Opinion No.

The Honorable Stanley Russ State Senator Post Office Box 787 Conway, Arkansas 72032

Dear Senator Russ:

This is in response to your request for an opinion on whether Faulkner County may assign a pro rata portion of the costs of construction of a new county building to the county treasurer as an expense of that office. Your request indicates that, in order to make additional office and courtroom space available to local circuit and chancery courts, the county intends to construct a new building to house certain county officers, including the treasurer.

It appears that it would be desirable, from…