(a) The Attorney General shall prepare a concise abstract of the contents of each statewide initiative and referendum measure proposed under Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 7, and he or she shall transmit it to the Secretary of State not less than twenty (20) days before the election.
(b) Not less than eighteen (18) days before the election, the Secretary of State shall transmit a certified copy of the abstract to the county boards of election commissioners, who shall cause copies to be printed and posted conspicuously at all polling places in the county for the information of the voters.
(c) The cost of printing copies of the abstracts shall be borne by the counties as a regular expense of the election.
Structure Arkansas Code
Chapter 9 - Initiatives, Referenda, and Constitutional Amendments
Subchapter 1 - Petition and Election Procedure
§ 7-9-102. Duties of election officers — Penalty for failure to perform
§ 7-9-103. Signing of petition — Penalty for falsification — Notice of suspected forgery
§ 7-9-104. Form of initiative petition — Sufficiency of signatures
§ 7-9-105. Form of referendum petition — Sufficiency of signatures
§ 7-9-106. Required attachments to petitions
§ 7-9-107. Filing of original draft before circulation
§ 7-9-108. Procedure for circulation of petition
§ 7-9-109. Form of verification — Penalty for false statement
§ 7-9-110. Designation of number and popular name
§ 7-9-111. Determination of sufficiency of petition — Corrections
§ 7-9-113. Publication of notice
§ 7-9-114. Abstract of proposed measure
§ 7-9-115. Furnishing ballot title and popular name to election commissioners
§ 7-9-116. Captions and designations of numbered issues
§ 7-9-118. Failure to place proposal on ballot — Manner of voting
§ 7-9-119. Counting, canvass, and return of votes — Proclamation of result — Effective date
§ 7-9-120. Printing of approved measures with general laws — Certification of city ordinances
§ 7-9-121. Contest of returns and certification
§ 7-9-122. Adoption of conflicting measures
§ 7-9-123. Preservation of records
§ 7-9-124. Voter registration signature imaging system — Creation of fund
§ 7-9-125. Definition — Prohibition of profit — Penalties — Freedom of information