Opinion No.

The Honorable Paul R. Bosson Prosecuting Attorney Eighteenth Judicial Circuit East 501 Ouachita Avenue Hot Springs, Arkansas 71901

Dear Mr. Bosson:

This is in response to your request for an opinion concerning the payment of advertising costs incurred by a circuit/chancery clerk who was appointed as commissioner to sell property for the chancery court. Specifically, you indicate that the predecessor in office of the current circuit/chancery clerk incurred approximately three thousand dollars in advertising costs (advertising the sale of property) while acting in his capacity as commissioner…