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1. Land diverted from an agricultural to a nonagricultural use. 2. Land no longer being utilized for agricultural purposes. 3. Land that has been zoned to a nonagricultural use at the request of the owner subsequent to the enactment of this law. (b) The board of county commissioners may also reclassify lands classified as agricultural to nonagricultural when there is contiguous urban or metropolitan development and the board of county commissioners finds that the continued use of such lands for agricultural purposes will act as a deterrent to the timely and orderly expansion of the community. (c) Sale of land for a purchase price which is three or more times the agricultural assessment placed on the land shall create a presumption that such land is not used primarily for bona fide agricultural purposes. Upon a showing of special circumstances by the landowner demonstrating that the land is to be continued in bona fide agriculture, this presumption may be rebutted. (5) For the purpose of this section, "agricultural purposes" includes, but is not limited to, horticulture; floriculture; viticulture; forestry; dairy; livestock; poultry; bee; pisciculture, when the land is used principally for the production of tropical fish; aquaculture; sod farming; and all forms of farm products and farm production. (6)(a) In years in which proper application for agricultural assessment has been made and granted pursuant to this section, the assessment of land shall be based solely on its agricultural use. The property appraiser shall consider the following use factors only: 1. The quantity and size of the property; 2. The condition of the property; 3. The present market value of the property as agricultural land; 4. The income produced by the property; 5. The productivity of land in its present use; 6. The economic merchantability of the agricultural product; and 7. Such other agricultural factors as may from time to time become applicable, which are reflective of the standard present practices of agricultural use and production. (b) Notwithstanding any provision relating to annual assessment found in s. 192.042, the property appraiser shall rely on 5 -year moving average data when utilizing the income methodology approach in an assessment of property used for agricultural purposes. 5 - 44 -