GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2015

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HOUSE BILL 378

Short Title:        Amd. Criteria/Certain Ag. Cost‑Share Pgms.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Representatives Whitmire, Holloway, West, and Presnell (Primary Sponsors). For a complete list of Sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly Web Site.
Referred to:	Agriculture.

March 30, 2015

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to provide alternate forms of documentation for participation in certain Agricultural Cost‑Share programs.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 106‑850(b)(10) reads as rewritten:

"(10)    To be eligible for cost share funds under this program, each applicant must establish that he or she is engaged in farming by providing any of the following to the Soil and Water Conservation Commission with his or her application:

a. A copy of the farm owner's or operator's federal tax Schedule F (Form 1040) or an equivalent form for the most recent tax year showing the owner's or operator's profit or loss from farming.

b. A copy of the farm's agricultural exemption certificate issued to the farm owner or operator by the Department of Revenue.

c. For forestland actively engaged in the commercial growing of trees under a sound management program as defined in G.S. 105‑277.2(6), a copy of the sound forest management plan described in G.S. 105‑277.3(g).meets the definition of a bona fide farm as described by G.S. 153A‑340(b)(2)."

SECTION 2.  G.S. 139‑60(c1) reads as rewritten:

"(c1)     To be eligible for assistance under this program, each applicant must establish that he or she is engaged in farming by providing to the Soil and Water Conservation Commission with his or her application:

(1) A copy of the farm owner's or operator's federal tax Schedule F (Form 1040) or an equivalent form for the most recent tax year showing the owner's or operator's profit or loss from farming.

(2) A copy of the farm's agricultural exemption certificate issued to the farm owner or operator by the Department of Revenue.

(3) For forestland actively engaged in the commercial growing of trees under a sound management program as defined in G.S. 105‑277.2(6), a copy of the sound forest management plan described in G.S. 105‑277.3(g).meets the definition of a bona fide farm as described by G.S. 153A‑340(b)(2)."

SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.