Initiative and referendum
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Moorman v. Priest (1992)
Most recently applied in Pritchett v. Spicer (March 2017)
Acts 1921, No. 99, § 17; Pope's Dig., § 10105; Acts 1957, No. 8, § 11; A.S.A. 1947, § 19-717; Acts 2015, No. 1093, § 1.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) The initiative and referendum laws of this state are applicable to cities reorganized under this chapter.
(2) The number of signatures required upon any petition shall be computed upon the highest vote cast at the preceding general election for any position on the board of directors of the municipality.
(3) Except for a municipal referendum petition concerning a municipal bond, a sponsor shall be given sixty (60) days to circulate a municipal referendum petition.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.