Bill Title: To revise the laws governing county and independent agricultural societies regarding audits conducted by the Auditor of State and horse races conducted by a society.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-8)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-04-15 - To Agriculture
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As Passed by the House
128th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2009-2010 |
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Cosponsors:
Representatives Murray, Domenick, Letson, Evans, Sayre, Book, Hackett, Yuko, Okey, Boose, Derickson, Zehringer, Bubp, Chandler, Daniels, DeBose, Garland, Garrison, Luckie, Newcomb, Phillips, Pryor, Wagner
A BILL
| To amend sections 117.10 and 1711.05 and to enact | 1 |
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section 3769.0811 of the Revised Code to revise | 2 |
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the laws governing county and independent | 3 |
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agricultural societies regarding audits conducted | 4 |
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by the Auditor of State and horse races conducted | 5 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That sections 117.10 and 1711.05 be amended and | 7 |
section 3769.0811 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as | 8 |
follows: | 9 |
Sec. 117.10. The auditor of state shall audit all public | 10 |
offices as provided in this chapter. The auditor of state also may | 11 |
audit the accounts of private institutions, associations, boards, | 12 |
and corporations receiving public money for their use and may | 13 |
require of them annual reports in such form as the auditor of | 14 |
state prescribes. However, the auditor of state shall audit only | 15 |
public money received from a state agency or a board of county | 16 |
commissioners, and shall not audit other money raised or received, | 17 |
by a county agricultural society organized under section 1711.01 | 18 |
of the Revised Code or an independent agricultural society | 19 |
organized under section 1711.02 of the Revised Code. The auditor | 20 |
of state shall not charge more than three thousand dollars for an | 21 |
audit of a county or independent agricultural society. | 22 |
If the auditor of state performs or contracts for the | 23 |
performance of an audit, including a special audit, of the public | 24 |
employees retirement system, school employees retirement system, | 25 |
state teachers retirement system, state highway patrol retirement | 26 |
system, or Ohio police and fire pension fund, the auditor of state | 27 |
shall make a timely report of the results of the audit to the Ohio | 28 |
retirement study council. | 29 |
The auditor of state may audit the accounts of any provider | 30 |
as defined in section 5111.06 of the Revised Code. | 31 |
If a public office has been audited by an agency of the | 32 |
United States government, the auditor of state may, if satisfied | 33 |
that the federal audit has been conducted according to principles | 34 |
and procedures not contrary to those of the auditor of state, use | 35 |
and adopt the federal audit and report in lieu of an audit by the | 36 |
auditor of state's own office. | 37 |
Within thirty days after the creation or dissolution or the | 38 |
winding up of the affairs of any public office, that public office | 39 |
shall notify the auditor of state in writing that this action has | 40 |
occurred. | 41 |
Sec. 1711.05. Every county agricultural society and every | 42 |
independent agricultural society annually shall publish an | 43 |
abstract of its treasurer's account in a newspaper of the county | 44 |
or on the web page of the society and make a report of its | 45 |
proceedings during the year. It shall also make, in accordance | 46 |
with the rules of the department of agriculture, a synopsis of its | 47 |
awards for improvement in agriculture and in household | 48 |
manufactures and forward suchthe synopsis to the director of | 49 |
agriculture at or before the annual meeting of the directors of | 50 |
the society with the director of agriculture, as provided for in | 51 |
section 901.06 of the Revised Code. No payment after suchthat | 52 |
date shall be made from the county treasury to suchthe society | 53 |
unless a certificate from the director is presented to the county | 54 |
auditor showing that such reports have been made. | 55 |
Sec. 3769.0811. (A) Horse races that are conducted by a | 56 |
county agricultural society or independent agricultural society in | 57 |
accordance with section 3769.082 of the Revised Code shall be | 58 |
conducted at the fairgrounds of the sponsoring agricultural | 59 |
society. If the horse races cannot be contested due to unfavorable | 60 |
weather or another unavoidable cause, the races may be transferred | 61 |
to a suitable track with the approval of the director of | 62 |
agriculture. When such a race cannot be conducted, the | 63 |
agricultural society shall allocate the remaining money in a | 64 |
manner established by the director in rules adopted under division | 65 |
(B) of this section notwithstanding division (G) of section | 66 |
3769.082 of the Revised Code. | 67 |
(B) The director shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter | 68 |
119. of the Revised Code that establish the manner in which money | 69 |
may be allocated under division (A) of this section. | 70 |
Section 2. That existing sections 117.10 and 1711.05 of the | 71 |
Revised Code are hereby repealed. | 72 |