The board of directors is hereby given the power and authority to provide for and collect the following fees and charges: A reasonable general admission fee per person, except that no admission charges or fees shall be exacted from persons exhibiting natural resources, livestock, etc.; a reasonable fee for merchants display space and concessions; a reasonable fee as rental for barns, pens and other buildings and a reasonable entrance fee and stall rent sufficient to maintain stalls in a clean and sanitary condition and for light, fuel and water service, and a reasonable charge for parking cars or other vehicles, and provided further that in addition to the above charges said board of directors shall have the right to charge a reasonable entrance fee to persons desiring to enter into competition in exhibitions of speed and athletic skill and a reasonable admission fee to persons desiring to enter the enclosure in which such exhibitions are held to witness the same; provided, however, during said agricultural and industrial exposition and fair, a day may be set apart for school children in cities and towns and a day for school children in rural communities and said school children on such days shall be admitted free into such agricultural and industrial exposition and fair. All fees and charges herein authorized to be collected shall be used exclusively for premiums and the operating and conducting of such agricultural and industrial exposition and fair and maintenance and repair of buildings and upkeep of the grounds, and construction of new buildings as needed.

Laws 1947, SB 104, p. 5, § 10.