11-258. County fair fund; district fairs;
operation of fair by corporation; county and state
appropriations
A. The board may appropriate each year from the general fund a sum, which shall be
known as a county fair fund, as follows:
1. In counties having a census of two hundred thousand or more as determined by the
latest preceding federal decennial census, not more than one hundred thousand dollars.
2. In counties having a census of more than twenty-five thousand but less than two
hundred thousand as determined by the latest preceding federal decennial census, not more
than twenty-five thousand dollars.
3. In counties having a census of less than twenty-five thousand as determined by
the latest preceding federal decennial census, not more than fifteen thousand dollars.
The board may expend the money in aid of a county or district fair, or to make an exhibit
of the county's resources at the state fair. A district fair is one at which the boards
of two or more counties shall, by resolution entered upon their minutes, invite the
people of their respective counties to exhibit the resources of the county.
B. The money shall not be expended in aid of a fair conducted under the auspices of
any corporation, unless the stockholders of the corporation shall, by resolution entered
upon its minutes, provide that no dividends shall ever be paid upon its stock, and that
in the event of the dissolution of the corporation all money appropriated and expended by
any county in aid of the fair shall be repaid before any assets of the corporation shall
be distributed to its stockholders.
C. To encourage county and district fairs, there shall be paid from the general
fund of the state and from the appropriation for the state fair, a sum of not exceeding
one thousand dollars in any one year for any one county having a county or district fair
in such year. A county desiring to claim the benefits of this section shall certify to
the Arizona exposition and state fair board the fact that a county or district fair is
being held in the county during the year together with a statement of the amount
appropriated by the county for the current year for such fair, and upon order therefor by
the Arizona exposition and state fair board, the director of the department of
administration shall draw his warrant in favor of the county in the amount appropriated
by the county, not exceeding one thousand dollars.
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