Legal Opinion

Opinion No.

Arkansas Attorney General Reports

Decided August 25, 1988Published

1Opinion of the Court

The Honorable James C. Scott State Senator Route 1, Box 82-A Warren, AR 71671-9705

Dear Senator Scott:

This is in response to your request for an opinion concerning Arkansas local option laws. Specifically you have asked whether A.C.A. 3-8-305, which provides in essence that territorial subdivisions in "wet" counties may hold local option elections to eventually become "dry", and which conversely prohibits territorial subdivisions in dry counties from holding local option elections to become "wet", is unconstitutional. For the reasons that follow, it is my opinion that this provision would in…

2Cases cited10 opinions

California v. LaRueSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
Hostetter v. Idlewild Bon Voyage Liquor Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1964
State Bd. of Equalization of Cal. v. Young's Market Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1936
Raymond Edward Parks v. Ivan Allen, Jr., Mayor of the City of AtlantaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
Yarbrough v. Beardon and Phillips v. ForemanSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1944

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