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the director shall assign the value of the lowest agricultural use <br /> category that the land could qualify for if it were to be put into <br /> agricultural use. <br /> SECTION 3. Chapter 19, article 7, section 19-55 of the Hawaii County <br /> Code 1983 (1995 edition), relating to Dedicated Lands is amended to read as <br /> <br /> follows: <br /> Section 19-55. [Dedicated lands] Reserved. <br /> [(a) A special land reserve is established to enable the owner of any parcel of <br /> land within an agricultural district, a rural district, a conservation district, or <br /> any urban district to dedicate his or her land for a specific ranching or <br /> other agricultural use and to have his or her land assessed at its value in <br /> such use provided, that if the land is located within an urban district: <br /> (1) A lessee of the land with a term of ten or more years remaining <br /> from the date of the petition shall also be deemed an owner of the <br /> land within these provisions; <br /> (2) The land dedicated must be used for the cultivation of crops such <br /> as sugar cane, pineapple, truck crops, orchard crops, ornamental <br /> crops, or the like, or tree farms; <br /> (3) The land dedicated must have been substantially and continuously <br /> used for the cultivation of crops such as sugar cane, pineapple, <br /> truck crops, orchard crops, ornamental crops, or the like, or tree <br /> farms, for the five-year period immediately preceding the dedication <br /> request; provided further, that land situated within an agricultural <br /> district may be dedicated for a period of twenty years and shall be <br /> taxed at fifty percent of its assessed value in such use. <br /> (b) If any owner desires to use his or her land for a specific ranching or other <br /> agricultural use and to have his or her land taxed at its assessed value in <br /> this use or fifty percent of its assessed value as the case may be, the <br /> owner shall so petition the director of finance and declare in his or her <br /> petition that his or her land can best be used for the purpose for which he <br /> or she requests permission to dedicate his or her land that if the petition is <br /> approved he will use his or her land for this purpose. <br /> (c) If the owner desires to change from one specific ranching or other <br /> agricultural use to another ranching or other agricultural use the owner <br /> shall so petition the director of finance and declare in the petition that: <br /> 10 <br /> <br />