Whenever any law of this state provides that the provisions of it shall apply to any city within a defined population classification, it is declared to be the intent of the General Assembly that, in the event any city to which the law was applicable at the time of the enactment of that law shall subsequently achieve a lesser or greater population than the classification prescribed by law, the law shall nevertheless thereafter be equally applicable to any such city, irrespective of the fact that the city no longer has a population within the classification prescribed by the law.
Structure Arkansas Code
Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government
Chapter 37 - Classification of Cities and Towns
§ 14-37-102. Division into classes
§ 14-37-103. Population limits
§ 14-37-104. Cities of the first class
§ 14-37-105. Cities of the second class
§ 14-37-106. Board of Municipal Corporations
§ 14-37-107. Advancement of cities and towns according to census
§ 14-37-108. Application for advancement between census periods
§ 14-37-109. Appointment of enumerators to take census
§ 14-37-110. Return of enumerators
§ 14-37-111. Reduction of city to lower grade — In general
§ 14-37-112. Incorporated town may become city of the second class
§ 14-37-113. Effect of population changes on legislation
§ 14-37-114. Reduction of city of the first class to city of the second class