Art. 14.] Miscellaneous Provisions 1977 



after to be paid by any society, association, club or exposition, 

 any sums of money exceeding four thousand dollars. Any such 

 county agricultural society, town or other agricultural society, 

 or agricultural club or fair association, or agricultural exposition, 

 organized under the laws of the state of ]^ew York, which shall 

 fail or neglect to hold an annual fair, and file its annual report Failure 



. . . . . .to hold 



as provided by this article, with the commissioner of agriculture, annual 

 as herein provided, for two consecutive years, shall forfeit all 

 of its chartered rights, including any privileges or moneys it 

 might thereafter otherwise be entitle to under the provisions of 

 this article. Except that where the lands or property of any Excep- 

 such agricultural society or association have been or may here- 

 after be taken or appropriated by the state of I^ew York for use 

 in connection with the construction of the barge canal, no such 

 society or association whose lands or property has been or may 

 be so taken or appropriated shall forfeit any of its rights or priv- 

 ileges, or any of the moneys it might otherwise be entitled to 

 under the provisions of this article, unless such society or asso- 

 ciation shall fail or neglect to hold an annual fair and file its 

 annual report as provided by this article for five consecutive 

 years. All agricultural clubs, societies, agricultural fair asso- 

 ciations, agricultural expositions, or the American institute of 

 the city of New York, entitled to receive any portion of the moneys 

 appropriated by the state, must hereafter on or before the fifteenth 

 day of December in each year, file a statement, duly verified by statement. 

 the president and treasurer or secretary, showing the amount of 

 premiums paid at the last annual fair, exclusive of premiums paid 

 for trials or tests of speed, skill or endurance of man or beast, 

 which statement together with vouchers for moneys paid as pre- 

 miums shall be filed in the office of the commissioner of agricul- 

 ture, otherwise such society, fair association, exposition, club, or 

 the American institute of the city of New York, shall forfeit its 

 rights to participate in the distribution of such moneys for pre- 

 miums paid for such year. No other agricultural society, now New 



. "^ societies. 



or hereafter organized which is not entitled to receive moneys 

 under this section, except a county agricultural society, shall be 

 entitled to receive any moneys under the provisions of this article, 

 until it shall have first filed annual reports in the office of the com- 



