Legal Opinion

Opinion No.

Arkansas Attorney General Reports

Decided February 28, 2000Published

1Opinion of the Court

The Honorable Bill Walters State Senator P.O. Box 280 Greenwood, AR 72936-0280

Dear Senator Walters:

I am writing in response to your request for my opinion on the following questions:

1. Is the temporary and occasional barricading of a public alley by a city permissible under Arkansas law if the blocking of the road is designed to block vehicle traffic only and not pedestrian traffic?

2. May the city barricade the alley on a permanent basis as it relates to vehicular traffic but leaving it as a thoroughfare for pedestrian traffic?

The city in question is Ozark, which is categorized as a city of…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. Taylor v. ArmstrongSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1863
  2. Hot Springs R. R. v. WilliamsonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1885
  3. Packet Co. v. SorrelsSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1887
  4. City of Fort Smith v. Housing Authority of Fort SmithSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1974
  5. Flake v. Thompson, Inc.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1970

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