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"agricultural property" as defined gives a very wide

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discretion to the Legislature to define "agriculture" and

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impose many other tests besides that of use so that use no

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longer remains the absolute or only test.

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THE PRESIDENT: Are there any further questions

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of the committee chairman?

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Delegate Adkins.

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DELEGATE ADKINS: I should like to pose a

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specific question to the chairman and ask him whether or not

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the language of the proposed amendment here is broad enough

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to permit the Legislature to define as "agricultural

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property" that property which is zoned either residential

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or industrial but, in fact, is used for a bona fide

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agricultural use. In other words, if the property is zoned

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as other than agricultural, may the Legislature still

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provide a definition which would permit that property to be

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included as agricultural?

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Penniman.

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DELEGATE PENNIMAN: I don't think that I can

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answer that question.

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THE PRESIDENT: I think that is more properly a