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Statutes > Missouri > T16 > C254 > 254_040Designation as forest croplands, application for--refusal, appealfrom--size of tract and value limitations.
254.040. 1. Any person desiring to have lands designated as forestcroplands shall submit an application to the state forester on formsprovided by the commission. The state forester shall make or cause to bemade an examination of the lands covered by such application and shallforward a copy of such application, together with his or herrecommendations, to the commission. If the commission approves andclassifies such lands as forest croplands, they shall be subject to theprovisions of this chapter and rules and regulations promulgated pursuantto this chapter.
2. If the commission refuses to accept and classify such lands, theapplicant may appeal the decision of the commission to the circuit court inwhich such lands, or major part of such lands, are located and the decisionof the circuit court in all such matters shall be final.
3. No application to designate lands as forest croplands shall beaccepted for a tract of land containing less than twenty acres; and no suchland shall be classified for tax relief if the value thereof shall exceedone hundred twenty-five dollars per acre or a greater value as set byregulation of the commission.
4. No application for the cost-share incentive program established insection 254.225 shall be accepted for lands designated as forest croplands.
(L. 1945 p. 672 § 5, A.L. 1974 H.B. 1210, A.L. 1981 H.B. 308, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1348)
