§ 4-75-706 - Director of Arkansas Tobacco Control -- Powers and duties. - Arkansas Statutes

4-75-706. Director of Arkansas Tobacco Control -- Powers and duties.

(a) (1) The Director of Arkansas Tobacco Control shall prescribe, adopt, and enforce rules relating to the administration and enforcement of this subchapter.

(2) (A) The director is empowered to and may from time to time undertake and make or cause to be made one (1) or more cost surveys for the state or such trading area as he or she shall define, and when the cost survey shall have been made by or approved by the director, it shall be permissible to use the cost survey as provided in 4-75-711(b).

(B) The director is also empowered to investigate price fixing.

(3) The director may revoke or suspend the license issued under the provisions of this subchapter of any person who refuses or neglects to comply with any provisions of this subchapter or any rule of the director prescribed under this subchapter.

(b) Whenever any person fails to comply with any provision of this subchapter or any rule of the director promulgated under this subchapter, the director, upon a hearing, after giving the person ten (10) days' notice in writing specifying the time and place of the hearing and requiring the person to show cause why his or her license should not be revoked, may revoke or suspend the license held by the person.

(c) Any ruling, order, or decision of the director shall be subject to review, as provided by law, in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county in which the person affected resides.