Arkansas Code Title 3, Chapter 8, Subchapter 8 - Circulation of Petition for Local Option Election

• § 3-8-801 - Definitions.
  As used in this subchapter: (1) "Canvasser" means a person who circulates a local option election petition or a part or parts of a...
• § 3-8-802 - Hiring and Training of Paid Canvassers.
  (a) (1) A person shall not provide money or anything of value to another person for obtaining signatures on a local option election petition...
• § 3-8-803 - Petition to Determine Granting of Licenses for Manufacture or Sale or Bartering, Loaning, or Giving Away of Intoxicating Liquor.
  (a) An election to determine whether licenses will be granted for the manufacture or sale or the bartering, loaning, or giving away of intoxicating...
• § 3-8-804 - Duties of Election Officers -- Penalty for Failure to Perform.
  (a) The duties imposed by this subchapter upon members of the State Board of Election Commissioners, members of the county boards of election commissioners,...
• § 3-8-805 - Signing of Petition -- Penalty for Falsification -- Notice of Suspected Forgery.
  (a) (1) A person signing a petition under this subchapter shall: (A) Be a registered voter; and (B) Sign his or her own name...
• § 3-8-806 - 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:"PETITION FOR LOCAL OPTION ELECTIONTo the...
• § 3-8-807 - Procedure for Circulation of Petition.
  (a) (1) Each petition under this subchapter for an election to be held in a district that includes more than one (1) county shall...
• § 3-8-808 - 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:"State of Arkansas,...
• § 3-8-809 - Failure to Act on Petition -- Mandamus -- Injunction.
  (a) If the county clerk does not examine and certify a petition under this chapter within the time prescribed in § 3-8-803, the sponsors...
• § 3-8-810 - Preservation of Records.
  (a) All petitions, notices, certificates, or other documentary evidence of procedural steps taken under this subchapter shall be filed and preserved.(b) Petitions with signatures...
• § 3-8-811 - Count of Signatures.
  (a) Upon the initial filing of a petition under this subchapter, the official charged with verifying the signatures shall: (1) Perform an initial count...

Last modified: November 15, 2016