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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
HOUSE BILL 1545 By: Patzkowsky
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to county fairs; creating the County
Fair Modernization Act; requiring members of the
County Free Fair Association Bo ard of Directors must
meet attendance requirement; clarifying that members
who do not meet attendance requirement will cease to
hold office; permitting members to take recommended
training course; providing for noncodification;
providing for codification; and providing an
effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF TH E STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law not to be
codified in the Oklahoma Statutes reads as follows:
This act shall be known and may be cited as the "County Fair
Modernization Act".
SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 15 -97 of Title 2, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
Whenever a member of the County Free Fair Association Board of
Directors is absent from more than fifty percent (50%) of all
meetings of the Board, regular and special, held within any period
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of four consecutive meetings, that member shall thereupon cease to
hold office, and that position shall be considered vacant.
SECTION 3. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 15 -98 of Title 2, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as fol lows:
Members of the County Free Fair Association Board may take a
recommended training course offered by Oklahoma State University 's
extension office, delivered online, to better serve in their elected
position.
SECTION 4. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
60-1-10275 MJ 01/14/25