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Opinion No.

Arkansas Attorney General Reports

Decided June 15, 1993Published

1Opinion of the Court

The Honorable Jerry Hunton State Representative 14221 Greasy Valley Road Prairie Grove, AR 72753

Dear Representative Hunton:

This is in response to your request for an opinion regarding whether the City of Fayetteville, to facilitate the expansion of its municipal airport, may exercise its right of eminent domain against Greenland school property.

My research has disclosed that Arkansas municipalities are authorized to exercise the power of eminent domain against land in other municipalities in order to establish a municipal airport. The fact that the property to be condemned is already devoted…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Selle v. City of FayettevilleSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1944
  2. City of Little Rock v. SawyerSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1958
  3. Village of Schiller Park v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1962
  4. Carroll County Board of Education v. CaldwellTennessee Supreme Court · 1942
  5. Howard v. City of AtlantaSupreme Court of Georgia · 1940

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