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PUBLIC LAW 87-200-SEPT. 6, 1961

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Public Law 87-200 AN ACT

To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to provide for lease and transfer of tobacco acreage allotments.

September 6, 1961

[H. R. 1022]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Agricul- ^^'**'^"^jsfeJ°*" tural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is further amended by ^^^2\l\^t\T' adding the following new section: ^ "^^ ^''*^* "SEC. 316. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act for the crop years 1962 and 1963, the owner and operator of any farm for which a tobacco acreage allotment (other than a burley tobacco acreage allotment) is established may lease any part of such allotment to any other owner or operator of a farm in the same county for use in such county on a farm having a current tobacco allotment of the same kind. Such lease and transfer of allotment shall be recognized and considered valid by the county committee provided the conditions set forth in this section are met. I n the case of Maryland (type 32) bal^^'''^ **"^ *"' tobacco, no farm shall be eligible for lease of allotment from the farm unless at least 75 per centum of the allotment for the farm was actually planted during each of the years 1960 and 1961. " (b) Any lease shall be made on such terms and conditions, except Tems'and conas otherwise provided in this section, as the parties thereto agree. No dltionsf lease shall be entered into for any period in excess of one crop year, but may be renewed for the 1963 crop year, if the parties so agree. "(c) The lease and transfer of any allotment shall not be eflfective Filing w i t h until a copy of such lease is filed with and determined by the county '^''^^^J' committee. committee of the county in which the farms involved are located to be in compliance with the provisions of this section. Such lease and transfer shall not be effective unless a copy of the lease is filed with the county committee prior to a closing date established b;^ the Secretary, which date shall be no later than the normal planting time in the county. If the normal yield established by the county committee no^^l^^tlji d"for for the farm to which the allotment is transferred does not exceed the "°^g%,^ normal yield established by the county committee for the farm from which the allotment is transferred by more than 10 per centum, the lease and transfer shall be approved acre for acre. If the normal yield for the farm to which the allotment is transferred exceeds the normal yield for the farm from which the allotment is transferred by more than 10 per centum, the county committee shall make a downward adjustment in the amount of the acreage allotment transferred by multiplying the normal yield established for the farm from which the allotment is transferred by the acreage being transferred and dividing the result by the normal yield established by the farm to which the allotment is transferred. " (d) The lease and transfer of any part of a tobacco acreage allotment determined for a farm shall not affect the allotment for the farm from which such acreage allotment is transferred or the farm to which it is transferred, except with respect to the crop year specified in the lease. The amount of acreage allotment which is fo°£u*"^i"^V°t" leased from a farm shall be considered for purpose of determining ments. future allotments to have been planted to tobacco on the farm from which such allotment is transferred and the production pursuant to the lease and transfer shall not be taken into account in establishing allotments for subsequent years for the farm to which such allotment is transferred. The lessor shall be considered to have been engaged in the production of tobacco for the purpose of eligibility to vote in the referendum.

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