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Title 17, Title 17. Corporations-Partnerships

41 chapters · 1,271 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 171,271 Ch 1701, Chapter 1701 | General Corporation Law118 Ch 1706, Chapter 1706 | Ohio Revised Limited …92 Ch 1751, Chapter 1751 | Health Insuring Corpo…83 Ch 1707, Chapter 1707 | Securities77 Ch 1733, Chapter 1733 | Credit Unions77 Ch 1782, Chapter 1782 | Limited Partnerships76 Ch 1776, Chapter 1776 | Ohio Uniform Partners…73 Ch 1702, Chapter 1702 | Nonprofit Corporation Law67 Ch 1745, Chapter 1745 | Uniform Unincorporate…54 Ch 1729, Chapter 1729 | Ohio Cooperative Law53 Ch 1715, Chapter 1715 | Religious And Benevol…52 Ch 1713, Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations50 Ch 1711, Chapter 1711 | Agricultural Societie…40 Ch 1703, Chapter 1703 | Foreign Corporations30

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Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.01 County agricultural societies
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(A) A county agricultural society is created when both of the following occur: (1) Thirty or more persons who are residents of the same county adopt a constitution and bylaws governing the society. (2) The residents described in division (A) of this section elect a board of direc…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.02 Independent agricultural societies
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(A) An independent agricultural society is created if both of the following occur: (1) Thirty or more persons of the same county, or of not more than three contiguous counties, adopt a constitution and bylaws governing the society. (2) The persons described in division (A)(1) of …
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.03 Reimbursement to agricultural societies for junior club work
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(A)(1) The board of county commissioners of a county, in which a county or independent agricultural society is located that receives state or county aid, annually shall appropriate an amount determined by the board for the society's junior club. The board shall ensure that the am…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.04 Premiums
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Every society formed under sections 1711.01 and 1711.02 of the Revised Code shall annually offer and award premiums for the improvement of grains, fruits, vegetables, livestock, articles of domestic industry, public school displays, and such other articles, productions, and impro…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.05 Annual financial report and report of proceedings

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Every county agricultural society annually shall do all of the following: (A) Make a report of its proceedings during the year; (B) File a financial report, in accordance with section 117.38 of the Revised Code and forward it to the director of agriculture at or before the annual…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.06 [Former R.C. 901.06, amended and renumbered by H.B. 665, 133rd General Assembly, effective 4-12-2021] Director's annual meeting with county societies

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(A) Prior to the first day of December of each year, the director of agriculture shall set a date in January of the following year, on which the director shall meet with the presidents or other authorized delegates of agricultural societies which conduct fairs in compliance with …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.07 Board of directors of county or independent agricultural society

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(A) The board of directors of a county or independent agricultural society shall consist of at least eight members. An employee of the OSU extension shall serve with the board as a nonvoting member. The director of agriculture shall determine the terms of office for members of th…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.071 Agricultural society treasurer's duties

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The treasurer of a county or independent agricultural society, or a person under the supervision of the treasurer, shall collect, account for, record, deposit, and disburse all funds of the society.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.08 Election of officers

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(A) The board of directors of a county or independent agricultural society shall annually meet not later than the thirtieth day of November. At such meeting, the board shall elect a president, a vice-president, a treasurer, a secretary, and such other officers as it may deem prop…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.081 Eligibility for public office

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The positions of members of the board of directors, officers, and employees of a county or independent agricultural society are not public offices, and persons holding those positions are eligible to hold any public office except for the office of county commissioner.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.09 Forbidden activities

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(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, county agricultural societies, independent agricultural societies, and the Ohio expositions commission shall not permit during any fair, or for one week before or three days after any fair, any dealing in spirituous liquors, or at…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.091 Sale of seasonal tickets, fundraisers

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(A) Any member of a county or independent agricultural society may sell seasonal tickets or passes for the society's annual exhibition. The sale of such tickets or passes need not be conducted on the premises of the fairgrounds. (B) Any person may sell tickets for fundraisers hel…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.10 Aid of state withheld

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If it is shown from the report of any county agricultural society, from witnesses, or otherwise that the annual exhibition held by such society was not conducted along moral or agricultural lines or was not of sufficient educational value to justify the expenditure of funds as pr…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.11 License required to operate certain concessions - inspectors

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(A) No person shall operate any concession at any fair or exposition conducted by a county or independent agricultural society or by the Ohio expositions commission without first obtaining from the director of agriculture a license to do so under division (B) of this section, nor…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.12 Certain activities forbidden

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During an Ohio state fair or county or independent agricultural society fair, no person shall cry, hawk, sell, or expose for sale any merchandise except the official fair or race program upon any public road at any point within one thousand feet of any entrance or exit of the fai…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.13 Nature and powers of county society

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County agricultural societies are hereby declared bodies corporate and politic, and as such they are capable of suing and being sued and of holding in fee simple any real estate purchased by them as sites for their fairs. In addition, they may do either or both of the following: …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.131 Policies for use of credit card accounts

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(A) Not later than three months after the effective date of this amendment, the board of directors of a county agricultural society or an independent agricultural society that holds a credit card account on the effective date of this amendment shall adopt a written policy for the…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.14 Appropriation of land for agricultural fair purposes - procedure

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When it is necessary in the opinion of any county agricultural society to procure or enlarge any site for the purpose of holding an agricultural fair, proceedings to appropriate may be had as provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.15 County aid to county agricultural society

