Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

38.04 ANNUAL MEETINGS; REPORTS. Every county agricultural society shall hold an annual meeting for the election of officers and the transaction of other business on or before the third Tuesday in November. Service on the county agricultural society board or as an officer of the b…

38.05 POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN. Every county agricultural society may acquire, by power of eminent domain, such private real property as may be necessary or convenient for the transaction of the public business for which it was formed. History: (7888-1) 1921 c 296 s 1; 2006 c 214 …

38.12 APPROPRIATIONS BY MUNICIPALITIES. The council of any city and the board of supervisors of any town having fairs of county and district agricultural societies or associations, who are members of the Minnesota State Agricultural Society, held within or in close proximity to t…

38.14 APPROPRIATIONS FOR COUNTY FAIRS. § Subdivision 1.Conditions, procedures, bond. A county board may annually appropriate money to assist in maintaining a county fair managed by a county agricultural society. The appropriation shall be made either to the treasurer of the socie…

38.15 SITES AND BUILDINGS. The county board in any county may appropriate money for the purpose of procuring a suitable site and erecting on it a suitable county building, for the building or repairing of a race track and for grading and improving the grounds, to be used in conne…

38.16 EXEMPTION FROM ZONING ORDINANCES. When lands lying within the corporate limits of towns or cities are owned by a county or agricultural society and used for agricultural fair purposes, the lands and the buildings now or hereafter erected are exempt from the zoning, building…

38.18 COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS; IMPROVEMENT AIDED. Each town, statutory city, or school district in this state, at any time having an estimated market value of all its taxable property of more than $105,000,000, and having a county fair located within its corporate limits, may pay part…

38.19 EXPENDITURE OF APPROPRIATIONS. The county board owning any such fairground may expend the funds so appropriated and paid over by any such town, statutory city, or school district for the use of the county, in the same manner as the funds of the county set apart for these pu…

38.20 SUPPLEMENTAL TO EXISTING LAWS. Sections 38.18 to 38.20 shall be supplemental to any existing laws authorizing any town, statutory city, or school district to appropriate funds to aid in the carrying on of any county fair located within the limits of the town, statutory city…

38.27 COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. § Subdivision 1.Tax levy; powers. All counties may annually levy a tax upon all property subject to taxation and appropriate and pay over the proceeds of this tax to any county agricultural society of its county which is a member of the State …

38.33 COORDINATION TO MAINTAIN COUNTY EXTENSION WORK. Sections 38.33 to 38.38 coordinate the work of the federal, state, and county government and the Minnesota Extension Service of the University of Minnesota to maintain county extension work. History: (6121) 1923 c 423 s 1; 195…

38.331 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Application. In sections 38.33 to 38.38, the definitions in this section apply. § Subd. 2.County extension work. "County extension work" means educational programs and services provided by extension educators in the areas of agriculture; agricu…

38.34 COUNTY BOARD MAY PAY FOR EXTENSION WORK. A board of county commissioners may incur expenses and spend money for county extension work as provided in sections 38.33 to 38.38. History: (6122) 1923 c 423 s 2; 1953 c 202 s 2; 1990 c 376 s 3

38.345 APPROPRIATIONS BY MUNICIPALITIES. The council of any city and the board of supervisors of any town may spend money for county extension work, as provided in sections 38.33 to 38.38. History: 2010 c 333 art 1 s 14

38.35 STATE APPROPRIATIONS; HOW SPENT. Money appropriated by the state to maintain and pay expenses of county extension work must be spent under the direction of the director of extension, who, acting with the county extension committee, shall carry out sections 38.33 to 38.38. H…

38.36 COUNTY EXTENSION COMMITTEE. § Subdivision 1.Committee composition. A county must have an extension committee. The committee must have nine members. Two members must be county commissioners appointed by the county board. The county auditor or the auditor's designee must be a…

38.37 COUNTY EXTENSION COMMITTEE; PROGRAM, COUNTY AGENTS. The county extension committee shall, annually, plan a program of county extension work in cooperation with the Minnesota Extension Service of the University of Minnesota and the United States Department of Agriculture. To…

38.38 EXTENSION COMMITTEE; DUTY, OFFICERS, PAY. The county extension committee shall encourage all individuals and organizations to cooperate to make profitable use of extension activities. It shall elect its own chair and vice-chair, who shall serve for one year. The county audi…