Section 160.04. Junior fair division; general.

 

(1)  In the junior fair division, the department may pay state aid on prizes offered to exhibitors who are under 20 years of age on January 1 of the current fair year. A county or district fair board may establish subgroups within a junior fair entry class based on the exhibitor's grade in school. The department may not pay state aid on prizes for club parades, club floats, song contests, or a project which is not an exhibit or demonstration at the fair.

(2)  All exhibitors in the junior fair division shall be members of 4-H, FFA, a scouting program, a breed group, or another recognized youth organization under adult leadership that has an education program appropriate to that organization and is approved by the fair board.

(3)  Exhibits in the junior fair shall be the product of the exhibitor's own labor. An exhibit may include a study project, merit project or other special project, a skill area, or a supervised occupational experience in which the exhibitor is regularly enrolled, provided that the fair board approves the project, skill area, or supervised occupational experience as an exhibit.

(4)  State aid may not be used to award more than one premium to any exhibitor in any department in the junior fair division, except that:

(a) A premium may be awarded to each member of a group that collectively owns and enters a livestock exhibit in departments one to 5 of subch. IV .

(b) An exhibitor may receive a separate premium for showmanship where authorized under subch. IV .

(c) An exhibitor may receive more than one premium in a department for which additional premiums are specifically authorized under subch. IV .

(5)  Under subch. IV , within each of the junior fair departments 9, 10, 13 to 16, 18, and 20 to 29, a fair board may establish one or more entry classes for self-determined projects that are related to that department. The fair board may establish class entry criteria, including student grade level criteria. Entry classes are open to 4-H members enrolled in a designated 4-H project or an alternative project that follows 4-H project guidelines, and to members of other youth organizations that do equivalent work and apply equivalent guidelines. Exhibits may be judged using the regular or Danish judging system. For each entry class, a fair board may pay first-place to fourth-place premiums at any of the following levels designated by the board:

(a) Premium level one: $2.00, $1.75, $1.50, $1.25.

(b) Premium level 2: $2.50, $2.25, $2.00, $1.75.

(c) Premium level 3: $3.00, $2.75, $2.50, $2.25.

(6)  If 16 or more animals, items or articles are entered in any junior fair class, the class may be divided into 2 or more approximately equal groups according to weight, age or other identifying characteristic and each group judged as a class.

(7)  Special educational exhibits may [be] established if the proposal is presented to the Wisconsin association of fairs before October 1 of the year preceding its proposed establishment and the exhibit is approved by the department.

(8)  Within any junior fair department under subch. IV , a county or district fair may establish special classes where none are specified under subch. IV . Special classes may include classes for grade and crossbred females in the beef, swine, sheep and horse departments. Premiums for special classes created under this subsection shall be equal to premiums for comparable classes established in the same department under subch. IV .

Cr. Register, November, 1990, No. 419 , eff. 12-1-90; am. (8), Register, July, 1995, No. 475 , eff. 8-1-95; am. (1), Register, November, 2000, No. 539 , eff. 12-1-00; reprinted to correct printing error in (1), Register, June, 2001, No. 546 ; CR 11-037 : am. (title), (2), (3), r. and recr. (4), renum. (5) to be 160.80 (4) and am., cr. (5) Register April 2012 No. 676 , eff. 5-1-12.