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In any county in which there is a duly organized county agricultural society, the board of county commissioners or the county agricultural society itself may purchase or lease, for a term of not less than twenty years, real estate on which to hold fairs under the management and c…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.16 Expenditure of county aid by county society

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When the control and management of a fairground is in a county agricultural society, and the board of county commissioners has appropriated an amount for the aid of the society as provided in section 1711.15 of the Revised Code, the society, with the consent of the board, may con…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.17 County joint ownership

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(A) In any counties in which there is a duly organized independent agricultural society, the respective boards of county commissioners may purchase or lease jointly, for a term of not less than twenty years, real estate on which to hold fairs under the management and control of t…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.18 Issuance of county bonds to pay debts of county society

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In a county in which there is a county agricultural society indebted fifteen thousand dollars or more, and such society has purchased a fairground or title to such fairground is vested in fee in the county, the board of county commissioners, upon the presentation of a petition si…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.19 Bonds

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If a majority of the voters of a county voting upon the question of issuing bonds under section 1711.18 of the Revised Code vote in favor thereof, the board of county commissioners, for the purpose of liquidating the county agricultural society's indebtedness, shall issue and sel…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.20 Levy for payment of bonds

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The board of county commissioners, upon the issuance of bonds under sections 1711.18 and 1711.19 of the Revised Code, shall levy a tax upon all the taxable property on the tax duplicate of the county for the purpose of paying such bonds as they mature and the interest thereon, at…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.21 Use of money raised by county taxation

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When money has been raised by taxation by a county for the purpose of leasing lands for county fairs, erecting buildings for county fair purposes, or making improvements on a county fairground, or for any purpose connected with the use of a county fairground or with the managemen…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.22 County aid to county and independent agricultural societies

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(A)(1) When a county or a county agricultural society owns or holds under a lease real estate used as a fairground, and such society has the control and management of such lands and buildings, the board of county commissioners shall, on the request of such society, annually appro…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.23 Title to fairgrounds vests in county on dissolution of society

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When a county agricultural society ceases to exist, in a county out of whose treasury payments have been made for real estate, or improvements thereon, for the use of such society, or for the liquidation of indebtedness of such society, all such real estate and improvements shall…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.24 Insurance on county society's buildings

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The board of county commissioners of a county in which there is a county agricultural society shall insure the buildings on the grounds of such society for the benefit of such society.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.25 Sale, lease, purchase, and exchange of sites by county society

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If a county agricultural society desires to sell its site in order to purchase another, or if for any reason such site is unfit or insufficient for the purposes for which it is used, and if at a regular meeting of such society's board of directors, by a vote, upon a call of the y…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.26 Authority to sell or exchange site

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(A) A county agricultural society or independent agricultural society may sell any part of the premises that are used by the society as a site on which to hold annual exhibitions or exchange any part thereof for other lands if such premises are in the possession or under the cont…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.27 Contracts for purchase or lease of new site by county society

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When a county agricultural society has given notice to the board of county commissioners as provided in section 1711.25 of the Revised Code and has selected, or secured options for the purchase or lease of, a new site for holding county fairs in the county, its board of directors…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.28 Payment for new site with county funds or bonds

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Payment for the new site purchased or leased for the use of a county agricultural society under sections 1711.25 and 1711.27 of the Revised Code and for improvements thereon may be made by the board of county commissioners from any unappropriated funds in the county treasury at t…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.29 Levy for payment of bonds

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To provide for the payment of bonds issued under section 1711.28 of the Revised Code and interest thereon, the board of county commissioners may levy such annual taxes on all the taxable property of the county as are necessary to provide a sinking fund for the redemption of the b…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.30 Election on question of issuing bonds

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Before issuing bonds under section 1711.28 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners, by resolution, shall submit to the qualified electors of the county at the next general election for county officers, held not less than ninety days after receiving from the county …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.31 Control of lands when title vested in county commissioners - division of moneys when land appropriated for another public purpose

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When the title to grounds and improvements occupied by an agricultural society is in the board of county commissioners, the control and management of such lands and improvements shall be vested in the board of directors of such society so long as they are occupied by it and used …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.32 Execution of conveyance of fairgrounds

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Conveyances of grounds sold under section 1711.25 of the Revised Code, which are owned exclusively by any county agricultural society, may be executed by the president of such society, as such. Grounds owned partly by such a society and partly by the county may be conveyed by dee…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.33 Encumbering of fairgrounds partly owned by county

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(A) When a board of county commissioners pays or has paid money out of the county treasury for the purchase of real estate as a site for the holding of fairs by a county agricultural society, the society shall not incur any debt, by mortgage or otherwise, without the consent of t…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.34 Purchase of additional fairgrounds

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If the law makes it the duty of the board of county commissioners to purchase additional fairgrounds for the use of a county agricultural society, the board of directors of such society shall prosecute the proceedings for appropriation to their final conclusion, except as to paym…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.35 Special constables

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On the application of a state, county, township, or independent agricultural society, of an industrial association, or of any other association or meeting of citizens for the purpose of promoting social or literary intercourse, a judge of a county court or judge of a municipal co…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1711.99 Penalty

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(A) Whoever violates section 1711.11 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars. (B) Whoever violates section 1711.12 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars.