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AR Code § 3-8-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 3 - Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Local Option|Subchapter 3 - Proceedings Pursuant to 1935 Act|§ 3-8-305. Elections for entire county, district, or city — Effect

 (a)  (1) No election in any town, city, district, or precinct of a county shall be held under this subchapter on the same day on which an election for the entire county is held.  (2) When an election is held in an entire county and a majority of the legal votes cast at the election are against the sale, barter, or loan of spirituous, vinous, malt, or other intoxicating liquors, then it shall not be lawful to sell, barter, or loan any liquors in any portion of the county.  (3) If, at an election for the entire county, the majority of the legal votes cast are in favor of the sale, barter, or loan of any liquors, the election shall not operate to make it legal to grant license to sell, barter, or loan such liquors in any territorial division of the county from which the sale, barter, or loan has been excluded by an election held under this subchapter, but the status of the territorial division shall remain as if no election had been held.    (b)  (1) No election shall be held in any election precinct under this act on the same day on which an election is held for the district or city of which the precinct is a part.  (2) If, at an election held for the entire district or city, the majority of legal votes cast shall be in favor of the sale, barter, or loan of spirituous, vinous, malt, or other liquors, then the status in the several precincts thereof shall remain as it was before the election.  (3) If the majority should be against the sale, then the sale, barter, or loan of such liquors shall be unlawful in every portion of the district or city.
AR Code § 3-8-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 3 - Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Local Option|Subchapter 3 - Proceedings Pursuant to 1935 Act|§ 3-8-306. Certificate of election results

 (a) If it shall be found that a majority of the legal votes cast at any election provided for in this subchapter were given for or against the manufacture, sale, barter, loan, or giving away of any intoxicating liquors in the county, city, town, district, or precinct, it shall be the duty of the county board of election commissioners to certify that fact. The certificate shall be delivered to the clerk of the county court with a map or plat of the area covered by the election results and safely kept by him or her until the next regular term of the county court.  (b) At the next regular term, the judge of the county court shall have the certificate spread upon the record of his or her court.  (c) The entry of the certificate in the record or a certified copy thereof shall be prima facie evidence in any or all proceedings under this act.  (d) When the local option results have been spread of record by the county clerk, the county clerk shall notify the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division of the results of the local option elections within thirty (30) days after the certificate has been spread of record. The notification submitted to the division shall include a certified copy of the election results and a map or plat of the area covered by the election results.
AR Code § 3-8-307 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 3 - Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Local Option|Subchapter 3 - Proceedings Pursuant to 1935 Act|§ 3-8-307. Effect of vote against sale

 If, at any election provided for in this act, a majority of the legal votes cast are against the sale, barter, or loan of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, then the sale, barter, or loan of any such liquors shall be unlawful in such county, city, town, district, or precinct, as the case may be, except as provided, unless at a subsequent election held under this act, a majority of the legal votes cast shall be in favor of the sale of the liquors.
AR Code § 3-8-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 3 - Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Local Option|Subchapter 3 - Proceedings Pursuant to 1935 Act|§ 3-8-308. Applicability of election laws — Violations

 (a) If, at any election provided for in this act, any person shall vote who is not entitled to vote under the laws of this state at elections for county officers, he or she shall be punished as for a violation of the general laws on elections.  (b) All general laws to protect the purity of elections shall be applicable to this act.
AR Code § 3-8-310 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 3 - Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Local Option|Subchapter 3 - Proceedings Pursuant to 1935 Act|§ 3-8-310. Effect of voting for or against sale — Penalty for unlawful sales

 (a)  (1) Whenever a local option election shall be held in any county, city, town, district, or precinct in this state and a majority of the votes cast at the election shall be in favor of prohibiting the sale of liquor in the territory in which the election shall have been held, the law prohibiting the sale shall be in full force and effect at the expiration of sixty (60) days from the date of the entry of the certificate of the canvassing board in the record of the county court.  (2) After the expiration of sixty (60) days, no liquor license theretofore issued in the territory under the laws of this state shall be of any force or effect whatever, but the owner of the license shall be entitled to recover from the county, city, town, district, or precinct to which the license money was paid, the proportional part thereof as the unexpired period of license bears to the whole of the year.    (b)  (1) Upon conviction, any person who shall sell, barter, or loan directly or indirectly any such liquors in the city, county, town, district, or precinct after sixty (60) days shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor.  (2) Upon conviction, any person who knowingly furnishes or rents a house, room, wagon, or any conveyance or thing in which spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors are sold, bartered, or loaned, in violation of this act, shall be guilty of a violation and fined not less than sixty dollars ($60.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100). The house, wagon, vehicle, or other thing in which the liquors were sold, bartered, or loaned shall be liable for all fines adjudged against the person selling, bartering, or loaning the same.    (c) In the event that a majority of the votes cast at the election shall be in favor of the sale of liquors, then no license shall be granted to any person, firm, or corporation to sell such liquors in the territory until after the expiration of the aforesaid sixty (60) days, if the issuing of the liquor license was in that territory prohibited by law prior to the holding of the election.
AR Code § 3-8-312 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 3 - Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Local Option|Subchapter 3 - Proceedings Pursuant to 1935 Act|§ 3-8-312. Sale, barter, or possession for sale or barter in dry area — Penalties

