Section 38.16 — Exemption From Zoning Ordinances.
38.16 EXEMPTION FROM ZONING ORDINANCES. When lands lying within the corporate limits of towns or cities are owned by a county or agricultural society and used for agricultural fair purposes, the lands and the buildings now or hereafter erected are exempt from the zoning, building, and other ordinances of the town or city; provided, that […]
Section 38.18 — County Fairgrounds; Improvement Aided.
38.18 COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS; IMPROVEMENT AIDED. Each town, statutory city, or school district in this state, at any time having an estimated market value of all its taxable property of more than $105,000,000, and having a county fair located within its corporate limits, may pay part of the expense of improving the fairground to the treasurer […]
Section 38.19 — Expenditure Of Appropriations.
38.19 EXPENDITURE OF APPROPRIATIONS. The county board owning any such fairground may expend the funds so appropriated and paid over by any such town, statutory city, or school district for the use of the county, in the same manner as the funds of the county set apart for these purposes may be expended; and may, […]
Section 38.20 — Supplemental To Existing Laws.
38.20 SUPPLEMENTAL TO EXISTING LAWS. Sections 38.18 to 38.20 shall be supplemental to any existing laws authorizing any town, statutory city, or school district to appropriate funds to aid in the carrying on of any county fair located within the limits of the town, statutory city, or school district, and any town, statutory city, or […]
Section 38.03 — Lease Of County Lands.
38.03 LEASE OF COUNTY LANDS. The county board of any county may lease to agricultural societies established and existing in its county, for such period and on such terms as it shall deem expedient, any lands of the county, including any portion of lands of the county used as a poor farm, to be used […]
Section 38.04 — Annual Meetings; Reports.
38.04 ANNUAL MEETINGS; REPORTS. Every county agricultural society shall hold an annual meeting for the election of officers and the transaction of other business on or before the third Tuesday in November. Service on the county agricultural society board or as an officer of the board is not a public office. Elected officials of the […]
Section 38.05 — Power Of Eminent Domain.
38.05 POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN. Every county agricultural society may acquire, by power of eminent domain, such private real property as may be necessary or convenient for the transaction of the public business for which it was formed. History: (7888-1) 1921 c 296 s 1; 2006 c 214 s 20
Section 38.12 — Appropriations By Municipalities.
38.12 APPROPRIATIONS BY MUNICIPALITIES. The council of any city and the board of supervisors of any town having fairs of county and district agricultural societies or associations, who are members of the Minnesota State Agricultural Society, held within or in close proximity to their corporate limits, may appropriate money to the agricultural society or association. […]
Section 38.14 — Appropriations For County Fairs.
38.14 APPROPRIATIONS FOR COUNTY FAIRS. Subdivision 1. Conditions, procedures, bond. A county board may annually appropriate money to assist in maintaining a county fair managed by a county agricultural society. The appropriation shall be made either to the treasurer of the society or to some other suitable person. Subd. 2. Except Ramsey County. This section […]
Section 38.01 — County Agricultural Societies; Formation, Powers.
38.01 COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES; FORMATION, POWERS. (a) An agricultural society or association may be incorporated by citizens of any county, or two or more counties jointly, but only one agricultural society shall be organized in any county. An agricultural society may sue and be sued in its corporate name; may adopt bylaws, rules, and regulations, […]