1960 



Agkicultueai, Law 



[Art. 13. 



Presiding 

 officer. 



shall designate one of the members of such commission, who, in 

 addition to his duties as commissioner, shall act as superintendent 

 of the fair grounds and buildings for and during his term as com- 

 missioner, his acts as such superintendent to be under the direc- 

 tion of the commission. Such member shall devote his entire 

 time to the duties of his office. The lieutenant-governor shall be 

 the presiding officer of the commission. The member of such 

 commission designated by the governor to have charge of the fair 

 grounds and buildings shall receive an annual salary of five thou- 

 sand five hundred dollars, the other appointed members of the 

 commission shall receive an annual salary of three thousand dol- 

 Expenses. lars, aud all the members of such commission shall receive their 

 actual and necessary expenses in the discharge of their official 

 duties, to be paid on the certificate of the commissioner of agri- 

 culture and the audit and warrant of the comptroller. {As 

 amended by chapter 366 of the Laws of IQ'IO.) 



Salaries. 



Time of 



hoiding 



fair. 



Racing 

 privileges. 



Fair rules. 



Free ad- 

 mlsslon. 



§ 292. State fair. It shall be the duty of the said commission 

 to hold a state fair at such times as they may deem proper, except 

 that said state fair shall not be held on the first Monday in Sep- 

 tember, 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 trot- 

 ting or pacing race or races during the week in which the state 

 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 bene- 

 fits 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 duration thereof, the terms and condi- 

 tions of entries and admissions, exhibits, sale of privileges, pay- 

 ments 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 admis- 



