Ohio Revised Code Search

...(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...

...f 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 about the wants, prospects, and conditions of agricultural societies throughout the state. (B) Each society shall prepare and deliver an annual report to the director at or before each meeting required by division...

...ates at the close of the annual county fair, or at least fifteen calendar days before the date of election, as may be fixed by the board; (2) Those who hold membership certificates on the date and hour of the election if the election is held on the fairground during the fair. When the election is to be held during the fair, notice of the election also shall be prominently mentioned in the premium list. (E) The t...

...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.

...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 wheels, anywhere on the fairground. (B) A county or independent agricultural society or the Ohio expositions commission shall not permit a pers...

...ot 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 treasurer of the society shall deposit any funds generated from ticket sales under this section in an appropriate fund used by or for the benefit of the society.

...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.

...on 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 privilege or conce...

...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...

...e 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 purchase additional land, but if the board of county commissioners has caused money to be paid out of the county treasury to aid in the purchase of the grounds, no mortgage shall be g...

...(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...

...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.

...ty 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 which there is a county agricultural society that has purchased, or leased for a term of not less than twenty years, real estate as a site on which to hold fairs, or if the title to the site is vested in fee in ...

...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...

...ty 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 other form of indebtedness of the society, if the director of agriculture has certified to the board that the independent agricultural society is complying with all laws and rules governing the operati...

...ore, 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 question whether or not county bonds shall be issued and sold to liquidate such indebtedness, shall,...

...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...

...The board of county commissioners, upon the issuance of bonds under sections 1711.18 and 1711.19 of the Revised Code, shall levy a tax upon all the taxable property on the tax duplicate of the county for the purpose of paying such bonds as they mature and the interest thereon, at the rate and for such length of time as may be necessary for the purpose.

...he purpose of leasing lands for county fairs, erecting buildings for county fair purposes, or making improvements on a county fairground, or for any purpose connected with the use of a county fairground or with the management thereof by a county agricultural society, such money shall be used for such purpose only, even though the law under which the money was so raised has expired by limitation.

...ds under a lease real estate used as a fairground, and such society has the control and management of such lands and buildings, the board of county commissioners shall, on the request of such society, annually appropriate from the general fund not less than fifteen hundred dollars for the purpose of encouraging agricultural fairs. (2) In any county in which there is located one or more independent agricultural soci...