‑value schedules as wasteland. A forest unit may consist of more than one tract of forestland, but at least one of the tracts must meet the requirements in G.S. 105‑277.3(a)(3), and each tract must be under a sound management program.G.S. 105‑277.3(a)(3).

…."

SECTION 2.  G.S. 105‑277.3(g) is repealed.

SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2013.