A. The board of directors is hereby given the power and authority to provide for and collect the following fees and charges:

1. A reasonable general admission fee per person, except that no admission charges or fees shall be exacted from persons exhibiting items such as natural resources or livestock;

2. A reasonable fee for merchants display space and concessions;

3. A reasonable fee as rental for barns, pens and other buildings;

4. A reasonable entrance fee and stall rent sufficient to maintain stalls in a clean and sanitary condition and for light, fuel and water service;

5. A reasonable charge for parking cars or other vehicles;

6. A reasonable entrance fee to persons desiring to enter into competition in exhibitions of speed and athletic skill; and

7. A reasonable admission fee to persons desiring to enter the enclosure in which such exhibitions are held to witness the exhibitions.

B. During the agricultural and industrial exposition and fair, a day may be set apart for school children in cities and towns and a day for school children in rural communities to allow such children to be admitted free into the agricultural and industrial exposition and fair.

C. All fees and charges authorized by this section to be collected shall be used exclusively for premiums and the operating and conducting of the agricultural and industrial exposition and fair and maintenance and repair of buildings and upkeep of the grounds, and construction of new buildings as needed.

Added by Laws 1947, p. 5, § 10. Amended by Laws 2001, c. 146, § 227, emerg. eff. April 30, 2001. Renumbered from § 131.10 of this title by Laws 2001, c. 146, § 270, emerg. eff. April 30, 2001.