Ohio Revised Code Chapter 1711 - Agricultural Corporations; Amusement Rides

• Section 1711.01 - County Agricultural Societies.
  When thirty or more persons who are residents of the same county organize themselves into a county agricultural society which adopts a constitution and...
• Section 1711.02 - Independent Agricultural Societies.
  When thirty or more persons of the same county, or of not more than three contiguous counties, have been organized into an independent agricultural...
• Section 1711.03 - Reimbursement To Agricultural Societies For Junior Club Work.
  Upon the presentation of a certificate from the board of county commissioners of any county, certifying that any county or independent agricultural society that...
• Section 1711.04 - Premiums.
  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, fruit,...
• Section 1711.05 - Publication Of Treasurer's Account - Reporting Of Awards By County Society.
  Every county agricultural society annually shall publish an abstract of its treasurer's account in a newspaper of general circulation in the county and make...
• Section 1711.06 - Membership Of County Society.
  Members of a county agricultural society must be residents of the county in which it is organized. The annual membership fee shall be fixed...
• Section 1711.07 - Board Of Directors Of County Or Independent Agricultural Society.
  The board of directors of a county or independent agricultural society shall consist of at least eight members. An employee of the OSU extension...
• Section 1711.08 - Election Of Officers.
  The board of directors of a county or independent agricultural society shall annually meet not later than the first Saturday of January 1995, and...
• Section 1711.081 - Eligibility For Public Office.
  The positions of members of the board of directors, officers, and employees of a county or independent agricultural society are not public offices, and...
• Section 1711.09 - Forbidden Activities.
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, county agricultural societies, independent agricultural societies, and the Ohio expositions commission shall not permit during any fair,...
• Section 1711.10 - Aid Of State Withheld.
  If it is shown from the report of any county agricultural society, from witnesses, or otherwise that the annual exhibition held by such society...
• Section 1711.11 - License Required To Operate Certain Concessions - Inspectors.
  (A) No person shall operate any concession at any fair or exposition conducted by a county or independent agricultural society or by the Ohio...
• Section 1711.12 - Certain Activities Forbidden.
  During an Ohio state fair or county or independent agricultural society fair, no person shall cry, hawk, sell, or expose for sale any merchandise...
• Section 1711.13 - Nature And Powers Of County Society.
  County agricultural societies are hereby declared bodies corporate and politic, and as such they shall be capable of suing and being sued and of...
• Section 1711.131 - Use Of Credit Card For Expenses.
  (A) The board of directors of a county agricultural society or an independent agricultural society may authorize by resolution an officer or employee of...
• Section 1711.14 - Appropriation Of Land For Agricultural Fair Purposes - Procedure.
  When it is necessary in the opinion of any county agricultural society to procure or enlarge any site for the purpose of holding an...
• Section 1711.15 - County Aid To County Agricultural Society.
  In any county in which there is a duly organized county agricultural society, the board of county commissioners or the county agricultural society itself...
• Section 1711.16 - Expenditure Of County Aid By County Society.
  When the control and management of a fairground is in a county agricultural society, and the board of county commissioners has appropriated an amount...
• Section 1711.17 - County Joint Ownership.
  (A) In any counties in which there is a duly organized independent agricultural society, the respective boards of county commissioners may purchase or lease...
• Section 1711.18 - Issuance Of County Bonds To Pay Debts Of County Society.
  In a county in which there is a county agricultural society indebted fifteen thousand dollars or more, and such society has purchased a fairground...
• Section 1711.19 - Bonds.
  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...
• Section 1711.20 - Levy For Payment Of Bonds.
  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...
• Section 1711.21 - Use Of Money Raised By County Taxation.
  When money has been raised by taxation by a county for the purpose of leasing lands for county fairs, erecting buildings for county fair...
• Section 1711.22 - County Aid To County And Independent Agricultural Societies.
  When a county or a county agricultural society owns or holds under a lease real estate used as a fairground, and such society has...
• Section 1711.23 - Title To Fairgrounds Vests In County On Dissolution Of Society.
