Bill Text: MO HB1860 | 2012 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

Missouri House Bill 1860 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Changes the laws regarding agricultural education in private schools, grain dealers, and agricultural crimes

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-05-16 - Public Hearing Scheduled (S) - THURSDAY, MAY 17,9:45AM PERSHING CONFERENCE RM [HB1860 Detail]

Download: Missouri-2012-HB1860-Comm_Sub.html

SECOND REGULAR SESSION

SENATE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL NO. 1860

AND

HOUSE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL NO. 1254

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Reported from the Committee on Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources, May10, 2012, with recommendation that the Senate Committee Substitute do pass.

TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.

5978S.05C

AN ACT

To repeal sections 569.140 and 575.010, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof nine new sections relating to agriculture, with penalty provisions.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Sections 569.140 and 575.010, RSMo, are repealed and nine new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 262.005, 262.900, 537.850, 537.856, 537.859, 569.140, 575.010, 575.124, and 578.660, to read as follows:

262.005. 1. Agriculture which provides food, energy, and security is the foundation and stabilizing force of Missouri's economy. To protect this vital sector of Missouri's economy, it shall be the right of persons to raise livestock, as defined in section 144.010, and poultry in a manner adhering to state and local laws and ordinances.

2. Nothing in this section shall be construed or interpreted to limit the authority of the department of agriculture or the state veterinarian to carry out the department's statutory and regulatory responsibilities and functions as currently and hereafter provided under chapters 261 to 281, chapter 350 and chapters 411 to 414 and all rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

262.900. 1. As used in this section, the following terms mean:

(1) "Agricultural products", an agricultural, horticultural, viticultural, or vegetable product, growing of grapes that will be processed into wine, bees, honey, fish or other aquacultural product, planting seed, livestock, a livestock product, a forestry product, poultry or a poultry product, either in its natural or processed state, that has been produced, processed, or otherwise had value added to it in this state;

(2) "Blighted area", that portion of the city within which the legislative authority of such city determines that by reason of age, obsolescence, inadequate or outmoded design or physical deterioration have become economic and social liabilities, and that such conditions are conducive to ill health, transmission of disease, crime, or inability to pay reasonable taxes;

(3) "Domesticated animal", cattle, calves, sheep, swine, ratite birds including but not limited to ostrich and emu, llamas, alpaca, buffalo, elk documented as obtained from a legal source and not from the wild, goats, or horses, other equines, or rabbits raised in confinement for human consumption;

(4) "Grower UAZ", a type of UAZ:

(a) That can either grow produce, raise livestock, or produce other value-added agricultural products;

(b) That does not exceed fifty laying hens, six hundred fifty broiler chickens, or thirty domesticated animals;

(5) "Livestock", cattle, calves, sheep, swine, ratite birds including but not limited to ostrich and emu, aquatic products as defined in section 277.024, llamas, alpaca, buffalo, elk documented as obtained from a legal source and not from the wild, goats, or horses, other equines, or rabbits raised in confinement for human consumption;

(6) "Locally grown", a product that was grown or raised in the same county as the UAZ or in an adjoining county. For a product raised or sold in a city not within a county, locally grown includes those counties adjoining a county with a charter form of government and with more than nine hundred fifty thousand inhabitants;

(7) "Processing UAZ", a type of UAZ:

(a) That processes livestock or poultry for human consumption;

(b) That meets federal and state processing laws and standards;

(8) "Meat", any edible portion of a livestock or poultry carcass or part thereof;

(9) "Meat product", anything containing meat intended for or capable of use for human consumption, which is derived, in whole or in part, from livestock or poultry;

(10) "Poultry", any domesticated bird intended for human consumption;

(11) "Value-added agricultural products", any product or products that are the result of:

(a) Using an agricultural product grown in this state to produce a meat or dairy product in this state;

(b) A change in the physical state or form of the original agricultural product;

(c) An agricultural product grown in this state whose value has been enhanced by special production methods such as organically grown products; or

