Effective: April 12, 2021
Latest Legislation: House Bill 665 - 133rd General Assembly
(A) When a board of county commissioners pays or has paid money out of the county treasury for the purchase of real estate as a site for the holding of fairs by a county agricultural society, the society shall not incur any debt, by mortgage or otherwise, without the consent of the board, entered upon its journal.
(B) With respect to real estate debt for which consent is obtained under division (A) of this section, a society may encumber such real estate, in order to pay the cost of necessary repairs and improvements thereon, up to an amount not exceeding fifty per cent of its value. In order to ascertain the value of such real estate the board shall appoint three disinterested freeholders who are residents of the county to appraise such real estate. The appraisers so appointed shall, within ten days after their appointment, upon actual view of such real estate, appraise it and return such appraisement under oath to the board. The appraisement so made shall be considered the value of such real estate for the purpose of mortgage or other encumbrance.
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.