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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 247 PROMOTION OF AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE
247.140 Functions of fair board.
Download pdfcontrol or transferred to it by the State Property and Buildings Commission,
for any purposes mentioned in this section and the physical properties so
under its custody and control or transferred to it are hereinafter referred to in
this section, and in KRS 247.150 and 247.160, as the "state fairgrounds and an
area in a city of the first class to be used as an exhibition center." (b) May erect and repair buildings on the state fairgrounds and exhibition center, make any and all necessary or proper improvements, and generally carry on a
program of development and extension of facilities designed to accomplish
the objectives defined in this section. (c) Shall promote the progress of the state and stimulate public interest in the advantages and development of the state by providing the facilities of the state
fairgrounds for agricultural and industrial exhibitions, public gatherings,
cultural activities, and other functions calculated to advance the educational,
physical, and cultural interests of the public and by providing the facilities of
the exhibition center for conventions, trade shows, public gatherings, and
other functions calculated to advance and enhance the visitor industry,
economy, entertainment, cultural and educational interests of the public. (d) May hold an annual fair on the state fairgrounds, for the exhibition of agricultural, mechanical, horticultural, dairy, forestry, poultry, livestock,
mineral, and all other industrial interests of the state, and prepare premium
lists and establish rules of exhibition for the fair. (e) May purchase liability insurance for the members and executive officers exempted from the classified service of the state by KRS 18A.115. (f) Shall operate the North American International Livestock Exposition, which shall be under the direction of a director appointed by the Governor upon the
recommendation of the North American International Livestock Exposition
Executive Committee. (2) The State Fair Board may take, acquire and hold property, and all interest therein, by deed, gift, devise, bequest, lease, or eminent domain, or by transfer from the
State Property and Buildings Commission, and may dispose of any property so
acquired in the manner provided by law. In the exercise of its power of eminent
domain it shall proceed in the manner provided in the Eminent Domain Act of
Kentucky. Effective: July 13, 1984
History: Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 404, sec. 35, effective July 13, 1984. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 448, sec. 70, effective July 15, 1982. -- Amended 1980 Ky. Acts
ch. 133, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1980. -- Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 140, sec. 96. -
- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 154, sec. 1. -- Amended 1950 Ky. Acts ch. 217, sec. 3.
-- Amended 1946 Ky. Acts ch. 80, sec. 5. -- Amended 1944 Ky. Acts ch. 65, sec. 1. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat.
sec. 4618i-5.
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