(d) A physical segregation of a commodity or agricultural product grown in this state that enhances its value such as identity preserved marketing systems;

(12) "Urban agricultural zone" or "UAZ", a zone that contains the following activities to qualify for the benefits provided under this section:

(a) Any organization or person who grows produce or other agricultural products;

(b) Any organization or person that raises livestock or poultry;

(d) Any organization that sells at a minimum seventy-five percent locally grown food;

(13) "Vending UAZ", a type of UAZ:

(a) That sells produce, meat, or locally grown value-added agricultural products;

(b) That applies to the department of agriculture for an UAZ vendor license;

2. (1) A person or organization shall submit to any incorporated municipality an application to develop an UAZ on a blighted area of land. Such application shall demonstrate or identify on the application:

(a) If the person or organization is a grower UAZ, processing UAZ, vending UAZ, or a combination of all three types of UAZs provided in this paragraph, in which case the person or organization shall meet the requirements of each type of UAZ in order to qualify;

(b) The number of jobs to be created;

(d) If applying for a vending UAZ, the ability to accept food stamps under the provisions of the Federal Food Stamp Program if selling products to consumers.

(2) A municipality shall review and modify the application as necessary before either approving or denying the request to establish a UAZ.

(3) Approval of the UAZ by such municipality shall be reviewed five and ten years after the development of the UAZ. After twenty-five years, the UAZ shall dissolve. If the municipality finds during its review that the UAZ is not meeting the requirements set out in this section, the municipality may dissolve the UAZ.

3. Once the requirements of this section have been complied with, the real property of the UAZ shall not be subject to assessment or payment of ad valorem taxes on real property imposed by the cities affected by this section, or by the state or any political subdivision thereof, for a period of ten years at which time the property shall then be reassessed. The UAZ shall then pay fifty percent of the assessed value for the next fifteen years. If only a portion of real property is used as a UAZ, then only that portion of real property shall not be subject to assessment or payment of ad valorem taxes on such property.

4. If the water services for the UAZ are provided by the municipality, a grower UAZ shall pay wholesale water rates, if available, for the cost of water consumed on the UAZ and shall pay fifty percent of the standard cost to hook onto the water source.

5. (1) Any sales tax revenues received from the sale of products sold in the UAZ, excluding sales taxes that are constitutionally dedicated, taxes deposited to the school district trust fund in accordance with section 144.701, sales and use taxes on motor vehicles, trailers, boats, and outboard motors, and future sales taxes earmarked by law, shall be deposited in the urban agricultural zone fund established in subdivision (2) of this subsection. School districts may apply to the state treasurer for money in the fund to be used for the development of curriculum on or the implementation of urban farming practices under the guidance of the University of Missouri extension service and a certified vocational agricultural instructor. The funds are to be distributed within the school district in which the UAZ is located.

(2) There is hereby created in the state treasury the "Urban Agricultural Zone Fund", which shall consist of money collected under subdivision (1) of this subsection. The state treasurer shall be custodian of the fund. In accordance with sections 30.170 and 30.180, the state treasurer may approve disbursements. The fund shall be a dedicated fund and, upon appropriation, money in the fund shall be used solely for the administration of subdivision (1) of this subsection. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080 to the contrary, any moneys remaining in the fund at the end of the biennium shall not revert to the credit of the general revenue fund. The state treasurer shall invest moneys in the fund in the same manner as other funds are invested. Any interest and moneys earned on such investments shall be credited to the fund.

6. The provisions in this section shall supercede any local ordinances to the contrary.

537.850. 1. Sections 537.850 to 537.859 shall be known and may be cited as the "Agritourism Promotion Act".

2. As used in sections 537.850 to 537.859, the following terms shall mean:

(1) "Agritourism activity", any activity which allows members of the general public for recreational, entertainment, or educational purposes to view or enjoy rural activities, including but not limited to farming activities, ranching activities, or historic, cultural, or natural attractions. An activity may be an agritourism activity whether or not the participant pays to participate in the activity. An activity is not an agritourism activity if the participant is paid to participate in the activity;

(2) "Department", the state department of agriculture;

(3) "Director", the director of the department of agriculture;

(4) "Inherent risks of a registered agritourism activity", those dangers or conditions which are an integral part of such agritourism activity, including but not limited to certain hazards such as surface and subsurface conditions; natural conditions of land, vegetation, and waters; the behavior of wild or domestic animals; and ordinary dangers of structures or equipment ordinarily used in farming or ranching operations. Inherent risks of a registered agritourism activity also includes the potential of a participant to act in a negligent manner that may contribute to injury to the participant or others, such as failing to follow instructions given by the registered agritourism operator or failing to exercise reasonable caution while engaging in the registered agritourism activity;

(5) "Participant", any person who engages in a registered agritourism activity;

(6) "Registered agritourism activity", any agritourism activity that is registered with the director of the department of agriculture as an AgriMissouri member under section 261.230, and any rules promulgated thereunder;

(7) "Registered agritourism location", a specific parcel of land which is registered with the director of the department of agriculture under section 261.230, and any rules promulgated thereunder, and where a registered agritourism operator engages in registered agritourism activities;

(8) "Registered agritourism operator", any person who is engaged in the business of providing one or more agritourism activities and is registered with the director of the department of agriculture as an AgriMissouri member under section 261.230, and any rules promulgated thereunder.

537.856. 1. At every registered agritourism location, the registered agritourism operator shall post and maintain signage which contains the warning notice specified in subsection 3 of this section. The requirements of this section shall be deemed satisfied if such signage is placed in a clearly visible location at or near the registered agritourism location. The warning notice shall appear on the sign in black letters, with each letter to be at least one inch in height.

2. Every written contract entered into by a registered agritourism operator for the providing of a registered agritourism activity shall contain in clearly readable print the warning notice and language specified in subsection 3 of this section.

3. The required signage under this section shall contain the following warning notice:

"WARNING: Under Missouri law, there is no liability for an injury or death of a participant in a registered agritourism activity conducted at this registered agritourism location if such injury or death results from the inherent risks of such agritourism activity. Inherent risks of agritourism activities include, but are not limited to, the potential of you as a participant to act in a negligent manner that may contribute to your injury or death and the potential of another participant to act in a negligent manner that may contribute to your injury or death. You are assuming the risk of participating in this registered agritourism activity.".

4. Upon request, the registered agritourism operator shall provide to any participant a written description of the registered agritourism activity, as set forth in the registration under subdivision (6) of subsection 2 of section 537.850 for which sections 537.850 to 537.859 limit the registered agritourism operator's liability at the registered agritourism location.

537.859. 1. Except as provided in subsection 2 of this section, a registered agritourism operator is not liable for injury to or death of a participant resulting from the inherent risks of agritourism activities so long as the warning contained in section 537.856 is posted as required and, except as provided in subsection 2 of this section, no participant or participant's representative shall maintain an action against or recover from a registered agritourism operator for injury, loss, damage, or death of the participant resulting exclusively from any of the inherent risks of agritourism activities.

2. Nothing in sections 537.850 to 537.859 shall prevent or limit the liability of a registered agritourism operator if the registered agritourism operator:

(1) Injures the participant by willful or wanton conduct;

(2) Has actual knowledge or should have known of a dangerous condition in the facilities or equipment used in the registered agritourism activity and does not make such dangerous condition known to a participant and such dangerous condition causes the participant to sustain injuries; or

(3) Fails to use that degree of care that an ordinarily careful and prudent person would use under the same or similar circumstances.

3. In any action for damages for personal injury, death, or property damage arising from the operation of a registered tourism activity in which an owner or operator is named as a defendant, it shall be an affirmative defense to that liability that:

(1) The injured person assumed the risk;

(2) The injured person deliberately disregarded conspicuously posted signs, verbal instructions, or other warnings regarding safety measures during the activity; or

(3) Any equipment, animals, or appliance used by the injured person during the activity were used in a manner or for a purpose other than that for which a reasonable person should have known they were intended.

