Chapter 2, AGRICULTURE

2-125. Definitions. (a) As used in this act, "fair association" or "association" means a county fair incorporated as provided in this act; "agricultural societies" means other associations of citizens organized for the promotion of agriculture and kindred subjects; "fair" means a…

2-126. Purposes. A county fair association may be organized and incorporated in each county of the state for the purpose of holding an annual fair and giving such public exhibitions and entertainments as its board of directors may determine to be for the improvement of the county…

2-127. Organization of association; recognition, number. (a) To become a county fair association, 25 or more qualified electors representing the majority of the townships of the county shall have been incorporated as a nonprofit corporation with a paid-up capital of not less than…

2-128. Election or appointment of directors and officers of fair associations and boards; terms; vacancies. (a) Except as otherwise provided, immediately upon incorporation and annually thereafter on or before the second Tuesday of December, the stockholders of record or members …

2-129. County aid; amount; tax levies, use of proceeds. Each fair association complying with the provisions of K.S.A. 2-127 and 2-128, and amendments thereto, upon filing with the clerk of the county an estimate and a report as provided in K.S.A. 2-130 and 2-131, and amendments t…

2-129a. Expenditures prior to June 30, 1965, confirmed. If prior to the effective date of this act, a fair association has used moneys received from the county pursuant to the provisions of K.S.A. 2-129, and has used such funds in part for the actual costs of printing of premium …

2-129b. Rental or lease of grounds or buildings by commissioners; limitations; use of lease moneys. The board of county commissioners of any county which owns a fairgrounds may rent or lease all or any part of the fairgrounds or any building thereon to any person, firm or corpora…

2-129c. Tax levies for fair purposes in certain counties; use of proceeds. The board of county commissioners of any county, to which the provisions of K.S.A. 2-129 apply, having a population of more than eight thousand eight hundred (8,800) and less than nine thousand six hundred…

2-129d. Same; election, when. Said levies will be made unless a petition requesting an election upon the proposition of making said levies, signed by electors equal in number to not less than ten percent (10%) of the electors of the county who voted for the secretary of state at …

2-129e. Tax levies for fair purposes in certain counties; use of proceeds. The board of county commissioners of any county, to which the provisions of K.S.A. 2-129 apply, having a population of more than fourteen thousand (14,000) and not more than seventeen thousand (17,000) and…

2-129f. Same; election, when. Said levies will be made unless a petition requesting an election upon the proposition of making said levies, signed by electors equal in number to not less than ten percent (10%) of the electors of the county who voted for the secretary of state at …

2-129g. Tax levy for fair purposes; Montgomery county. As a complete alternative to the authority now provided by K.S.A. 2-129, the board of county commissioners of Montgomery county shall make an annual tax levy upon all of the assessed taxable tangible valuation of such county …

2-129h. Same; election, when. Said levies will be made unless a petition requesting an election upon the proposition of making said levies, signed by electors equal in number to not less than ten percent (10%) of the electors of the county who voted for secretary of state at the …

2-129i. Tax levies for fair associations in urban area counties; use of proceeds; protest petition and election. The board of county commissioners of any county designated as an urban area by K.S.A. 19-2654, and amendments thereto, and in which there is an officially recognized c…

2-130. Levy; estimates, time for submission. The county commissioners of any county having a fair association as herein provided may, annually at the time set by law for making levies, levy a tax sufficient in amount to provide for the county aid authorized by K.S.A. 2-129; such …

2-131. Payment; apportionment between fairs. On or before thirty days following the close of the county fair, upon filing a statement certified by the secretary and treasurer of the fair association, setting forth the actual amount of money necessary to pay for the premiums and r…

2-131a. Certain counties having fair associations; tax levy for buildings and grounds, use of proceeds. The board of county commissioners of any county having a population of not less than twenty-nine thousand (29,000) nor more than sixty thousand (60,000) in which there is locat…

2-131b. Counties having fair associations; tax levy for buildings, use of proceeds; protest petition and election. The board of county commissioners of any county in which there is a fair association or a society which is organized and operating under the provisions of K.S.A. 2-1…

2-131c. Tax levy in certain counties for buildings and maintenance thereof; request. The board of county commissioners of any county having a population of more than one hundred twenty-five thousand persons and having an assessed tangible valuation of more than one hundred fifty …

2-131d. Certain counties having fair associations; tax levy for buildings and grounds, use of proceeds. The board of county commissioners of any county in which there is an officially recognized county fair association, upon the request of such fair association, may make an annua…

2-131e. No-fund warrants for purchase of grounds, erection and maintenance of buildings; limitation; tax levies. Whenever the board of county commissioners of any county in which there is an officially recognized county fair association, and having a population of not less than 3…

2-131f. Ellis county; acquisition of land for fairground expansion; petition; election. The board of county commissioners of Ellis county, upon request of the officially recognized county fair association in Ellis county, and upon making a determination that it is in the best int…

2-132. County free fair; petition and election; purchase of grounds; tax levy, use of proceeds; admission to fair. Whenever, in the opinion of the board of county commissioners of any county in this state, the agricultural and industrial interests of such county can be advanced b…

2-132b. Contributions to payment of premiums awarded in adjoining counties. With respect to any county fair held in any county, the board of county commissioners of any adjoining county which does not maintain, or assist in maintaining, a county or district fair may pay the premi…

2-133. Control by county; appointment of directors. All land and buildings acquired by virtue of the provisions of K.S.A. 2-132 shall be held in the name of the county and under the control of the board of county commissioners: Provided, The board of county commissioners shall at…

