N.Y. Agriculture & Markets Law § 31-b: State fair

§ 31-b. State fair. It shall be the duty of the department to hold a

state fair to be known as the New York state fair at such times as it

may deem proper, and between January first and February fifteenth in

each calendar year to publish the time for holding said fair in such

year. If such fair be held on the first Monday of September, known as

labor day, the department shall designate such day as "organized labor

day." It shall not be lawful for any corporation, association or

individual to hold or conduct any trotting or pacing race or races

during the week in which the New York state fair is held, except upon

half-mile tracks, and except at the fairs held by agricultural societies

which have received moneys from the state, and no corporation,

association or individual holding such races during said week shall be

entitled to any of the benefits conferred by article twenty of the

membership corporations law, or by any general or special law. The

department may make, alter, suspend or repeal needed rules relating to

such fair, including the times and duration thereof, the terms and

conditions of entries and admissions, exhibits, sale of privileges,

payments of premiums, and any other matters which it may deem proper in

connection with such fair. It shall furnish to each person who, on the

seventeenth day of January, nineteen hundred, was a life member of the

state agricultural society, a free admission to the fair ground during

the fair of each year during the life of such member.