Kansas Statutes

Chapter 2: Agriculture

Article 3: Fairs In Counties Over 50,000 Population

Statutes:

• 2-301: Tax levies for fair purposes in certain counties; use of proceeds; election; premiums.
• 2-302: Petition for tax levy election; time of election.
• 2-303: Levies not used for speed premiums.
• 2-304: Payments out of tax-levy funds; transfer of unexpended balances to general fund.
• 2-305: Annual report to county commissioners by fair associations.

• 2-301: Tax levies for fair purposes in certain counties; use of proceeds; election; premiums. Whenever any county agricultural or fair association, or whenever any livestock association or wheat show located in any county having a population of over fifty thousand (50,000) shall have provided itself, or themselves, by ownership or lease, with suitable grounds and facilities, for holding an agricultural fair, wheat show or livestock show, with a design to encourage improvement in livestock, tillage, crops, implements, mechanical fabrics, fine arts, and articles of domestic industry, by offering premiums for the best exhibits thereof, and shall have held such a fair during at least one year in said county, it shall be the duty of the county commissioners of such county to provide annually for the levy of a tax and to appropriate annually the proceeds of such tax for the payment of such premiums as may be offered by the association having in charge the holding of such fair for improvement in livestock, tillage, crops, implements, mechanical fabrics, fine arts, and articles of domestic industry and to pay a portion of the principal and interest on bonds issued under the authority of K.S.A. 12-1774, and amendments thereto, by cities located in the county. Such tax shall not be levied until the proposition shall have been submitted to the qualified voters of such county at a general election, or a special election, called for such purpose, and the making of such levy shall have been ordered by a majority of the electors voting on the proposition. Whenever in any county contemplated by the provisions of this act, a wheat show and a livestock show shall both have been held for more than three years, the amounts available for premiums, as herein provided, shall be divided equally between the said wheat show and livestock show.

        History:   L. 1915, ch. 178, § 1; L. 1923, ch. 142, § 1; R.S. 1923, § 2-301; L. 1975, ch. 162, § 3; L. 1979, ch. 52, § 19; July 1.

• 2-302: Petition for tax levy election; time of election. Whenever a petition shall be presented to the board of county commissioners of any such county, signed by at least one thousand of the qualified electors thereof, requesting the submission of a proposition to levy an annual tax for the purposes mentioned in this act, it shall be the duty of the county commissioners of such county to cause such vote to be taken at the next general election to be held in such county: Provided, The same shall be held within sixty days after the time when such petition shall have been presented. Otherwise, said commissioners shall immediately call a special election for such purpose. Said special election shall be held within sixty days after the date upon which such petition shall have been presented.

        History:   L. 1915, ch. 178, § 2; March 27; R.S. 1923, § 2-302.

• 2-303: Levies not used for speed premiums. No part of the funds provided for by this act shall be used for the purpose of paying premiums offered for speed.

        History:   L. 1915, ch. 178, § 3; March 27; R.S. 1923, § 2-303.

• 2-304: Payments out of tax-levy funds; transfer of unexpended balances to general fund. All payments out of the funds provided for in this act, shall be made by the county treasurer upon the written order of the association in charge of such fair; each order to be signed by the president and attested by the secretary, of such association. Any balance of such fund remaining in the hands of the county treasurer after the payment of the premiums herein provided for shall be annually transferred to the general fund of the county.

        History:   L. 1915, ch. 178, § 4; March 27; R.S. 1923, § 2-304.

• 2-305: Annual report to county commissioners by fair associations. It shall be the duty of each association having in charge any fair receiving aid under the provisions of this act, to make and file, annually, on or before the 31st day of December, with the county commissioners of the proper county, a report showing the total amount of money received from the county treasurer, and an itemized statement of the disbursements of such money. The correctness of said report shall be certified to, under oath, by the president and secretary of such association.

        History:   L. 1915, ch. 178, § 5; March 27; R.S. 1923, § 2-305.