71 Pa. Stat. § 1252
It shall be the duty of the State Fair Commission to formulate plans for the establishment, organization, conduct, and management of an annual State fair, to embrace exhibits of all agricultural, industrial, and artistic products of the Commonwealth, including exhibits of all classes of farm products, embracing live stock, dairying, horticulture, all classes of manufacture, industries, mining, mechanics, and domestic arts, and such other exhibits as will best advance the interests of agriculture and the other industries of the Commonwealth.
In the furtherance of this duty, the State Fair Commission shall have power to examine sites, and, if possible, to secure a donation of a proper and convenient site for the annual State fair. It shall also have power to examine sites for purchase by the Commonwealth for the purposes of the State fair, and for this purpose to secure options. It shall prepare plans for exhibits, together with their equipment, and formulate plans for advertising, management, and exhibits. The commission shall have general power to do and undertake all preliminary work looking to the establishment of an annual State Fair. The State Fair Commission shall present a full and complete report to the General Assembly not later than the third Monday of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, together with its recommendations.
71 P.S. § 1252