For the purpose of providing assistance to all farm woodland and timber landowners in the state, including private ownership, and to promote the growing, managing and harvesting of timber thereon, and to provide organized forest fire protection in all counties, and to encourage the production and growth of timber on all lands suitable therefor, and […]
In order to carry out further the program herein authorized, the state forestry commission be and it is hereby authorized to organize, divide or set up forest districts and areas throughout the state, which districts and areas shall be so organized, divided or set up in accordance with the distribution of forest land and the […]
The board of supervisors of all counties are hereby directed to levy a special tax to be known as “the forest acreage tax.” Such tax shall be Two Cents (2¢) per acre on all timbered and uncultivatable lands in the county in order to receive the financial and supervisory cooperation of the State Forestry Commission […]
All forest acreage taxes assessed and collected by such levy as provided for in Section 49-19-115 shall be remitted to the forest acreage account in the State Treasury and shall be expended by the Forestry Commission as the commission may deem necessary in carrying out the purpose and intent of Sections 49-19-111 through 49-19-117. The […]
