Legislative Victory! Agricultural Classification for Horse Boarding is Now the Law.
The Minnesota Horse Council applauds the decision of Minnesota legislators to pass 2010 legislation which promotes fair and equitable property tax classification for Minnesota horse boarding businesses.
The Minnesota Horse Council sponsored and successfully lobbied for the 2010 bill, which will mean that many horse businesses which were threatened with having their agricultural status changed to commercial will now be able to keep their agricultural status.
Minn. Stat. 273.13 Subd. 23(i) is now amended to read:
(3) The commercial boarding of horses, which may include related horse training and riding instruction, if the boarding is done on property that is also used for raising pasture to graze horses or raising or cultivating other agricultural products as defined in clause (1).
For more details on the need for this bill and the action taken by the Minnesota Horse Council, see our July-August newsletter, “For Horse’s Sake,” at http://www.mnhorsecouncil.org/docs/mhc-newsletter-july-aug10-email.pdf.
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