Effective: April 12, 2021 Latest Legislation: House Bill 665 – 133rd General Assembly (A) A county agricultural society is created when both of the following occur: (1) Thirty or more persons who are residents of the same county adopt a constitution and bylaws governing the society. (2) The residents described in division (A) of this […]
Effective: April 12, 2021 Latest Legislation: House Bill 665 – 133rd General Assembly (A) An independent agricultural society is created if both of the following occur: (1) Thirty or more persons of the same county, or of not more than three contiguous counties, adopt a constitution and bylaws governing the society. (2) The persons described […]
Effective: April 12, 2021 Latest Legislation: House Bill 665 – 133rd General Assembly (A)(1) The board of county commissioners of a county, in which a county or independent agricultural society is located that receives state or county aid, annually shall appropriate an amount determined by the board for the society’s junior club. The board shall […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Every society formed under sections 1711.01 and 1711.02 of the Revised Code shall annually offer and award premiums for the improvement of grains, fruits, vegetables, livestock, articles of domestic industry, public school displays, and such other articles, productions, and improvements as it […]
Effective: April 12, 2021 Latest Legislation: House Bill 665 – 133rd General Assembly Every county agricultural society annually shall do all of the following: (A) Make a report of its proceedings during the year; (B) File a financial report, in accordance with section 117.38 of the Revised Code and forward it to the director of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Effective: April 12, 2021 Latest Legislation: House Bill 665 – 133rd General Assembly (A) No person shall operate any concession at any fair or exposition conducted by a county or independent agricultural society or by the Ohio expositions commission without first obtaining from the director of agriculture a license to do so under division (B) […]
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 […]
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 […]
Effective: November 2, 2018 Latest Legislation: House Bill 312 – 132nd General Assembly (A) Not later than three months after the effective date of this amendment, the board of directors of a county agricultural society or an independent agricultural society that holds a credit card account on the effective date of this amendment shall adopt […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
