Online Fairbooks and Entry
Forms
You will find all the
information that you require to be a part of our cattle, horse,
poultry, rabbit, horticulture, homecraft or produce events and
entries in our fair.
Please note: You will need to
have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed in order to view or to print the fairbooks.
Listed are the current
Fairbooks
for 2010:
Listed are the current Entry
Forms for 2010:
Please note new for this year,
all forms can be filled out electronically and printed to be
sent to the Pontiac
Agricultural Society:
Pontiac Agricultural Society Bylaws
The direction and administration of
the Society shall be entrusted to a President, 4 Vice-Presidents and
Directors totalling a minimum of twenty (20) and a maximum of thirty
(30). Directors shall be elected from members who have paid their
membership prior to the Annual Meeting. No money shall be paid for
services or expenses of the above mentioned officers when fulfilling
their ordinary duties, except the Secretary-Treasurer-Manager for
his or her services in the said capacity.
The Annual Meeting of the members of
the Society shall be held within ninety (90) days of the end of the
Society year, October 31, and shall be presided over by the
President or Vice-President, or in their absence a director chosen
by the meeting. A vote by ballot may be requested by 2 persons
having the right to vote. Any person may become a member of the
Society by payment to the Secretary the sum of twenty dollars or
three dollars for junior members (16 years of age and under as of
September 30th of the current year). All exhibitors must be members.
All animals or other produce entered
for competition must be bonafide property of the exhibitor or a
member of the household.
Domestic, industrial and dairy
products must have been manufactured or grown during the year by the
competitor.
Competition is open to Quebec
residents (full & part time) – Region 7 only; except horse classes
and other classes as may be specified.
When there is but one competitor in a
class, or when an animal or article exhibited is not worthy of a
prize, it shall be left to the discretion of the judge whether any
prizes shall be awarded.
Any exhibitor or person who insults a
judge or finds fault with him/her for any award made, or refuses to
accept the prize awarded, or who shall afterwards on the premises of
the Society use any contemptuous or abusive language to the judge,
shall forfeit his/her right to any prize to which he/she might be
otherwise entitled. Judges are requested to report any such
interference.
While the Directors will take every
possible precaution under the circumstances to ensure the safety of
the exhibits, yet they wish to be understood that the owners,
themselves must take the risk of exhibiting them.
All rights reserved unless written
permission granted.
Should the funds of the Society be
insufficient to pay the full amount of prizes, a certain percentage
will be deducted. Agricultural classes will receive at least 50%
payment of prize accounts.
Rules
No person shall be allowed to sell or
dispose of any fruits, foods, wares or merchandise on the Society’s
grounds, or within three hundred yards thereof without having
obtained the consent of the officers of the Society, nor shall any
gambling or game of chance be allowed on the Society’s grounds or
within a half mile thereof.
The Pontiac Agricultural Society will
not be held responsible for any accidents occurring to its patrons
on the fair grounds during the Fair or at any other time.
Should any dispute or question arise
not provided for in the rules and regulations, the decision of the
Board of Directors shall be final.
All exhibitors must complete an entry
form.
If an entry form is incomplete, or not
submitted, the allotted prize money will not be paid.
Membership fee for the following year
will be deducted from prize money cheque where applicable.
Prize money amounting to less than
$5.00 per member shall not be mailed out, but may be picked up by
the member at Pontiac Agricultural Society’s office during regular
office hours from October 15 to December 1 of the current year.
The Board of Directors reserves the
right to correct any errors in this book.
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