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Draft 1 - March 16, 1995 <br /> Submitted by the Treasurer/Tax Collector <br /> Explanation-, At the present time, employees who must use their own vehicles for <br /> Town business do not receive reimbursement equivalent to the actual cost of using <br /> their vehicle, (the present standard mileage rate of the Internal Revenue Service is <br /> thirty cents ($.30) per mile). They are at a disadvantage compared to employees <br /> who have the use of a Town vehicle. <br /> Article 43. GUM I <br /> To see if the Town wi vote to amend S ction 9A. of Chapter 172 to add the <br /> following definitions: <br /> (12) Land in agricultural se means 1 d within resource areas and/or the buffer <br /> zone presently and p ' arily u din producing or raising one or more of the <br /> following agricultural co o ties for commercial purposes: <br /> a. animals, including but n t limited to livestock, poultry and bees; <br /> b. fruits, vegetables, be 'es, nuts and other foods for human consumption; <br /> c. feed, seed, forage., t9 acc flowers, sod, nursery or greenhouse products <br /> and ornamental plats ors bs; and <br /> d. forest products under a plane program to improve the quantity and <br /> quality of a cont�iuos crop, <br /> i <br /> Additiona4.y, land in a ricultu 1 use means land within resource areas <br /> and/or the buff/6r zone presently an primarily used in a manner directly <br /> related to and,�ustomarily and necessa 'ly used in, producing or raising such <br /> commodities, including: existing acc s roads and livestock crossings; <br /> windbreaks; hedgerows; field edges; bee ards; sand pits; fence lines; water <br /> management projects (such as reservoirs, farm ponds, irrigation systems, <br /> field ditches, cross ditches, canals/channe , grass waterways, dikes, sub- <br /> surface drainage systems, watering facilities, water transport systems, water <br /> storage systems); agricultural composting sites; gricultural. storage and work <br /> areas; and land under farm structures. <br /> Land, in agricultural use does NOT includ Waterways and/or Great <br /> Ponds, as defined in 310 CMR 9.02 and 9.04-6 A adromous/Catadromous <br /> �sh Run (or banks] thereo f as defined in 3 10 C 10.35(2)(c); Rivers, as <br /> efined in 3 10 CMR 10.04; and freshwater wetlands (as defined in 3 10 CMR <br /> 10.04), unless said Waterways, Great Ponds, Anadromous/Catadromous <br /> F <br /> ish Runs (or banks thereof), Rivers or freshwater wetlands (or portions <br /> Page 18 <br />