Effective: April 12, 2021
Latest Legislation: House Bill 665 - 133rd General Assembly
(A)(1) When a county or a county agricultural 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 independent agricultural societies, the board, for the purpose of encouraging such societies, may appropriate, in addition to the sum appropriated for the county agricultural society, a sum not greater than the amount appropriated for the county society.
(B) In a county in which there is no county agricultural society, or in which there is no fair held by such a society, but in which there exists an independent agricultural society , the board shall, on the request of the independent agricultural society, annually appropriate from the general fund not less than fifteen hundred dollars for the purpose of encouraging such independent agricultural fairs.
(C) No board shall appropriate money as provided by this section unless the director of agriculture has certified to the board that the county or independent agricultural society is complying with all laws, rules and regulations governing the operation of county or independent agricultural societies.
(D) The county treasurer shall pay any money appropriated in accordance with this section to the treasurer of the society for whose use it was made, upon an order issued from the county auditor.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships
Chapter 1711 | Agricultural Corporations; Amusement Rides
Section 1711.01 | County Agricultural Societies.
Section 1711.02 | Independent Agricultural Societies.
Section 1711.03 | Reimbursement to Agricultural Societies for Junior Club Work.
Section 1711.05 | Annual Financial Report and Report of Proceedings.
Section 1711.06 | Director's Annual Meeting With County Societies.
Section 1711.07 | Board of Directors of County or Independent Agricultural Society.
Section 1711.071 | Agricultural Society Treasurer's Duties.
Section 1711.08 | Election of Officers.
Section 1711.081 | Eligibility for Public Office.
Section 1711.09 | Forbidden Activities.
Section 1711.091 | Sale of Seasonal Tickets, Fundraisers.
Section 1711.10 | Aid of State Withheld.
Section 1711.11 | License Required to Operate Certain Concessions - Inspectors.
Section 1711.12 | Certain Activities Forbidden.
Section 1711.13 | Nature and Powers of County Society.
Section 1711.131 | Policies for Use of Credit Card Accounts.
Section 1711.14 | Appropriation of Land for Agricultural Fair Purposes - Procedure.
Section 1711.15 | County Aid to County Agricultural Society.
Section 1711.16 | Expenditure of County Aid by County Society.
Section 1711.17 | County Joint Ownership.
Section 1711.18 | Issuance of County Bonds to Pay Debts of County Society.
Section 1711.20 | Levy for Payment of Bonds.
Section 1711.21 | Use of Money Raised by County Taxation.
Section 1711.22 | County Aid to County and Independent Agricultural Societies.
Section 1711.23 | Title to Fairgrounds Vests in County on Dissolution of Society.
Section 1711.24 | Insurance on County Society's Buildings.
Section 1711.25 | Sale, Lease, Purchase, and Exchange of Sites by County Society.
Section 1711.26 | Authority to Sell or Exchange Site.
Section 1711.27 | Contracts for Purchase or Lease of New Site by County Society.
Section 1711.28 | Payment for New Site With County Funds or Bonds.
Section 1711.29 | Levy for Payment of Bonds.
Section 1711.30 | Election on Question of Issuing Bonds.
Section 1711.32 | Execution of Conveyance of Fairgrounds.
Section 1711.33 | Encumbering of Fairgrounds Partly Owned by County.
Section 1711.34 | Purchase of Additional Fairgrounds.