  When a county agricultural society ceases to exist, in a county out of whose treasury payments have been made for real estate, or improvements...
• Section 1711.24 - Insurance On County Society's Buildings.
  The board of county commissioners of a county in which there is a county agricultural society shall insure the buildings on the grounds of...
• Section 1711.25 - Sale, Lease, Purchase, And Exchange Of Sites By County Society.
  If a county agricultural society desires to sell its site in order to purchase another, or if for any reason such site is unfit...
• Section 1711.26 - Authority To Sell Or Exchange Site.
  When the premises in the possession or under the control of a county or independent agricultural society and used by it as a site...
• Section 1711.27 - Contracts For Purchase Or Lease Of New Site By County Society.
  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...
• Section 1711.28 - Payment For New Site With County Funds Or Bonds.
  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...
• Section 1711.29 - Levy For Payment Of Bonds.
  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...
• Section 1711.30 - Election On Question Of Issuing Bonds.
  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...
• Section 1711.31 - Control Of Lands When Title Vested In County Commissioners - Division Of Moneys When Land Appropriated For Another Public Purpose.
  When the title to grounds and improvements occupied by an agricultural society is in the board of county commissioners, the control and management of...
• Section 1711.32 - Execution Of Conveyance Of Fairgrounds.
  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...
• Section 1711.33 - Encumbering Of Fairgrounds Partly Owned By County.
  When a board of county commissioners pays or has paid money out of the county treasury for the purchase of real estate as a...
• Section 1711.34 - Purchase Of Additional Fairgrounds.
  If the law makes it the duty of the board of county commissioners to purchase additional fairgrounds for the use of a county agricultural...
• Section 1711.35 - Special Constables.
  On the application of a state, county, township, or independent agricultural society, of an industrial association, or of any other association or meeting of...
• Section 1711.36 To 1711.38 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 03-16-1982
• Section 1711.39, 1711.40 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 3335.36, 3335.37.
  Effective Date: 03-16-1982
• Section 1711.50 - Amusement Ride Definitions.
  As used in sections 1711.50 to 1711.57 of the Revised Code: (A) "Amusement ride" means any mechanical, aquatic, or inflatable device, or combination of...
• Section 1711.51 - Advisory Council On Amusement Ride Safety.
  There is hereby created within the department of agriculture an advisory council on amusement ride safety to consist of the director of agriculture or...
• Section 1711.52 - Duties Of Council.
  The advisory council on amusement ride safety shall: (A) Study any subject pertaining to amusement ride safety, including administrative, engineering, and technical subjects, and...
• Section 1711.53 - Operating Permit.
  (A) (1) No person shall operate an amusement ride within the state without a permit issued by the director of agriculture under division (A)(2)...
• Section 1711.531 - Amusement Rides - Electrical Requirements - Certification.
  (A) No person shall operate an amusement ride powered from an electric light company source unless the amusement ride operates through a fusible switch,...
• Section 1711.54 - Certificate Of Insurance Evidencing Liability Insurance In Effect.
  No permit shall be issued under division (A) of section 1711.53 of the Revised Code, until the owner of the amusement ride has filed...
• Section 1711.55 - Duties Of Owner Of Amusement Ride.
  (A) The owner of an amusement ride shall maintain a current maintenance, repair, and inspection record for each amusement ride in accordance with rules...
• Section 1711.551 - Duties Of Riders.
  (A) No rider shall fail to do any of the following: (1) Heed all written warnings and directions that require a person to meet...
• Section 1711.56 - Violations.
  (A) The director of agriculture may fine any owner of an amusement ride for a violation of sections 1711.50 to 1711.57 of the Revised...
• Section 1711.57 - Exceptions.
  Sections 1711.50 to 1711.57 of the Revised Code do not apply to any of the following: (A) A private facility ; (B) A single-passenger...
• Section 1711.58 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 128th General AssemblyFile No.9, HB 1, §105.01, eff. 10/16/2009.
• Section 1711.99 - Penalty.
  (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)...

Last modified: October 10, 2016