2-135. State fair board, community fair associations and county fair associations; eminent domain. The state fair board in the name of the state of Kansas, and each community fair association, and each county fair association, organized and operating under the laws of the state o…

2-136. Mortgage of property. Property, real and personal, owned by county fair associations organized and operating under the provisions of this act shall not be mortgaged except on a majority vote of the stockholders at an annual meeting. History: L. 1929, ch. 1, § 12; L. 1975, …

2-137. Forfeiture of benefits and recognition; exemption; discontinuance during wartime. Any county fair association organized and operating under the provisions of this act failing to hold a fair each year shall forfeit all benefits provided in this act, including official recog…

2-138. Misrepresentation; penalty. Any person who shall knowingly and/or willfully misrepresent any exhibit, or furnish any fair association a false pedigree of livestock, shall upon conviction thereof be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than one thousa…

2-139. Withholding county aid; causes. The board of county commissioners may withhold county money from any fair association coming under the provisions of this act, which knowingly permits the sale of intoxicating liquor, the operation of any gambling device, or any immoral show…

2-140. Trespassing on fairgrounds; penalty. Every person being in or upon the grounds owned or controlled by any fair association who shall attempt to make any display of goods, wares or merchandise, or to furnish any entertainment, without permission of the managing officers of …

2-141. Intent of law; not applicable to certain counties. It is the purpose of this act to provide a general law under which all fairs and agricultural societies of one county or less may operate, and as such shall be liberally construed, and shall be known as the county agricult…

2-141a. Invalidity of K.S.A. 2-125 through 2-141. If any section, paragraph or provision of this act shall be held to be invalid by any court for any reason, it shall be presumed that this act would have been passed by the legislature without such invalid section, paragraph or pr…

2-142. City aid for county fairs in certain counties; levy. (a) Except as provided by subsection (b), in any county in the state of Kansas having a population of not less than 9,500 nor more than 11,500 in the year 1928 as shown by the census in the office of the state board of a…

2-143. County aid; when, amount, purposes. (a) Except as provided by subsection (b), whenever any such city shall levy a tax for the purpose of maintaining a county free fair, the board of county commissioners of the county in which such city is located shall appropriate from the…

2-144. Fair board; how appointed; organization. The county free fair shall be managed by a board of seven members, four of whom shall be appointed by the governing body of the city and three of whom shall be appointed by the board of county commissioners of the county in which th…

2-144d. Fairs in certain counties; designation as an official fair association. Any county free fair established pursuant to K.S.A. 2-142, and amendments thereto, may apply to the board of county commissioners for designation as an official fair association. If recognized as an o…

2-145. County poultry show association; county aid, amount; conditions. The board of county commissioners of any county in the state of Kansas is hereby authorized to issue warrants in favor of the treasurer of any county poultry show association in such county, not to exceed the…

2-145a. Tax levies for fair building in certain counties. The board of county commissioners of a county having a population of more than fourteen thousand (14,000) and less than fifteen thousand (15,000) with an assessed tangible valuation of more than forty million dollars ($40,…

2-158. Board of directors, annual election meetings, terms, vacancies; recognition of association by state board of agriculture. (a) (1) A meeting shall be held at 7:00 p.m. on December 8, 1987, at the Kaw Valley cooperative building at 5715 West 21st Street in Topeka, Kansas, fo…

2-159. Same; annual meeting; executive board; treasurer, surety bond. The board of directors of the Shawnee county fair association shall meet annually on the first Tuesday of December immediately following the election meeting provided for in K.S.A. 2-158 and shall elect from am…

2-160. Treasurer; deposit and disbursement of association funds; annual report thereof. All moneys received by the treasurer for the fair association shall be deposited by the treasurer in a bank designated by the executive board and authorized to receive public deposits. The tre…

2-161. Bylaws governing conduct of fair; annual budget. The initial members of the board of directors of the fair association shall adopt bylaws and rules and regulations governing the fair association in its activities of conducting a fair. Thereafter such bylaws may be amended …

2-162. Tax levy; use of proceeds; protest petition and election. The board of county commissioners of Shawnee county may levy an annual tax of not to exceed 2/10 of one mill upon all the taxable tangible property within the county for the purpose of funding the budget of the Shaw…

2-163. Officially recognized county fair and livestock show associations; continuation. (a) Any county fair association or livestock show association which received official recognition from the secretary of agriculture prior to July 1, 2013, shall remain an officially recognized…

2-201. State fair at Hutchinson; unlawful acts. A state fair shall be held annually in the city of Hutchinson, Kansas, at such time as shall be fixed by the state fair board. It shall be unlawful for any person, corporation or association, or for any corporate entity other than t…

2-202. State fairgrounds and buildings; use for other purposes. The tract of land conveyed by the county of Reno to the state of Kansas for fair purposes, and all other real estate acquired by the state of Kansas, for fair purposes, shall be held by the state of Kansas as a state…

2-202a. Same; listing for taxation. The state fair board shall on or before April 1 each year, file in the office of the county assessor of Reno county, Kansas, a list of all persons or firms having property stored on the fairgrounds, or in the buildings located thereon, as of th…

2-202b. Same; razing, repair, maintenance or remodeling of frame buildings. The state fair board may raze any frame building located on the state fairgrounds, or portion of same, when it is deemed by the board unsafe, obsolete or of not sufficient use to justify maintenance. The …

2-203. Moneys for county exhibits. For the purpose of aiding a more complete exhibition of the resources of the state at the said fair the board of county commissioners of each county is hereby authorized to expend annually not to exceed the sum of five hundred dollars out of the…