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...s, 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 interests of the counties concerned and of the state. It shall regulate the amount of premiums, and their different grades, so that all may have an opportuni...

...n in the county or on the society's web site for not less than two weeks that contains all of the following: (1) A statement indicating that the annual financial report has been filed in accordance with division (B) of this section; (2) A statement indicating that any person who wishes to obtain a copy of the report may contact the treasurer of the society; (3) The treasurer of the society's contact information...

...th 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 about the wants, prospects, and conditions of agricultural societies throughout the state. (B) Each society shall prepare and deliver an annual report to the direct...

...lishing the notice on the society's web site. (D) Only the following persons may vote in an election held in accordance with this section: (1) Those who hold membership certificates 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...

... supervision of the treasurer, shall collect, account for, record, deposit, and disburse all funds of the society.

...mber. 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 board may determine, and until their successors are elected and qualified. The president and the vice-president shall be directors. The se...

...rsons holding those positions are eligible to hold any public office except for the office of county commissioner.

...erate 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 person at any time to operate any side show, amusement, game, or device, or offer for sale any novelty by auction or solicitation, on the fairground who has not fir...

... 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 treasurer of the society shall deposit any funds generated from ticket sales under this section in an a...

...e 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.

...711.09 of the Revised Code, contests, games, tournaments, and other activities, the outcome of which is predominantly determined by the skill of the contestants, participants, or players, whether or not the contestants, participants, or players pay a price for the opportunity to win a prize, do not constitute a game of chance or gambling within the meaning, purpose, and intent of this section and section 1711.09 of t...

... 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 that vendors under contract may solicit within the immediate area of a grandstand or c...

...ter into agreements to obtain loans and credit for expenses related to the purposes of the county agricultural society, provided that the agreements are in writing and are first approved by the board of directors of the society. The total annual payments for debt obligation incurred by a county agricultural society pursuant to this division shall not exceed an amount equal to twenty-five per cent of its prior three-y...

...nd the process for reporting lost or stolen credit cards; (6) The society's credit card account's maximum credit limit or limits; (7) The actions or omissions by an officer or employee that qualify as misuse of a credit card account. (B) The name of the county agricultural society or independent agricultural society shall appear on each presentation instrument related to the account including cards and checks. (C...

...tural 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.

...ess 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 the county, the board of county commissioners may erect or repair buildings or otherwise improve the site and pay the rental of it, 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 county agricultural society is co...

...ting the purpose for which it is available, provided that an appropriation of revenue from a tax levied by the board under division (T) of section 5739.09 of the Revised Code may be expended only for the purposes provided in the resolution levying that tax. On application of the treasurer of the society, the auditor shall issue an order for the amount of the appropriation to the treasurer of the society, if the socie...

...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 other form of indebtedness of the society, if the director of agriculture has certified to the board that the inde...

...ociety 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, by resolution w...

... section 9.95 of the Revised Code, payable semiannually, and shall be issued for a period of not less than ten nor more than twenty years. From the proceeds arising from the sale of such bonds, the board shall pay off the indebtedness for which such bonds were sold.

... 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.

...nt 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.

...icultural society owns or holds 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 ...

... and improvements shall vest in fee simple in the county by which the payments were made.

...hich there is a county agricultural society shall insure the buildings on the grounds of such society for the benefit of such society.