Fifty or more persons, who are residents of a district, may form an association to be known as and designated as the ____ District Agricultural Association, for the following purposes:
(a) Holding fairs, expositions and exhibitions for the purpose of exhibiting all of the industries and industrial enterprises, resources and products of every kind or nature of the state with a view toward improving, exploiting, encouraging, and stimulating them.
(b) Constructing, maintaining, and operating recreational and cultural facilities of general public interest.
(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)