Opinion No.

The Honorable W.J. "Bill" McCuen Secretary of State State Capitol Little Rock, Arkansas 72201

Dear Mr. McCuen:

This is in response to your request for an opinion on several questions concerning the authority of the Arkansas Ethics Commission created at A.C.A. § 7-6-217 (Cum. Supp. 1991). Your questions will be set out below and answered in the order in which they were posed.

Your first question involves the approval of the various forms required to be filed under the provisions of A.C.A. §§7-6-201—218 and 21-8-401—803 (Cum. Supp. 1991). Specifically, you note that A.C.A. § 7-6-217(h)(6) gives…