569.140. 1. A person commits the crime of trespass in the first degree if he knowingly enters unlawfully or knowingly remains unlawfully in a building or inhabitable structure or upon real property.

2. A person does not commit the crime of trespass in the first degree by entering or remaining upon real property unless the real property is fenced or otherwise enclosed in a manner designed to exclude intruders or as to which notice against trespass is given by:

(1) Actual communication to the actor; or

(2) Posting in a manner reasonably likely to come to the attention of intruders.

3. Trespass in the first degree is a class [B] A misdemeanor.

575.010. The following definitions shall apply to this chapter and chapter 576:

(1) "Affidavit" means any written statement which is authorized or required by law to be made under oath, and which is sworn to before a person authorized to administer oaths;

(2) "Government" means any branch or agency of the government of this state or of any political subdivision thereof;

(3) "Highway" means any public road or thoroughfare for vehicles, including state roads, county roads and public streets, avenues, boulevards, parkways or alleys in any municipality;

(4) "Judicial proceeding" means any official proceeding in court, or any proceeding authorized by or held under the supervision of a court;

(5) "Juror" means a grand or petit juror, including a person who has been drawn or summoned to attend as a prospective juror;

(6) "Jury" means a grand or petit jury, including any panel which has been drawn or summoned to attend as prospective jurors;

(7) "Official proceeding" means any cause, matter, or proceeding where the laws of this state require that evidence considered therein be under oath or affirmation;

(8) "Police animal" means a dog, horse or other animal used in law enforcement or a correctional facility, or by a municipal police department, fire department, search and rescue unit or agency, whether the animal is on duty or not on duty. The term shall include, but not be limited to, accelerant detection dogs, bomb detection dogs, narcotic detection dogs, search and rescue dogs and tracking animals;

(9) "Public record" means any document which a public servant is required by law to keep;

(10) "Public servant", any person employed in any way by the state or political subdivision of this state who is compensated by the state or political subdivision of this state by reason of such person's employment, any person appointed to a position with the state or any political subdivision of this state, or any person elected to a position with the state or any political subdivision of this state. Public servant includes, but is not limited to, members of the general assembly, jurors, members of the judiciary, law enforcement officers, and state inspectors employed by state agencies. Public servant does not include witnesses;

(11) "Testimony" means any oral statement under oath or affirmation;

[(11)] (12) "Victim" means any natural person against whom any crime is deemed to have been perpetrated or attempted;

[(12)] (13) "Witness" means any natural person:

(a) Having knowledge of the existence or nonexistence of facts relating to any crime; or

(b) Whose declaration under oath is received as evidence for any purpose; or

(d) Who has been served with a subpoena issued under the authority of any court of this state.

575.124. 1. No person shall attempt by means of any threat or violence to deter or prevent an inspector, agent, or other employee of the department of agriculture from performing any duties imposed by law upon such inspector, agent, or employee or the department.

2. Any person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a class B misdemeanor. Any second or subsequent violation of this section is a class A misdemeanor.

578.660. 1. As used in this section, the following terms shall mean:

(1) "Farm animal", an animal raised on a farm or ranch and used or intended for use in farm or ranch production, or as food or fiber;

(2) "Farm animal professional", any individual employed at a location where farm animals are harbored;

(3) "Harbor", to feed or shelter an animal at the same location for three or more consecutive days.

2. Whenever any farm animal professional videotapes or otherwise makes a digital recording of what he or she believes to depict a farm animal subjected to abuse or neglect under sections 578.009 or 578.012, such farm animal professional shall have a duty to submit such videotape or digital recording to a law enforcement agency within twenty-four hours of the recording.

3. No videotape or digital recording submitted under subsection 2 of this section shall be spliced, edited, or manipulated in any way prior to its submission.

4. A violation of any provision of this section is a class A misdemeanor.

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