City of Maumelle v. Maumelle Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police

Robert L. Brown, Justice.

The appellant, City of Maumelle, Arkansas, appeals from an order dismissing its complaint to remove a proposed city ordinance from the election ballot in Maumelle. The City claims on appeal that the proposed ordinance is unconstitutional and that the ballot title was misleading. We affirm the dismissal order due to a flagrantly deficient abstract.

In 1996, appellee Maumelle Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police drafted and circulated an initiative petition containing a proposed city ordinance that would, among other things, require the City to raise and maintain the…