Illinois Administrative Code › Title 8 - AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS › Part 260 - FAIRS OPERATING UNDER THE AGRICULTURAL FAIR ACT › Subpart A - FAIRS OPERATING UNDER THE AGRICULTURAL PREMIUM FUND › Section 260.30 - Premiums and Receipts for Premiums Paid

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) All premiums shall be paid by the fair
				association or agricultural society to the winners and persons who placed in
				each class prior to the filing of the premium grand summary report. A receipt
				showing the amount of each premium paid shall be signed by the exhibitor who
				won or placed in the class and was paid the premium. If the exhibitor is unable
				to personally pick up the premium money, the person picking up or mailing the
				check shall sign his or her name and provide his or her address.
b) All receipts for premiums paid shall
				accompany the premium grand summary report in support of claims. If, in a few
				cases, the secretary or the person designated to file the premium grand summary
				report is unable to obtain a signed receipt, the cancelled check or a
				photostatic copy of the cancelled check shall be attached to the unsigned
				receipt. The cancelled check (or copy of the cancelled check) shall remain as a
				part of the premium grand summary report and shall not be returned to the fair
				association or agricultural society. The original of the receipt shall
				accompany the premium grand summary report, a copy of the receipt shall be
				given to the exhibitor, and a copy of the receipt shall be retained for three
				years by the fair association or agricultural society.
c) Each exhibitor's receipt shall be totaled
				separately. The receipts shall be kept separated according to each
				department.
d) Premium State aid
				will be paid on a maximum of two premiums awarded to the same exhibitor under
				the same premium number. Where only one exhibit is entered in a class, the
				exhibit shall be declared first place and be paid the first place premium.
				Premium State aid shall be paid on a maximum of 10 placings under any one
				premium number. The premium amounts must be on a graduated scale.
e) The costs of ribbons, rosettes and
				trophies, including engraving, are eligible for premium State aid when they are
				awarded in classes that are eligible for premium State aid. An itemized invoice
				showing only the items as before stated that are eligible for premium State aid
				shall accompany the premium grand summary report. Invoices for trophies,
				ribbons, or rosettes must show the business from which they were purchased.
				Where the ribbon, rosette, trophy and/or the engraving on the trophy is paid by
				an organization or person sponsoring the event, these costs are not eligible
				for premium State aid.
f) In order
				to qualify for premiums, entries must show in their proper classes (i.e.,
				according to age, sex, breed, or other qualifications as established for the
				exhibit or event by the fair association or agricultural society; five-gaited
				horses cannot show as three-gaited, and polled herefords cannot show in the
				horned hereford class). Combining of classes, such as the polled herefords with
				the horned herefords, will disqualify such combined classes for premium State
				aid, except where the classes were advertised as combined classes in the
				premium book.