1978 Agricultural Law [Art. 14. 



missioner of agriculture, as hereinbefore provided, and paid in 

 actual cash premiums for agricultural, mechauical and domestic 

 products at least four thousand five hundred dollars for one year 

 or at least fifteen hundred dollars a year for three consecutive 

 years, exclusive of the premiums paid for trials, or tests of speed, 

 skill or endurance of man or beast. When any such other agricul- 

 tural society has filed such annual reports and paid such premiums 

 for one year or three successive years as herein provided and to the 

 satisfaction of the commissioner of agriculture, then the said com- 

 missioner of agriculture may thereafter allow such society to draw 

 Legal moneys under and by virtue of the provisions of this article. All 



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societies, such couuty agricultural societies, town or other agricultural 

 societies, or fair associations, or agricultural expositions organized 

 under the laws of the state of New York which have received 

 moneys from the state for premiums paid for the promotion of 

 agriculture and domestic arts, for the promotion of education 

 along agricultural lines, or for the promotion of the improvement 

 of the breeding of cattle, sheep, horses and other domestic animals, 

 shall be deemed as agents for the state in disbursing such moneys 

 and shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such moneys paid as 

 provided in this article, from an annual appropriation which shall 

 not be less than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Any 

 agricultural society, agricultural club or agricultural exposition 

 which shall knowingly permit any immoral, lewd, obscene or 



^mbiin^"'' indecent show or exhibition, use, or knowingly permit the use of, 

 any gambling device, device, instrument or contrivance in the 

 oi:)eration of which bets are laid or wagers made, wheel of fortune, 

 or the playing or carrying on of any game of chance, upon the 

 grounds used by it for, or during, an annual meeting, fair or 

 exhibition, shall thereupon forfeit its rights to any moneys it 

 would or might be entitled to receive under the pro-\dsions of this 

 article; and it shall be the duty of the president and secretary or 

 treasurer of every agricultural society, agricultural club, or agri- 

 cultural exposition entitled to receive money under the provisions 



Certificate of this article, to certify, in its annual report to the commissioner 



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gambling, of agriculturc, executed under oath, on or before the fifteenth day 

 of December, in each year, that at the last annual meeting, fair or 

 exhibition held by or under the direction of such society, club or 



