Arkansas Code Title 7, Chapter 9, Subchapter 1 - Petition and Election Procedure

• § 7-9-101 - Definitions.
  As used in this subchapter: (1) "Act" means an act having general application throughout the state, whether originating in the General Assembly or proposed...
• § 7-9-102 - Duties of Election Officers -- Penalty for Failure to Perform.
  (a) (1) The duties imposed by this act upon members of the State Board of Election Commissioners and county boards of election commissioners, election...
• § 7-9-103 - Signing of Petition -- Penalty for Falsification -- Notice of Suspected Forgery.
  (a) (1) (A) A person who is a registered voter of this state may sign his or her own name and print his or...
• § 7-9-104 - Form of Initiative Petition -- Sufficiency of Signatures.
  (a) The petition for an ordinance, act, or amendment proposed by initiative shall be on substantially the following form: "INITIATIVE PETITION(b) The information provided...
• § 7-9-105 - Form of Referendum Petition -- Sufficiency of Signatures.
  (a) The petition and order of referendum for an ordinance or act shall be on substantially the following form: "REFERENDUM PETITION(b) The information provided...
• § 7-9-106 - Required Attachments to Petitions.
  (a) To every petition for the initiative shall be attached a full and correct copy of the title and the measure proposed.(b) To every...
• § 7-9-107 - Approval of Ballot Titles and Popular Names of Petitions Prior to Circulation -- Publication.
  (a) Before any initiative or referendum petition ordering a vote upon any amendment or act shall be circulated for obtaining signatures of petitioners, the...
• § 7-9-108 - Procedure for Circulation of Petition.
  (a) Each initiative or referendum petition ordering a vote upon a measure having general application throughout the state shall be prepared and circulated in...
• § 7-9-109 - Form of Verification -- Penalty for False Statement.
  (a) Each petition containing signatures shall be verified in substantially the following form by the canvasser's affidavit thereon as a part thereof: Click here...
• § 7-9-110 - Designation of Number and Popular Name.
  (a) The popular name of each state measure shall be designated as provided in § 7-9-107, and the number of the measure on the...
• § 7-9-111 - Determination of Sufficiency of Petition -- Corrections.
  (a) (1) The Secretary of State shall ascertain and declare the sufficiency or insufficiency of each initiative and referendum petition within thirty (30) days...
• § 7-9-112 - Failure to Act on Petition -- Mandamus -- Injunction.
  (a) If the Secretary of State does not examine and certify an initiative or referendum petition within the time prescribed in § 7-9-111, the...
• § 7-9-113 - Publication of Notice.
  (a) The Secretary of State shall be charged with the duty of letting contracts for publishing notices as authorized in this section.(b) (1) Before...
• § 7-9-114 - Abstract of Proposed Measure.
  (a) The Attorney General shall prepare a concise abstract of the contents of each statewide initiative and referendum measure proposed under Arkansas Constitution, Amendment...
• § 7-9-115 - Furnishing Ballot Title and Popular Name to Election Commissioners.
  Not less than eighteen (18) days before the election, the Secretary of State shall furnish the State Board of Election Commissioners and county boards...
• § 7-9-116 - Captions and Designations of Numbered Issues.
  (a) The Secretary of State shall fix and declare the number of the issue by which state measures shall be designated on the ballot.(b)...
• § 7-9-117 - Ballot Form.
  (a) It shall be the duty of the county board of election commissioners in each county to cause each title and popular name to...
• § 7-9-118 - Failure to Place Proposal on Ballot -- Manner of Voting.
  If any election board shall fail or refuse to submit any proposal after its sufficiency has been duly certified, the qualified electors of the...
• § 7-9-119 - Counting, Canvass, and Return of Votes -- Proclamation of Result -- Effective Date.
  (a) The vote on each measure shall be counted, tabulated, and returned by the proper precinct election officials to the county board of election...
• § 7-9-120 - Printing of Approved Measures With General Laws -- Certification of City Ordinances.
  (a) The Secretary of State shall cause every measure approved by the people to be printed with the general laws enacted by the next...
• § 7-9-121 - Contest of Returns and Certification.
  (a) The right to contest the returns and certification of the votes cast upon any measure is expressly conferred upon any twenty-five (25) qualified...
• § 7-9-122 - Adoption of Conflicting Measures.
  If two (2) or more conflicting measures shall be approved by a majority of the votes severally cast for and against the measures at...
• § 7-9-123 - Preservation of Records.
  All petitions, notices, certificates, or other documentary evidence of procedural steps taken in submitting any measure shall be filed and preserved. Petitions with signatures...
• § 7-9-124 - Voter Registration Signature Imaging System -- Creation of Fund.
  (a) There is hereby established in the office of the Secretary of State a voter registration signature imaging system, and the Secretary of State...
• § 7-9-125 - Definitions -- Prohibition of Profit -- Penalties -- Freedom of Information.
  (a) As used in this section, "property" means both real and personal property and includes without limitation both tangible and intangible property.(b) (1) No...
• § 7-9-126 - Count of Signatures.
  (a) Upon the initial filing of an initiative or referendum petition, the official charged with verifying the signatures shall: (1) Perform an initial count...

Last modified: November 15, 2016