Wells v. Clinton

George Rose Smith, Justice.

This is a taxpayers’ suit against the Governor and other State officers for a declaratory j udgment declaring the Public Facilities Finance Act of 1983 to be unconstitutional as an unlawful delegation of legislative authority. Act 458 of 1983; Ark. Stat. Ann., Title 13, Ch. 26 (Supp. 1983). Essentially the plaintiffs contend that the legislature cannot authorize the construction of any public building without specifically describing the building and specifying exactly where it is to be built. We consider that point of view to be too narrow a restriction upon the…