Opinion No.

The Honorable Ernest Cunningham State Representative 727 Columbia Street Helena, AR 72342

Dear Representative Cunningham:

This is in response to your request for an opinion regarding Act 545 of 1985 and Act 905 of 1989.

Your question is as follows:

Whether or not a candidate for a municipal office of a city of a first class which enacted an ordinance requiring independent candidates for municipal office to file a petition for nomination as an independent candidate no later than noon on the date before the preferential primary election pursuant to A.C.A. 7-1-107 can file for municipal office…