2005 Missouri Revised Statutes - § 262.460. — May pay fifty percent of cash premiums offered by local agricultural fairs, when--director and fair buildings defined.

262.460. 1. The director of the department of agriculture may pay to nonprofit county and district fairs and to regularly organized or incorporated nonprofit agricultural societies having as their object the holding of shows, exhibitions or fairs for the advancement of agriculture in Missouri as partial reimbursement of premiums paid a percentage not to exceed fifty percent of premiums actually paid by the organizations on approved classes as enumerated in this section. Money received as entry fees and deductions from premiums shall not be considered as premiums paid by the organization and the total amount paid as state aid on the premiums to shows or fairs in any one county shall not exceed thirty-five thousand dollars in any one year, if funds are available. These payments are to be prorated to all participating fairs on a percentage basis of premiums paid on standard classifications approved by the director of the department of agriculture.

2. The director of the department of agriculture shall grant such state aid only on premiums paid on approved classes of:

(1) Cattle, swine, sheep, goats, farm work stock, including mules shown to halter or farm vehicles, jack stock and light horses to halter;

(2) Poultry, eggs, rabbits and dairy products;

(3) Field, garden and horticultural products;

(4) Home economic products;

(5) 4-H and vocational agriculture projects including F.F.A.;

(6) Exhibits by educational institutions.

3. Counties, municipalities, or other political subdivisions may be eligible for matched assistance of not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars annually to any one such subdivision, for the purpose of new constructions, remodeling, maintaining, repairing, or otherwise making fair buildings more suitable for fair purposes, upon compliance with the requirements of sections 262.460 to 262.465.

4. As used in sections 262.460 to 262.465, the following terms mean:

(1) "Director", the state director of the department of agriculture;

(2) "Fair buildings", the youth and agricultural facilities in which a fair is conducted and which are owned by the county or municipality or political subdivision, and are used principally for holding a county fair or community fair.

(RSMo 1939 § 14178, A.L. 1947 V. I p. 31, A.L. 1957 p. 24, A.L. 1963 p. 401, A.L. 1973 H.B. 310, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1085)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 12501; 1919 § 12070