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November 20, 2012 Page 2 (3) The subject property must have an existing legal access to a public highway,which may be via a private road or easement, and new driveways shall meet applicable county or state standards; (4) New and existing facilities to be utilized principally for the agricultural tourism activity, including tents and canopies,shall be clearly indicated on the plot plan and shall not exceed one thousand square feet in total area, not including parking and vehicular accesses; and (5) Proof, acceptable to the director, of income from agricultural activities and/or agricultural products processing, or investment, as required under section 25-4- 15(d)(1)." 2. Section 25-4-15 of Bill No. 266, Draft 5, is amended by amending subsection(d)to read as follows: "(d) Agricultural tourism operations shall comply with the following regulations: (1) For major agricultural tourism, the agricultural activity or agricultural products processing facility must have a minimum of$10,000 in verifiable gross sales, exclusive of any income from agricultural tourism activities or any other non-agricultural activities, for the year preceding the commencement of the agricultural tourism activity or, in the case of a new agricultural activity or agricultural products processing facility,provide evidence to the director's satisfaction that sufficient investment has been made in the planting of crops, acquisition of livestock, or construction of agricultural products processing facilities, that the agricultural activity or agricultural processing facility will achieve the minimum required gross sales. Major agricultural tourism operations shall have a maximum of seven hundred visitors per week not to exceed thirty thousand visitors annually[#]. Major agricultural tourism operations may hold one event per calendar year that may be attended by up to, but no more than seven hundred visitors on a single day;