Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

37.05 OFFICERS; COMPENSATION; EXPENSES. The annual honorarium of the president of the board of managers is $1,400, and that of the other members is $1,000 each. On the final day of each annual meeting of the society the board shall elect a secretary to hold office for one year an…

37.06 SECRETARY; LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR; DUTIES; REPORT. The secretary shall keep a complete record of the proceedings of the annual meetings of the State Agricultural Society and all meetings of the board of managers and any committee of the board, keep all accounts of the society …

37.07 MONTHLY STATEMENTS BY SECRETARY; PURCHASES, EXPENDITURES. The secretary of the State Agricultural Society shall prepare a signed statement each month summarizing receipts and expenditures for the preceding month, which must be approved by the president or a vice-president o…

37.13 OWNERSHIP OF MONEY AND PROPERTY; CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS. § Subdivision 1.Use of money. The state owns all money and other property of the society in the name of the society and there may be no division of its assets among society members. Money received by the society must be…

37.14 MANAGEMENT OF PROPERTY; GENERAL OFFICES. The custody, management, and control of the fairgrounds and all fairgrounds structures are vested in the society as a department of the state, and its general offices containing its property and records must be maintained upon the fa…

37.15 EXHIBITIONS. The society shall hold upon the fairgrounds an annual fair and may invite the cooperation of any other states or countries in that fair. The society shall provide for and pay premiums, and money spent for premiums, exhibits, or other displays must be for the pu…

37.16 RULES; VIOLATION. The society may make all bylaws, ordinances, and rules consistent with law which it considers necessary or proper for the government of the fairgrounds and all fairs to be held on them, and for the protection, health, safety, and comfort of the public on t…

37.17 SHOWS, EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES, PRIVILEGES. § Subdivision 1.License, regulation. The society may license and regulate shows, exhibitions, performances, and privileges on the fairgrounds, revoke licenses, and prohibit, remove, and summarily stop exhibitions, performances, …

37.18 UNLICENSED OR IMPROPER EXHIBITION. A person who engages in a play, game, concert, or theatrical or other performance, or who exhibits a show of any kind on the fairgrounds without a license from the society is guilty of a misdemeanor and must be removed from the fairgrounds…

37.19 CONTRACTS. The society may contract in its own name and through its officers and agents without advertising for or publicly requesting bids. This chapter and all ordinances, bylaws, and rules adopted by the society's board of managers are a part of every contract entered in…

37.20 SPECIAL PEACE OFFICERS. The secretary or the president of the society may appoint, in a writing signed by either of them, as many peace officers, as defined in section 626.84, subdivision 1, clause (c), as are necessary, both during the annual fair and throughout the year f…

37.21 SALE OF LIQUORS. § Subdivision 1.Liquor prohibited. Except as provided in subdivision 2, no person may sell, barter, give away, or otherwise dispose of or introduce, have, or keep for barter, gift, or sale, any intoxicating liquors of any kind upon the State Fairgrounds, or…

37.22 LOCKUP; SEIZURE OF LIQUORS. The society may provide and maintain a watchhouse or lockup on the fairgrounds for the confinement of offenders and the temporary detention of suspected persons. The society's peace officers shall, without warrant, seize and destroy any intoxicat…

37.24 UNLAWFUL ADMISSIONS. Any person who steals or unlawfully obtains a ticket, paper, or other writing entitling, or purporting to entitle, the holder to admission to any part of the State Fairgrounds or who sells or disposes of a ticket which upon its face appears to be nontra…

37.25 MISDEMEANORS. In addition to other misdemeanors specified by statute, during the annual state fair or during any period when the board of managers requires fees for admission to the fairgrounds, every person who trespasses on, enters, or attempts to enter the fairgrounds in…

37.27 MS 1981 Supp [Repealed, 1982 c 625 s 16] 37.27 FAIR FOUNDATION. The State Agricultural Society may establish a nonprofit corporation to be operated exclusively for charitable purposes as contemplated by sections 170(c)(2) and 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue …

37.31 ISSUANCE OF BONDS. § Subdivision 1.Bonding authority. The society may issue negotiable bonds in a principal amount that the society determines necessary to provide sufficient money for achieving its purposes, including the payment of interest on bonds of the society, the es…

37.32 TENDER OPTION. An obligation may be issued giving its owner the right to tender or the society to demand tender of the obligation to the society or another person designated by it, for purchase at a specified time or times, if the society has first entered into an agreement…

37.33 BOND FUND. § Subdivision 1.Creation and contents. The society may establish a special fund or funds for the security of one or more or all series of its bonds. The funds must be known as debt service reserve funds. The society may pay into each debt service reserve fund: (1…

37.34 MONEY OF THE SOCIETY. The society may contract with the holders of any of its bonds as to the custody, collection, securing, investment, and payment of money of the society or money held in trust or otherwise for the payment of bonds, and to carry out the contract. Money he…

37.35 NONLIABILITY. § Subdivision 1.Nonliability of individuals. No member of the society or other person executing the bonds is liable personally on the bonds or is subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason of their issuance. § Subd. 2.Nonliability of state. …

37.36 PURCHASE AND CANCELLATION BY SOCIETY. Subject to agreements with bondholders that may then exist, the society may purchase out of money available for the purpose, bonds of the society which shall then be canceled, at a price not exceeding the following amounts: (1) if the b…

37.37 STATE PLEDGE AGAINST IMPAIRMENT OF CONTRACTS. The state pledges and agrees with the holders of bonds issued under section 37.31 that the state will not limit or alter the rights vested in the society to fulfill the terms of any agreements made with the bondholders or in any…