O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 2-2-8 (2019)

Educational exhibits promoting state resources at agricultural fairs authorized

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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(a) The Commissioner is authorized to advertise and promote the agricultural resources of this state through the use of educational exhibits at agricultural fairs. When he so desires, the Commissioner is authorized to establish such exhibits in cooperation with the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences of the University of Georgia, the Cooperative Extension Service of the University of Georgia, and other departments of this state.

(b) For an event to qualify as an agricultural fair, the organization sponsoring such fair must:

(1) Be able to show that at least 10 percent of the total receipts thereof are paid out in the form of premiums, scholarships, or agricultural programs; and

(2) Be a nonprofit organization, spending the profits of the fair on the enterprise or paying them out in the form of premiums, scholarships, or educational programs.

(c) Transportation costs, space rental, and utility costs at any agricultural fair shall be borne by the organization sponsoring such fair.

(d) Nothing in this Code section shall be construed to prohibit governmental agencies from participating in or exhibiting the resources of this state at any agricultural fair.

History

Ga. L. 1958, p. 197, §§ 1-3; Ga. L. 1995, p. 10, § 2.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 3 Am. Jur. 2d, Agriculture, §§ 19 et seq, 35 et seq. ALR. - Exemption from taxation of

property of agricultural fair society or association, 89 A.L.R.2d 1104.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 2018–2018 · leading case: Cotton Pickin' Fairs, Inc. v. Town of Gay, 816 S.E.2d 160 (Ga. Ct. App. 2018).

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Cotton Pickin' Fairs, Inc. v. Town of Gay, 816 S.E.2d 160 (Ga. Ct. App. 2018). · cites it 4× “The 1911 Society was organized in an attempt to meet the requirements of an agricultural fair sponsor under OCGA § 2-2-8. After the exhibitors for each Fair are selected, Cotton Pickin' Fairs assigns all exhibitor contracts to The 1911 Society.”

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