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Ohio Rev Code § 1711.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1711 | Agricultural Corporations; Amusement Rides|Section 1711.06 | Director's Annual Meeting With County Societies.

Effective: April 12, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 665 - 133rd General Assembly|(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 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 (A) of this section. (C) The director shall do both of the following: (1) Notify the president and the secretary of each society of the date of the annual meeting at least thirty days prior to the meeting; (2) Adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that provide for both of the following: (a) A uniform method for the election of the directors and officers of all agricultural societies that receive any support out of the state or county treasuries, except the date for holding the election; (b) Any other rules that the director determines are necessary to carry out this chapter. (D) Except for section 1711.11 of the Revised Code, references made in this chapter to rules adopted by the director mean rules adopted under division (C) of this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 1711.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1711 | Agricultural Corporations; Amusement Rides|Section 1711.07 | Board of Directors of County or Independent Agricultural Society.

Effective: April 12, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 665 - 133rd General Assembly|(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, resignation, refusal to qualify, removal from county, or other cause until the society's next annual election. At that election, a new director shall be elected for the unexpired term.  (C)(1) There shall be an annual election of directors by ballot at a time and a place fixed by the board. The election shall be held by the fifteenth day of November each year.  (2) The secretary of the society shall give notice of the election, for three weeks prior to the election, by doing one of the following: (a) Publishing the notice in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code; (b) Mailing the notice to each member of the society; (c) Publishing 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 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 terms of office of the retiring directors shall expire, and those of the directors-elect shall begin, not later than the thirtieth day of November each year.  (F) The secretary of the society shall send, within ten days after the election, both of the following to the director: (1) The name and address of each member of its board; (2) A copy of the document containing the member's signature verifying that the member voted in the election. (G) A candidate for director shall not count or record votes in any election conducted in accordance with this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 1711.071 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1711 | Agricultural Corporations; Amusement Rides|Section 1711.071 | Agricultural Society Treasurer's Duties.

Effective: April 12, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 665 - 133rd General Assembly|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.
Ohio Rev Code § 1711.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1711 | Agricultural Corporations; Amusement Rides|Section 1711.08 | Election of Officers.

Effective: April 12, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 665 - 133rd General Assembly|(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 board may determine, and until their successors are elected and qualified. The president and the vice-president shall be directors. The secretary and the treasurer may be directors. Before election of officers the newly elected directors shall qualify by taking oath or affirmation before a competent authority, and in electing officers the board shall conform to the rules adopted by the director of agriculture.
Ohio Rev Code § 1711.081 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1711 | Agricultural Corporations; Amusement Rides|Section 1711.081 | Eligibility for Public Office.

Effective: September 3, 1997|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 117 - 122nd General Assembly|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.
Ohio Rev Code § 1711.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1711 | Agricultural Corporations; Amusement Rides|Section 1711.09 | Forbidden Activities.

Effective: April 12, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 665 - 133rd General Assembly|(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 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 first obtained from the director of agriculture a license under section 1711.11 of the Revised Code.  (C) This section does not prohibit the sale of lottery tickets by the state lottery commission pursuant to Chapter 3770. of the Revised Code at the state fairground during the state fair. In addition, a county or independent agricultural society may permit, at any time except during a fair or for one week before or three days after a fair, a charitable organization to conduct in accordance with Chapter 2915. of the Revised Code games of chance or bingo on the fairground of any county. A charitable organization may lease all or part of the fairground from the agricultural society for that purpose. (D) Any sales of intoxicating liquor transacted on the fairground is subject to Chapters 4301., 4303., and 4399. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 1711.091 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1711 | Agricultural Corporations; Amusement Rides|Section 1711.091 | Sale of Seasonal Tickets, Fundraisers.

Effective: April 12, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 665 - 133rd General Assembly|(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 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.
Ohio Rev Code § 1711.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1711 | Agricultural Corporations; Amusement Rides|Section 1711.10 | Aid of State Withheld.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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.
Ohio Rev Code § 1711.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1711 | Agricultural Corporations; Amusement Rides|Section 1711.12 | Certain Activities Forbidden.

Effective: July 1, 1983|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 291 - 115th General Assembly|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 that vendors under contract may solicit within the immediate area of a grandstand or coliseum for the purpose of vending food, soft drinks, and souvenirs directly related to the program attraction.
Ohio Rev Code § 1711.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1711 | Agricultural Corporations; Amusement Rides|Section 1711.13 | Nature and Powers of County Society.

