CHAPTER 4-21
TREE BOUNTY
4-21-01. Bounty for tree planting - Amount - Deduction of taxes. A bounty must be
paid out of the general fund of the county to any person who plants or has planted any kind of<br>forest trees upon prairie land within the county, and who cultivates such trees and keeps them in<br>a growing and thrifty condition. The bounty must be in the amount of four dollars per acre [.40<br>hectare] in the year in which the trees are first planted and cultivated and in the additional<br>amount of two dollars per acre [.40 hectare] for each succeeding year, not exceeding four years,<br>in which the trees are kept well-cultivated and in a growing condition. No bounty may be paid<br>under this section unless at least one acre [.40 hectare] has been planted to trees and may not<br>be paid on more than ten acres [4.05 hectares], nor unless the grove is maintained upon a tract<br>of land of not less than eighty acres [32.38 hectares] in area, nor unless there are at least four<br>hundred living trees in a healthy and growing condition upon each acre [.40 hectare] of land for<br>which the bounty is claimed. No bounty may be paid in any year in excess of the amount of real<br>estate taxes levied for the year in which the bounty is claimed, upon the quarter section of land of<br>which the parcel of land planted to trees is a part.
4-21-02.
Bounty for planting trees or hedges along highways - Regulations
governing. Every person planting such forest trees or trees suitable for a hedge in rows as<br>boundary lines along the public highways or on any other portion of the person's premises, if<br>such rows contain not less than two living trees to each rod [5.03 meters], and in other respects<br>complies with the provisions of this chapter, annually shall receive a bounty at the rate of two<br>dollars for every eighty rods [402.40 meters] of each row. The trees must be not less than one<br>hundred fifty feet [45.72 meters] nor more than two hundred feet [60.96 meters] from a public<br>highway. No bounty may be paid or deduction allowed under the provisions of this section for a<br>longer period than five years upon any one tract or row of trees. Any person entitled to receive a<br>bounty under existing law shall continue to receive such bounty notwithstanding the provisions of<br>this chapter.
4-21-03. Reports required to secure tree bounty. Any person desiring to secure the
benefits of this chapter shall file with the county auditor of the county in which the planting has<br>been made, during the month of June following the planting of the grove, row, or rows of trees,<br>and annually thereafter, a correct plat of the land describing the section or fraction thereof on<br>which the grove, row, or rows of trees have been planted and cultivated, and due proof under<br>oath of the planting and cultivation and of the title to the land, and the facts relative to the growth<br>and cultivation of the grove, row, or rows of trees for which the bounty is demanded.
4-21-04. Assessor to examine trees and groves - Report made by assessor. The
assessor of every township or district shall ascertain, at the time of making the assessment,<br>whether trees have been planted by any landowner in the assessor's township or district for<br>which compensation is claimed under this chapter.
If trees have been planted for which
compensation is claimed, the assessor shall examine the grove or row of trees personally and<br>make a report of the extent and condition thereof according to the prescribed form. The report<br>must be returned to the county auditor with the assessment books.
4-21-05. No bounty for plantings on railroad right of way or timber culture lands.
This chapter does not apply to any railroad company planting trees within two hundred feet<br>[60.96 meters] of its track for the purpose of making a snow fence, nor to any trees planted upon<br>land held and acquired under the timber culture laws of the United States.
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