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fide farm."

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At another place the spokesman said, "This en-

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visages the General Assembly passing a definitional law

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which will either itself define what a farm is or is not or

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delegate authority to make that definition to the Department

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of Revenue or Assessments and Taxation."

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We then got into a discussion of the Alsop case

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and the spokesman said it was the intention of the committee

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to change this and to give the Legislature or the Department

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of Assessments and Taxation the right to say what is a farm,

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In the colloquy that ensued beginning at pages 7115 the

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question was asked about the ability to define agricultural

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use and the reply was that the sum total of it is that the

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administrator of the department says that it can be done.

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The committee went on to argue that a persuasive case had

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been made for allowing this particular preferential assess-

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ment for farmers, but we got then into what I think is the

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crux of the issue.

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In answer to questions from Delegate Henderson

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and the Chairman, the committee spokesman at that point was

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asked by the chairman the following question: If you had