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intention of the committee?

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Sherbow.

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DELEGATE SHERBOW: I have used the words

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"bona fide farmer" because I am quoting the language of the

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Hanson amendment. The way in which to do this so that you

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will protect property is agricultural property is by the

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passage of what the committee has recommended. If you

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adopt the Hanson amendment, then you have said anybody who

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has got a farm that he owns, it must also be operated by

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bona fide farmers, and that settles it. Those words are

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there, the Legislature has nothing more to do. Now, I am

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trying to say, and I will repeat it over again, what we

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have got in the draft as it comes from Style and Drafting

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is the closest that you can come in the Constitution to

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protecting the proper bona fide, the real, farmer using his

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property for agricultural use. The owner of property, maybe

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it may be an estate, the farmer has just died. They want

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to keep the farm, they don't want to give it up. You can't

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do it under the Hanson amendment. It must be operated by a

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bona fide farmer.

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They might be waiting for a kid to get out of