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to a non-qualifying use or when the acreage of a qualifying tract is changed. The roll-back tax, plus ten per cent interest, applies in the tax year in which the change in use occurs and for the five tax-years immediately preceding.
A locality may elect to allow land use for all or any combination of four categories—agricultural, forestal, horticultural and open space.
For agricultural and horticultural land, the tract must be at least five acres that have been devoted for at least five consecutive previous years to bona fide agricultural or horticultural use. The land must be in a planned program of soil management and conservation practices. Field crop production must be primarily for commercial uses with crop yields averaging at least */j the county average during the three years previous. Land used primarily for commercial livestock production must have had a minimum of 12 animal-unit months of commercial livestock or poultry per five acres of open land in the previous year.
Horticultural land may be used for production of nursery, greenhouse, cutflower or plant material or for orchard, vineyard and small fruit production.
To qualify for forest use, the tract must be a minimum of 20 acres which has on it well distributed, commercially valuable trees ol any size sufficient to compose at least 40 per cent stocking of normal forest trees or formerly having such tree cover and not currently developed for non-forest use.
Standards for open space require a minimum of five acres in a use consistent with the land use plan of the locality. The land must be deliberately provided and maintained for park or recreational type lands, golf
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