KRS 246.260: State aid for promotion of sheep industry.

(1) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires:

(a) "Department" means the department of agriculture;

(b) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of agriculture;

(c) "Show, exhibition and sale" shall not include those held as a part of or in

connection with any county or other local fair.

(2) It shall be the duty of the department to aid, encourage, foster and promote the

development and improvement of the sheep industry in Kentucky. To that end, it

shall be the duty of the department to promote, and assist in the promotion of shows

and sales of sheep in Kentucky with the object and purpose of maintaining

Kentucky's national recognition as a sheep state for breeding, producing, raising,

exhibition, showing and sale of sheep and for said purpose s there hereby is

appropriated out of the general fund to the department the sum of three thousand

dollars ($3,000) for each of the fiscal years 1951-1952 and 1952-1953.

(3) From the appropriation made in subsection (2) of this section, one thousand dollar s

($1,000) shall be used and applied in each of said fiscal years for the payment of

premiums for district shows and sales which may be held in Kentucky in each of the

fiscal years, 1951-1952 and 1952-1953 which is open on equal terms and conditions

to all Kentucky 4 -H club members with a sheep project. One thousand dollars

($1,000) shall be used and applied in each fiscal year for the payment of premiums

for district shows and sales which may be held in Kentucky in each of the fiscal

years, 1951-1952 and 1952-1953 which is open on equal terms and conditions to all

Kentucky future farmer members with a sheep project. One thousand dollars

($1,000) shall be used and applied in each of the fiscal years for the payment of

premiums for district shows and sales which may be held in Kentucky in each of the

fiscal years, 1951-1952 and 1952-1953 which is open on equal terms and conditions

to all Kentucky adult sheep raisers in Kentucky. No Kentucky adult sheep raiser

may show, exhibit or sell in more than one district show.

(4) Any show, exhibition and sale of sheep to be eligible to receive the aforesaid

appropriations must provide that the entries in all classes must be open upon equal

terms to all breeders of such sheep in Kentucky. The commissioner shall determine

with respect to the aforesaid sheep which shows, exhibitions and sales in each year

shall receive assistance and, in making such determination, he may consider such

shows, exhibitions and sales as may have been held in Kentucky in any previous

year and in any previous two (2) year period.