An act relating to county fairs, the official text

1                            STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2   1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)

3 HOUSE BILL 1545            By: Patzkowsky

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6                            AS INTRODUCED

7   An Act relating to county fairs; creating the County

    Fair Modernization Act; requiring members of the

8   County Free Fair Association Board of Directors must

    meet attendance requirement; clarifying that members

9   who do not meet attendance requirement will cease to

    hold office; permitting members to take recommended

10  training course; providing for noncodification;

    providing for codification; and providing an

11  effective date.

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14 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

15  SECTION 1.      NEW LAW  A new section of law not to be

16 codified in the Oklahoma Statutes reads as follows:

17  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "County Fair

18 Modernization Act".

19  SECTION 2.      NEW LAW  A new section of law to be codified

20 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 15-97 of Title 2, unless there

21 is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

22  Whenever a member of the County Free Fair Association Board of

23 Directors is absent from more than fifty percent (50%) of all

24 meetings of the Board, regular and special, held within any period

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1 of four consecutive meetings, that member shall thereupon cease to

2 hold office, and that position shall be considered vacant.

3   SECTION 3.      NEW LAW  A new section of law to be codified

4 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 15-98 of Title 2, unless there

5 is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

6   Members of the County Free Fair Association Board may take a

7 recommended training course offered by Oklahoma State University's

8 extension office, delivered online, to better serve in their elected

9 position.

10  SECTION 4. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.

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