Effective: April 12, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 665 - 133rd General Assembly|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 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 given without the consent of the board. Deeds, conveyances, and agreements in writing, made to and by such societies, for the purchase of real estate as sites for their fairs, shall vest a title in fee simple to the real estate described in those documents, without words of inheritance. (B) Subject to section 1711.33 of the Revised Code, enter 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-year average of annual revenues.
Ohio Rev Code § 1711.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1711 | Agricultural Corporations; Amusement Rides|Section 1711.14 | Appropriation of Land for Agricultural Fair Purposes - Procedure.

Effective: January 1, 1966|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly|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.
Ohio Rev Code § 1711.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1711 | Agricultural Corporations; Amusement Rides|Section 1711.15 | County Aid to County Agricultural Society.

Effective: March 27, 2020|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 197 - 133rd General Assembly|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 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 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 complying with all laws and rules governing the operation of county agricultural societies. The board may appropriate from the county's general fund or permanent improvement fund, and may appropriate revenue from a tax levied under division (T) of section 5739.09 of the Revised Code, any amount that it considers necessary for any of those purposes, provided that an appropriation of revenue from that tax may be expended only for the purposes provided in the resolution levying that tax.
Ohio Rev Code § 1711.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1711 | Agricultural Corporations; Amusement Rides|Section 1711.16 | Expenditure of County Aid by County Society.

Effective: March 27, 2020|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 197 - 133rd General Assembly|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 provided by the board. When the appropriation is made by the board, the county auditor shall place the proceeds in a special fund, designated the "county agricultural society fund," indicating 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 society has secured the certificate required under section 1711.05 of the Revised Code, on the treasurer's filing with the auditor a bond in double the amount collected, with good and sufficient sureties approved by the auditor, conditioned for the satisfactory paying over and accounting of the funds for the purposes for which they were provided. The funds shall remain in the special fund in which they are placed by the auditor until they are applied for by the treasurer of the society and the bond is given, or until they are expended by the board for the purposes for which the fund was created. If the society ceases to exist or releases the fund as not required for the purposes for which the fund was created, the board may by resolution transfer the fund to the general fund of the county.
Ohio Rev Code § 1711.17 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1711 | Agricultural Corporations; Amusement Rides|Section 1711.17 | County Joint Ownership.

Effective: September 26, 2003|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 95 - 125th General Assembly|(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 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 operation of county agricultural societies. The boards may appropriate from their respective general funds such an amount as they consider necessary for any of those purposes.(B) An independent agricultural society may purchase or lease, for a term of not less than twenty years, real estate on which to hold fairs under its management and control and may erect suitable buildings on the real estate and otherwise improve it.
Ohio Rev Code § 1711.18 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1711 | Agricultural Corporations; Amusement Rides|Section 1711.18 | Issuance of County Bonds to Pay Debts of County Society.

Effective: September 29, 2011|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly|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 question whether or not county bonds shall be issued and sold to liquidate such indebtedness, shall, by resolution within ten days thereafter, fix a date, which shall be within thirty days, upon which the question of issuing and selling such bonds, in the necessary amount and denomination, shall be submitted to the electors of the county. The board also shall cause a copy of such resolution to be certified to the county board of elections and such board of elections, within ten days after such certification, shall proceed to make the necessary arrangements for the submission of such question to such electors at the time fixed by such resolution. Such election shall be held at the regular places of voting in the county and shall be conducted, canvassed, and certified, except as otherwise provided by law, as are elections of county officers. The county board of elections must give fifteen days' notice of such submission by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the county once a week for two consecutive weeks or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, stating the amount of bonds to be issued, the purpose for which they are to be issued, and the time and places of holding such election. Those who vote in favor of the proposition shall have written or printed on their ballots "for the issue of bonds" and those who vote against it shall have written or printed on their ballots "against the issue of bonds." If a majority of those voting upon the question of issuing the bonds vote in favor thereof, then and only then shall they be issued and the tax provided for in section 1711.20 of the Revised Code be levied.
Ohio Rev Code § 1711.19 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1711 | Agricultural Corporations; Amusement Rides|Section 1711.19 | Bonds.

Effective: May 13, 1981|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 95 - 114th General Assembly|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 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.
Ohio Rev Code § 1711.20 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1711 | Agricultural Corporations; Amusement Rides|Section 1711.20 | Levy for Payment of Bonds.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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.
Ohio Rev Code § 1711.21 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1711 | Agricultural Corporations; Amusement Rides|Section 1711.21 | Use of Money Raised by County Taxation.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When money has been raised by taxation by a county for the 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.