Opinion No.

Ms. Deborah Suttlar, Vice Chairperson Arkansas Post Prison Transfer Board P.O. Box 34085 Little Rock, AR 72203

Dear Ms. Suttlar:

This is in response to your request for an opinion regarding Act 547 (now codified at A.C.A. § 16-93-201 et seq.) and its limitation of the terms served by members of the Post Prison Transfer Board. You have posed the following specific question:

[C]an a member whose term expires in 1995 be appointed to serve the remainder of the position Mike Gaines held as Chairman, since this appointment will not be a full term?

You have stated that Chairman Gaines' term expires in…