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Tit. VIII, Ch. 2. COUNTY AND DISTRICT PAIRS. §§ 1636-a9-1637.
17 ordinance or resolution of any city or town shall in any way impair
18 the authority of the society, but it shall have sole and exclusive control
19 over and management thereof.
[C, '73, § 1116; C, '97, § 1664; 39 G. A., ch. 264, § 9.]
SEC. 1636-a9. Fraudulent entries of horses.
1 No person, partnership, company or corporation shall knowingly
2 enter or cause to be entered any horse of any age or sex under an
3 assumed name, or out of its proper class, to compete for any purse,
4 prize, premium, stake or sweepstake offered or given by any agricul-
5 tural or other society, association, person or persons in the state, or
6 drive any such horse under an assumed name, or out of its proper class,
7 where such prize, purse, premium, stake or sweepstake is to be decided
8 by a contest of speed.
[C, '97, § 1665; 39 G. A., ch. 264, § 10.]
SEC. 1636-alO. Violations—penalty.
1 Any person convicted of a violation of the preceding section shall
2 be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a period of not more than three
3 years, or in the county jail for not mo.re than one year, and be fined in
4 a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.
[C., '97, § 1666; 39 G. A., ch. 264, § 11.]
SEC. 1636-all. Entry under changed name.
1 The name of any horse for the purpose of entry for competition
2 in any contest of speed, shall not be changed after having once con-
3 tested for a prize, purse, premium, stake or sweepstake, except as
4 provided by the code of printed rules of the society or association under
5 which the contest is advertised to be conducted, unless the former name
6 is given.
[C, '97, § 1667 ; 39 G. A., ch. 264, § 12.]
SEC. 1636-al2. Class determined.
1 The class to which a horse belongs for the purpose of an entry in
2 any contest of speed, as provided by the printed rules of the society or
3 association under which such contest is to be made, shall be determined
4 by the public record of said horse in any such former contest.
[C, '97, § 1668 ; 39 G. A., ch. 264, § 13.]
SEC. 1637. County aid to county or district fairs—tax authorized.
1 When a district or county agricultural society or fair shall have
2 procured in fee simple, land for fair grounds, not less than ten acres
3 in extent, or shall hold and occupy such amount of land by virtue of
4 a lease, and own and have thereon buildings and improvements worth
5 not less than two thousand dollars, the board of supervisors of the
6 county wherein such agricultural society or fair is located, may appro-
7 priate and pay to it a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars for every
8 thousand inhabitants in the county, to be expended by it in fitting up
9 or purchasing such fair grounds, but for no other purpose, but the
10 aggregate amount so appropriated shall not exceed one thousand dol-
11 lars to any one society or fair in any one year.