Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 12 - Taxation › 107d - Policies and Standards for Evaluating Land Proposed for Classification as Forest Land › Section 12-107d-1 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
As used in sections 12-107d-1 to
				12-107d-5,
				inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies:
(1) "Artificial regeneration" means trees
			 grown by planting young trees, applying seed, using cuttings or by other
			 similar means;
(2) "Contiguous"
			 means sharing a common boundary and under one ownership. Land under one
			 ownership and traversed by a stream, river, pond, swamp, marsh, bog, lake or
			 other body of water, public highway, power line, pipeline, railroad right of
			 way or other easement may be considered as contiguous;
(3) "Day" means calendar day;
(4) "Diameter at breast height" (dbh) means
			 the measurement in inches of the diameter of a tree at a point on the stem of a
			 tree four and one half feet above ground level;
(5) "Forester" means any individual certified
			 as a forester pursuant to section
			 23-65h
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes;
(6) "Forest Land" means "forest land" as
			 defined in section
			 12-107b of
			 the Connecticut General Statutes;
(7) "Forest practice" means any activity
			 which may alter the physical or vegetative characteristics of any forest land,
			 including, but not limited to, any activity involving or associated with the
			 cutting of trees or harvesting of forest products;
(8) "Forest type" means the description of a
			 forest tract, based on the most common species present, including, but not
			 limited to, white pine, red pine, hemlock, spruce/fir, oak/hickory, elm/ash/red
			 maple, maple/beech/birch, and aspen/birch;
(9) "Municipality" means "municipality" as
			 defined in section
			 12-107b of
			 the Connecticut General Statutes;
(10) "Municipal land records" means the land
			 records of a town or towns in which the land proposed for or granted forest
			 land classification is located;
(11) "Natural regeneration" means live trees
			 grown from natural seeding or vegetative reproduction;
(12) "Overstory" means those live trees
			 forming the uppermost or highest level of vegetative cover;
(13) "Owner" means the person listed in the
			 municipal land records as the owner of the land classified as forest land or
			 the land proposed for classification as forest land;
(14) "Person" means any individual, firm,
			 partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, company,
			 organization or legal entity of any kind, including any political subdivision
			 of the state or any state agency;
(15) "Pole" means a live tree having a dbh
			 greater than 5.5 inches and less than or equal to 11.5 inches;
(16) "Qualified forester" means any forester
			 who has satisfactorily completed training by and obtained a certificate from
			 the State Forester or his or her designee related to policies and standards for
			 evaluating land proposed for classification as forest land and, in the opinion
			 of the State Forester, acts in conformance with such policies and
			 standards;
(17) "Sapling" means a
			 live tree of at least four and one half feet in height or having a dbh greater
			 than 0.5 inches and less than or equal to 5.5 inches;
(18) "Sawtimber" means a live tree having a
			 dbh greater than 11.5 inches;
(19)
			 "Seedling" means a live tree that is taller than 6 inches and less than four
			 and one half feet in height;
(20)
			 "Size class" means a grouping of tree diameter measurements used to describe a
			 number of trees as primarily seedlings, saplings, poles, or
			 sawtimber;
(21) "State Forester"
			 means the individual referred to in section
			 23-19
			 of the General Statutes or his or her designee;
(22) "Tract" means a continuous or unbroken
			 expanse of land under single ownership and bearing adequate tree cover
			 generally distributed throughout its area. The following features shall be
			 regarded as the bounds of a tract: acreage under a different ownership or
			 acreage that does not meet the standards for forest land classification in
			 section 12-107 -d-3 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies. Lines of
			 demarcation drawn on maps, including, but not limited to, municipal boundaries,
			 assessor's lot lines, and lines on subdivision maps are not to be regarded as a
			 boundary of a forest tract;
(23)
			 "Tree" means a woody perennial plant usually having one self-supporting stem or
			 trunk which has a definitely formed crown and is normally expected to attain a
			 mature height of over twenty feet;
(24) "Understory" means all forest vegetation
			 growing under an overstory.