WSR 97-12-028

PERMANENT RULES

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

[Filed May 30, 1997, 11:20 a.m.]

Date of Adoption: May 30, 1997.

Purpose: Amend the minimum basic allocation to community fairs from the fair fund.

Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending chapter 16-700 WAC.

Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 15.76.180.

Adopted under notice filed as WSR 97-04-077 on February 5, 1997.

Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's own Initiative: New 0, amended 1, repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.

Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.

May 30, 1997

Jim Jesernig

Director

AMENDATORY SECTION (Amending WSR 97-04-078, filed 2/5/97, effective 3/8/97)

WAC 16-700-021 Qualifications. (1) Any community fair applying for an allocation from the state fair fund shall have on display or exhibit at one place, open to the public, for at least a seven-hour period:

(a) Three or more of the following animal categories: Beef, sheep, swine, horses, dairy, goats, llamas, dogs, and poultry and rabbits (poultry and rabbits being in one category) with at least five exhibits in each category, except poultry and rabbits and dogs which shall have ten; and

(b) At least three of the following categories: Foods, clothing, horticulture, crops, floriculture, arts and crafts, with at least five exhibits in each category.

(c) Each category, to qualify as per above, shall have at least three exhibitors.

(d) Each fair shall have at least twenty-five exhibitors in total.

(2) Such community fair, whose application is accepted by the director, shall be entitled to ((a basic)) an annual allocation of up to fifty percent of the premiums and prizes paid to the participants. An allocation of up to one hundred percent reimbursement of premiums and prizes paid may be made on a merit basis to such fairs as reporting one thousand dollars or more of the value of such premiums and prizes: Provided, That any community fair that has for its purpose the education and training of youth in the matters of rural living and production agriculture and serving the 4-H and FFA members and all interested youth in its community, may qualify for an allocation with:

(a) Three or more of the following categories: Beef, sheep, swine, dairy, horses, llamas or goats; or

(b) At least two of the following categories: Beef, sheep, swine, dairy, llamas and/or goats, and at least two of the following categories: Foods, clothing, horticulture, crops, floriculture, arts and crafts, dogs, poultry and/or rabbits (poultry and/or rabbits being one category).

(c) Each category, to qualify as per above, shall have at least three exhibitors.

(d) Each fair shall have at least twenty-five exhibitors in total.

(e) All such exhibits are to be exhibited by youth exhibitors, at one place, open to the public, for at least a seven-hour period. Such fair shall be entitled to ((an)) a maximum annual allocation of ((only)) up to fifty percent reimbursement of premiums and prizes.

(3) Any area fair may not receive an allocation in excess of the total reimbursement of premiums and prizes.