§ 3-8-302 - Petition and order for election. - Arkansas Statutes

3-8-302. Petition and order for election.

(a) Upon application by written petition, signed by a number of legal voters in any county, city, town, district, or precinct to be affected equal to thirty-five percent (35%) of the qualified voters, it shall be the duty of the judge of the county court in the county at the next regular term thereof, after receiving the petitions, to make an order on his or her order book directing an election to be held in the county, city, town, district, or precinct to be affected thereby, on some day named in the petition no earlier than sixty (60) days after the application is lodged with the judge of the court. However, in counties having two (2) judicial districts, the legal voters in either district may petition for an election and the election can only affect the judicial district where the election may be held.

(b) The order shall direct the sheriff or other officer of the county, who may be appointed to hold the election, to open a poll at each and all of the voting places in the county, city, town, district, or precinct on the appointed date, for the purpose of taking the sense of the legal voters of the county, city, town, district, or precinct, who are qualified to vote at elections for county officers, upon the proposition whether or not spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors shall be sold, bartered, or loaned therein.