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...This section does not apply to a special improvement district created by an existing qualified nonprofit corporation. The process for dissolving a special improvement district or repealing an improvements or services plan may be initiated by a petition signed by members of the district who own at least twenty per cent of the appraised value of the real property located in the district, excluding church property or...

...The board of directors of a special improvement district in which all or part of a downtown redevelopment district is located may accept contributions from the municipal corporation that created the downtown redevelopment district pursuant to division (E)(2) of section 5709.45 of the Revised Code. The board shall use all such contributions to promote the downtown redevelopment district to potential business patrons, ...

...(A) A county agricultural society is created when both of the following occur: (1) Thirty or more persons who are residents of the same county adopt a constitution and bylaws governing the society. (2) The residents described in division (A) of this section elect a board of directors in accordance with section 1711.08 of the Revised Code. (B) A county agricultural society created under this section shall operat...

...(A) An independent agricultural society is created if both of the following occur: (1) Thirty or more persons of the same county, or of not more than three contiguous counties, adopt a constitution and bylaws governing the society. (2) The persons described in division (A)(1) of this section elect a board of directors in accordance with section 1711.08 of the Revised Code. (B) An independent agricultural societ...

...(A)(1) The board of county commissioners of a county, in which a county or independent agricultural society is located that receives state or county aid, annually shall appropriate an amount determined by the board for the society's junior club. The board shall ensure that the amount appropriated is at least one hundred dollars. The board shall certify the amount appropriated to the county auditor. (2) The county ...

...Every society formed under sections 1711.01 and 1711.02 of the Revised Code shall annually offer and award premiums for the improvement of grains, fruits, vegetables, livestock, articles of domestic industry, public school displays, and such other articles, productions, and improvements as it deems proper, and may perform any acts best calculated to promote the agricultural interests and household manufacturing inter...

...Every county agricultural society annually shall do all of the following: (A) Make a report of its proceedings during the year; (B) File a financial report, in accordance with section 117.38 of the Revised Code and forward it to the director of agriculture at or before the annual meeting of the directors of the society with the director of agriculture, as provided for in section 1711.06 of the Revised Code. No pa...

...(A) Prior to the first day of December of each year, the director of agriculture shall set a date in January of the following year, on which the director shall meet with the presidents or other authorized delegates of agricultural societies which conduct fairs in compliance with this chapter and regulations of the department of agriculture. At such meeting the director shall consult with such presidents and delegates...

...(A) The board of directors of a county or independent agricultural society shall consist of at least eight members. An employee of the OSU extension shall serve with the board as a nonvoting member. The director of agriculture shall determine the terms of office for members of the board in accordance with rules adopted by the director of agriculture. (B) The board may fill any vacancy on the board caused by death,...

...The treasurer of a county or independent agricultural society, or a person under the supervision of the treasurer, shall collect, account for, record, deposit, and disburse all funds of the society.

...(A) The board of directors of a county or independent agricultural society shall annually meet not later than the thirtieth day of November. At such meeting, the board shall elect a president, a vice-president, a treasurer, a secretary, and such other officers as it may deem proper. (B) The president, the vice-president, and the treasurer shall serve one year, and the secretary not more than three years as the boa...

...The positions of members of the board of directors, officers, and employees of a county or independent agricultural society are not public offices, and persons holding those positions are eligible to hold any public office except for the office of county commissioner.

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, county agricultural societies, independent agricultural societies, and the Ohio expositions commission shall not permit during any fair, or for one week before or three days after any fair, any dealing in spirituous liquors, or at any time allow or tolerate immoral shows, lottery devices, games of chance, or gambling of any kind, including pool selling and paddle whee...

...(A) Any member of a county or independent agricultural society may sell seasonal tickets or passes for the society's annual exhibition. The sale of such tickets or passes need not be conducted on the premises of the fairgrounds. (B) Any person may sell tickets for fundraisers held by a county or independent agricultural society, or for the benefit of the society, during the society's annual exhibition. (C) The t...

...If it is shown from the report of any county agricultural society, from witnesses, or otherwise that the annual exhibition held by such society was not conducted along moral or agricultural lines or was not of sufficient educational value to justify the expenditure of funds as provided by section 1711.01 of the Revised Code, the certificate for such financial aid may be withheld by the director of agriculture.

...(A) No person shall operate any concession at any fair or exposition conducted by a county or independent agricultural society or by the Ohio expositions commission without first obtaining from the director of agriculture a license to do so under division (B) of this section, nor shall any officer, agent, or employee of a county or independent agricultural society or of the Ohio expositions commission grant a privile...

...During an Ohio state fair or county or independent agricultural society fair, no person shall cry, hawk, sell, or expose for sale any merchandise except the official fair or race program upon any public road at any point within one thousand feet of any entrance or exit of the fairground or, within the fairground, engage in any solicitation more than four feet from a concession or booth assigned to such person, except...

...County agricultural societies are hereby declared bodies corporate and politic, and as such they are capable of suing and being sued and of holding in fee simple any real estate purchased by them as sites for their fairs. In addition, they may do either or both of the following: (A) Mortgage their grounds for the purpose of renewing or extending pre-existing debts, and for the purpose of furnishing money to purchas...

...(A) Not later than three months after the effective date of this amendment, the board of directors of a county agricultural society or an independent agricultural society that holds a credit card account on the effective date of this amendment shall adopt a written policy for the use of credit card accounts. Otherwise, a board shall adopt a written policy before first holding a credit card account. The policy shal...

...When it is necessary in the opinion of any county agricultural society to procure or enlarge any site for the purpose of holding an agricultural fair, proceedings to appropriate may be had as provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...In any county in which there is a duly organized county agricultural society, the board of county commissioners or the county agricultural society itself may purchase or lease, for a term of not less than twenty years, real estate on which to hold fairs under the management and control of the county agricultural society, and may erect suitable buildings on the real estate and otherwise improve it. In counties in wh...

...When the control and management of a fairground is in a county agricultural society, and the board of county commissioners has appropriated an amount for the aid of the society as provided in section 1711.15 of the Revised Code, the society, with the consent of the board, may contract for the erection or repair of buildings or otherwise improve the fairground, to the extent that the payment for the improvement is pro...

...(A) In any counties in which there is a duly organized independent agricultural society, the respective boards of county commissioners may purchase or lease jointly, for a term of not less than twenty years, real estate on which to hold fairs under the management and control of the society, and may erect suitable buildings and otherwise improve the property, and pay the rental thereof, or contribute to or pay any oth...

...In a county in which there is a county agricultural society indebted fifteen thousand dollars or more, and such society has purchased a fairground or title to such fairground is vested in fee in the county, the board of county commissioners, upon the presentation of a petition signed by not less than five hundred resident electors of the county praying for the submission to the electors of the county of the que...

...If a majority of the voters of a county voting upon the question of issuing bonds under section 1711.18 of the Revised Code vote in favor thereof, the board of county commissioners, for the purpose of liquidating the county agricultural society's indebtedness, shall issue and sell bonds of the county in the amount necessary. Such bonds shall bear interest at not more than the rate provided in section 9.95 of the Revi...