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383C.16 COUNTY FAIR; MAINTAINING.
Subdivision 1. Appropriation. The St. Louis County Board may annually appropriate
not to exceed $2,000 to assist in the maintaining of a county fair, which fair shall be under the
management and control of a county agricultural society. Such appropriation shall be made either
to the treasurer of such society or to some other suitable person, but before such money is paid to
such treasurer or other person, the payee shall file with the county auditor a satisfactory bond in
double the sum of said appropriation, conditioned upon a faithful disbursing and accounting for
all of said funds so appropriated. Said funds so appropriated shall be used solely for the purpose
of obtaining, preparing, and arranging exhibits and paying premiums to exhibitors. The treasurer
or other person to whom said appropriation is paid shall within four months after the holding of
any such aided annual fair, file with the county auditor a verified and detailed report showing
the name and address of every person to whom any of said money was paid, together with the
date of payment and a full description of the purposes for which the money was so paid and shall
attach thereto receipts and subvouchers for each payment so made and shall return to the county
treasurer all of the unexpended portion thereof. After said report and receipts and subvouchers
have been audited by the county board and found to be correct, they may by resolution release
said treasurer or other person and sureties from all further liabilities under such bond.
Subd. 2. Site appropriation. The county board may also annually appropriate such further
sum as it may desire not exceeding $7,500, for the purpose of procuring a suitable site and the
erection of a suitable county building thereon, for the building or repairing of a race track and for
grading and improving the grounds, to be used in connection with such county fair, but said site
and said building and improvements shall be and remain the property of such county and such
annual appropriation shall be used only for the purpose of so acquiring such site and building and
grading and for the necessary care, repair, maintenance and upkeep thereof.
History: 1917 c 311 s 1,2; 1986 c 444; 1988 c 491 s 10
Subdivision 1. Appropriation. The St. Louis County Board may annually appropriate
not to exceed $2,000 to assist in the maintaining of a county fair, which fair shall be under the
management and control of a county agricultural society. Such appropriation shall be made either
to the treasurer of such society or to some other suitable person, but before such money is paid to
such treasurer or other person, the payee shall file with the county auditor a satisfactory bond in
double the sum of said appropriation, conditioned upon a faithful disbursing and accounting for
all of said funds so appropriated. Said funds so appropriated shall be used solely for the purpose
of obtaining, preparing, and arranging exhibits and paying premiums to exhibitors. The treasurer
or other person to whom said appropriation is paid shall within four months after the holding of
any such aided annual fair, file with the county auditor a verified and detailed report showing
the name and address of every person to whom any of said money was paid, together with the
date of payment and a full description of the purposes for which the money was so paid and shall
attach thereto receipts and subvouchers for each payment so made and shall return to the county
treasurer all of the unexpended portion thereof. After said report and receipts and subvouchers
have been audited by the county board and found to be correct, they may by resolution release
said treasurer or other person and sureties from all further liabilities under such bond.
Subd. 2. Site appropriation. The county board may also annually appropriate such further
sum as it may desire not exceeding $7,500, for the purpose of procuring a suitable site and the
erection of a suitable county building thereon, for the building or repairing of a race track and for
grading and improving the grounds, to be used in connection with such county fair, but said site
and said building and improvements shall be and remain the property of such county and such
annual appropriation shall be used only for the purpose of so acquiring such site and building and
grading and for the necessary care, repair, maintenance and upkeep thereof.
History: 1917 c 311 s 1,2; 1986 c 444; 1988 c 491 s 10
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