Mears v. City of Little Rock

Carleton Harris, Chief Justice.

This litigation refers to the election of a Board of Directors of a “Management Form of City Government”. The 1973 General Assembly of the State of Arkansas enacted legislation which became Act 168 of 1973, this act amending Ark. Stat. Ann. § 19-704 (Repl. 1968). The principal section amended was subsection (c). That section, before the amendment, read as follows:

“(c) Except in the instances where Directors are elected at special elections as provided in Sections 2 (§ 19-702) and 13 (§ 19-713) of this Act, the members of the Board of Directors shall be elected…