Chapter 6.30
COUNTY FAIR
Sections:
6.30.010 Former Fair Association assets conveyed to county – Purpose.
6.30.030 Name changed to Cowlitz County Fair.
Cross-references:
Chapter 36.37 RCW: County fairs authorized.
Chapter 15.76 RCW: State allocations to agricultural fairs.
RCW 16.40.120: Health certificates required for exhibit animals.
Chapter 6.31 CCC: Fair Board rules.
6.30.010 Former Fair Association assets conveyed to county – Purpose.
There has been in existence in Cowlitz County, a nonprofit corporation known as the Cowlitz Valley Fair Association, duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Washington, for the purpose of promoting a county fair in Cowlitz County. The Cowlitz Valley Fair Association has concluded that it is in the best interests of the promotion of a fair that the same be done by the municipal corporation of Cowlitz County, for the reason that the county can appropriate funds and can share in certain distributive funds from the State of Washington, which make it more feasible and advisable that a fair be financed and promoted in such a manner rather than by the Cowlitz Valley Fair Association, a nonprofit corporation.
In pursuance thereof, the Cowlitz Valley Fair Association has voluntarily dissolved itself by due and regular procedure with authority vested in the trustees by the members’ request for dissolution, for the trustees to turn the remaining assets of the corporation over to Cowlitz County, and in pursuance thereof the Cowlitz Valley Fair Association, through its officers and trustees in dissolution, has heretofore on the 21st day of November, 1946, conveyed the real estate owned by said corporation in fee, to-wit:
Beginning at the intersection of the Easterly right-of-way line of the Northern Pacific Railroad right-of-way with the Southerly line of Washington Street as shown by the plat of West Kelso on file in the office of the County Auditor of Cowlitz County, Washington; thence South 15 deg. 02 min. West along the Easterly line of the Northern Pacific Railroad right-of-way 700 ft. to the true point of beginning of this description; thence continuing South 15 deg. 02 min. West along said Easterly right-of-way of the Northern Pacific Railroad 390 ft.; thence North 74 deg. 58 min. West 200 ft. to the Westerly right-of way of the Northern Pacific Railroad; thence North 15 deg. 02 min. East along said Westerly right-of-way 390 ft.; thence South 74 deg. 58 min. East 200 ft. to the place of beginning, containing 1.79 acres, more or less:
by quit claim deed, and that the real estate being purchased by the said corporation on contract from the Longview Company, as agents for the Bond-holder’s Protective Committee, to wit:
Tax No. 10 of Gross Addition and Longview Out Lot Tax No. 10, as more fully described on Contract #926:
by assignment of the corporation interests in said contract, and has tendered any and all remaining assets of the corporation, and its cash, to the county, in the sum of $3,624.80.
It appears to this Board to be in the best interests of Cowlitz County that said properties of the Cowlitz Valley Fair Association, be accepted by the county, and that the county assume responsibility for financing and promoting the fair in Cowlitz County. [Res. dated 11-26-46, preamble.]
6.30.020 Assets accepted.
Cowlitz County accepts the assets of the Cowlitz Valley Fair Association, as described in CCC 6.30.010, assumes the balance for the real estate contract and will take whatever steps are reasonably necessary and expedient in the financing and promoting of the fair of Cowlitz County. [Res. dated 11-26-46.]
6.30.030 Name changed to Cowlitz County Fair.
For some years past, the annual agricultural fair held in the City of Longview, Cowlitz County, Washington, has been called the Columbia Empire Fair. The Fair Board has acted to change the name of the fair to the Cowlitz County Fair. It appears to this Board that the name Cowlitz County Fair is a better designation of the nature and scope of the fair, therefore the name of the Columbia Empire Fair is changed to Cowlitz County Fair and all funds and records shall carry this name. [Res. 1899, 1-2-70.]