Arkansas Code
Title 7 - Elections
Chapter 9 - Initiatives, Referenda, and Constitutional Amendments

Subchapter 1 - Petition and Election Procedure

§ 7-9-101. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Act” means an act...

§ 7-9-102. Duties of election officers — Penalty for failure to perform - (a) (1) The duties imposed by this act upon members...

§ 7-9-103. Signing of petition — Penalty for falsification — Notice of suspected forgery - (a) (1) (A) A person who is a registered voter...

§ 7-9-104. Form of initiative petition — Sufficiency of signatures - (a) The petition for an ordinance, act, or amendment proposed...

§ 7-9-105. Form of referendum petition — Sufficiency of signatures - (a) The petition and order of referendum for an ordinance...

§ 7-9-106. Required attachments to petitions - (a) To every petition for the initiative shall be attached...

§ 7-9-107. Filing of original draft before circulation - (a) Before any initiative petition or referendum petition ordering a...

§ 7-9-108. Procedure for circulation of petition - (a) Each initiative or referendum petition ordering a vote upon...

§ 7-9-109. Form of verification — Penalty for false statement - (a) Each petition containing signatures shall be verified in substantially...

§ 7-9-110. Designation of number and popular name - (a) The popular name of each state measure shall be...

§ 7-9-111. Determination of sufficiency of petition — Corrections - (a) The Secretary of State shall ascertain and declare the...

§ 7-9-112. Right of review - (a) If the Secretary of State determines that the signatures...

§ 7-9-113. Publication of notice - (a) (1) The Secretary of State shall be charged with...

§ 7-9-114. Abstract of proposed measure - (a) The Attorney General shall prepare a concise abstract of...

§ 7-9-115. Furnishing ballot title and popular name to election commissioners - Not less than eighteen (18) days before the election, the...

§ 7-9-116. Captions and designations of numbered issues - (a) The Secretary of State shall fix and declare the...

§ 7-9-117. Ballot form - (a) It shall be the duty of the county board...

§ 7-9-118. Failure to place proposal on ballot — Manner of voting - If any election board shall fail or refuse to submit...

§ 7-9-119. Counting, canvass, and return of votes — Proclamation of result — Effective date - (a) The vote on each measure shall be counted, tabulated,...

§ 7-9-120. Printing of approved measures with general laws — Certification of city ordinances - (a) The Secretary of State shall cause every measure approved...

§ 7-9-121. Contest of returns and certification - (a) The right to contest the returns and certification of...

§ 7-9-122. Adoption of conflicting measures - If two (2) or more conflicting measures shall be approved...

§ 7-9-123. Preservation of records - All petitions, notices, certificates, or other documentary evidence of procedural...

§ 7-9-124. Voter registration signature imaging system — Creation of fund - (a) There is hereby established in the office of the...

§ 7-9-125. Definition — Prohibition of profit — Penalties — Freedom of information - (a) As used in this section, “property” means both real...

§ 7-9-126. Count of signatures - (a) Upon the initial filing of an initiative petition or...

Subchapter 2 - Legislative Proposal of Constitutional Amendments

§ 7-9-201. Proposal and vote - Amendments to the Arkansas Constitution shall be proposed in either...

§ 7-9-202. Enrollment and filing - When any joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Arkansas...

§ 7-9-203. Entry on journals - The proposed amendment shall be entered on the journals of...

§ 7-9-204. Ballot titles and popular names of constitutional amendments proposed by the legislature - The General Assembly may designate in the joint resolution proposing...

§ 7-9-205. Challenges to constitutional amendments proposed by the General Assembly - If the General Assembly passes a joint resolution proposing an...

Subchapter 3 - Constitutional Conventions

§ 7-9-301. Calling constitutional convention — Majority vote - (a) When a majority of the qualified electors of this...

§ 7-9-302. Delegate qualifications — Election date - (a) At the same general election at which a vote...

§ 7-9-303. Apportionment of delegates — Vacancies - (a) The basis for representation in any constitutional convention called...

§ 7-9-304. Nominating petitions - (a) (1) Every person desiring to be elected as a...

§ 7-9-305. Election and certification of delegates - (a) The county board of election commissioners shall include on...

§ 7-9-306. Organizational meeting — Plenary meeting - (a) Whenever a majority of the electors vote affirmatively to...

§ 7-9-307. Meeting procedures - (a) A majority of the delegates shall constitute a quorum,...

§ 7-9-308. Duration of constitutional convention — Certification of draft constitution — Report - (a) The constitutional convention shall remain in session as long...

§ 7-9-309. Method of publication - (a) Publication of a proposed new constitution by a constitutional...

§ 7-9-310. Submission of proposed constitution to electors - (a) The constitutional convention may submit a new constitution as...

§ 7-9-311. Proposal of amendments to present constitution - The constitutional convention, if it shall not propose a new...

§ 7-9-312. Expenses - (a) The appropriation to defray the expenses of any constitutional...

Subchapter 4 - Disclosure for Matters Referred to Voters

§ 7-9-401. Title - This subchapter shall be known as the “Disclosure Act for...

§ 7-9-402. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Ballot question” means a...

§ 7-9-403. Penalty - Upon conviction, any person who knowingly fails to comply with...

§ 7-9-404. Filing deadlines - (a) (1) (A) A ballot question committee or a legislative...

§ 7-9-405. Contributions and expenditures limited - (a) No ballot question committee or legislative question committee shall...

§ 7-9-406. Financial reports — Requirement - (a) A ballot question committee or legislative question committee that...

§ 7-9-407. Financial report — Information - A financial report of a ballot question committee, a legislative...

§ 7-9-408. Financial reports — Verification - The financial reports identified in § 7-9-407 shall be verified...

§ 7-9-409. Financial reports — Time to file — Late fee - (a) (1) The first financial reports shall be filed no...

§ 7-9-410. Public inspection — Record retention - (a) All statements of organization and financial reports required by...

§ 7-9-411. Enforcement - The Arkansas Ethics Commission shall have the same power and...

§ 7-9-415. Scope - Nothing in this subchapter may limit, waive, or abrogate the...

Subchapter 6 - Paid Canvassers

§ 7-9-601. Hiring and training of paid canvassers — Definition - (a) (1) A person shall not provide money or anything...