Art. 13 State Fair 67 c 



§ 292. State fair — It shall be the duty of the said commis- 

 sion to hold a state fair at such times as they 

 Duties of. may deem proper, except that said state fair 



shall not be held on the first Monday in Septem- 

 ber, known as Labor day, and between January first and February 

 fifteenth in each calendar year to publish the time of holding said 

 fair in such year. It shall not be lawful for any corporation, 

 association or individual to hold or conduct any trotting or pacing 



race or races during the week in which the state 

 Racing privileges, fair is held, except upon half-mile tracks, and 



except at the fairs held by agricultural societies 

 which have received moneys from the state, and no corporation, 

 association or individual holding such races during said week shall 

 be entitled to any of the benefits conferred by article twenty of 

 the membership corporations law, or by any general or special law. 

 Such commission may make, alter, suspend or repeal needed rules 



relating to such fair, including the times and 

 Powers of. duration thereof, the terms and conditions of 



entries and admissions, exhibits, sale of privi- 

 leges, payment of premiums, and any other matters which they 

 may deem proper in connection with such fair. They shall 

 furnish to each person who, on the seventeenth day of January, 

 nineteen hundred, was a life member of the state agricultural 

 society, a free admission to the fair ground during the fair of each 

 year during the life of such member. 



§ 293. Superintendent of state fair; assistants and employees. — 

 The state fair commission may appoint a superintendent of the 

 state fair and such other assistants and employees as they may 

 deem necessary. They may prescribe their duties and fix their 

 compensation. Such superintendent, assistants and employees 

 ^hall be subject to removal at the pleasure of such commission. 



§ 294. Receipts and disbursements. — The commission shall re- 

 ceive all moneys payable to the state on account of said fair, and 

 make all disbursements therefrom and also from any appropriation 

 made for that purpose by the legislature as may be needed, from 

 time to time, in carrying on the work of the commission. The 

 provisions of section thirty-seven of the state finance law requiring 