 (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to sell or barter, or possess for purposes of sale or barter, any intoxicating liquor or beverage in any county, township, municipality, ward, or precinct in which the sale or barter of intoxicating liquor or beverage is or shall be prohibited by law.  (b)  (1) Upon first conviction, any person or officers of any firm or corporation that shall do so shall be guilty of a violation and shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).  (2) The person or officers of a firm or corporation for a second conviction shall be guilty of a violation and fined not less than two hundred dollars ($200) nor more than two thousand dollars ($2,000).  (3) For any subsequent conviction, the person or officers of a firm or corporation shall be guilty of a Class D felony.    (c) The defendant shall be specifically charged with violating the felony provision of this section.  (d) Bond forfeitures under this section or any statute or municipal ordinance of this state prohibiting the unlawful sale or barter or possession for sale or barter of any intoxicating liquor or beverage shall be considered as a conviction in determining whether or not the defendant is properly charged with a second offense or a felony as set out in this section.
AR Code § 3-8-313 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 3 - Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Local Option|Subchapter 3 - Proceedings Pursuant to 1935 Act|§ 3-8-313. Indictment

 (a) In an indictment for a violation of any provision of this act or for a violation of any act amendatory hereof, it shall not be necessary to allege that a vote was taken or any election held, or any other step relative thereto.  (b) It may be simply stated that the act or acts charged were committed in a territory where this act was in force, and in the indictment it shall be sufficient to designate this act as the local option law.
AR Code § 3-8-314 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 3 - Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Local Option|Subchapter 3 - Proceedings Pursuant to 1935 Act|§ 3-8-314. Bond for multiple violations

 (a) On the second or any subsequent conviction for a violation of this act or any of its amendments, the court shall require the defendant to execute bond in the sum of two hundred dollars ($200) to be of good behavior for the period of twelve (12) months.  (b) The court may, in its discretion, increase the amount of the bond. If the bond is not given, the defendant shall be committed to the county jail for a period not exceeding ninety (90) days, to be fixed by the court.
AR Code § 3-8-315 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 3 - Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Local Option|Subchapter 3 - Proceedings Pursuant to 1935 Act|§ 3-8-315. C.O.D. shipments

 (a) All the shipments of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors to be paid for on delivery, commonly called “C.O.D. shipments”, into any county, city, town, district, or precinct where this act is in force shall be unlawful and shall be deemed sales of such liquors at the place where the money is paid or the goods delivered.  (b) The carrier and his or her agents selling or delivering such goods shall be liable jointly with the vendor thereof.
AR Code § 3-8-316 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 3 - Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Local Option|Subchapter 3 - Proceedings Pursuant to 1935 Act|§ 3-8-316. Act given in charge to grand jury

 It shall be the duty of the judges of the circuit courts to give this act in charge to the grand juries of the counties within their jurisdiction.
AR Code § 3-8-317 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 3 - Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Local Option|Subchapter 3 - Proceedings Pursuant to 1935 Act|§ 3-8-317. Wholesale of intoxicating liquor in prohibited territory

 (a)  (1) It shall be unlawful to sell by wholesale any spirituous, vinous, malt, or other intoxicating liquor, regardless of the name by which it is called, except manufacturers selling liquor of their own make at the place of manufacture to a wholesale dealer or a licensed retail dealer, in any county, city, town, district, or precinct where the sale of liquor has been prohibited by vote of the people under the local option law.  (2)  (A) A licensed wholesaler may maintain an alcoholic beverage storage facility in a county, city, town, district, or precinct where the sale of liquor has been prohibited when the storage facility is located in the same county as the wholesaler's licensed distributorship.  (B) A storage facility permitted under subdivision (a)(2)(A) of this section is subject to inspection and approval of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division.      (b) Any person violating this act shall be deemed guilty of violating the local option law and shall be subject to trial and punishment according to the provisions of the local option law and its amendments.
AR Code § 3-8-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 3 - Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Local Option|Subchapter 4 - Beer and Light Wine|§ 3-8-401. Beer and light wine

 (a) At each general election for state and county offices, there may be submitted to the qualified electors of any county in the State of Arkansas so desiring, in the manner provided for the submission in a county of the question under the initiative and referendum provisions of the Constitution and laws of the State of Arkansas, the question as to whether the sale of beer and light wine containing alcohol not in excess of five percent (5%) by weight shall or shall not be permitted within the county for two (2) years in case the matter is voted on at a general election.  (b) In voting upon the question, the electors shall have printed or written upon their ballot, “FOR the sale of beer and light wines” or “AGAINST the sale of beer and light wines”.  (c) The election shall be held at the same time and place and in the same manner as other elections. All returns shall be canvassed, sealed, and forwarded by the officers of the election to the county board of election commissioners of the county voting thereon.  (d) The board shall canvass the votes and certify the results thereof to the clerk of the circuit court of the county to be by him or her filed in his or her office, which certificate shall be prima facie evidence of the legal or illegal sale of beer and light wine in the county.  (e) Each and every county voting against the sale of beer and light wine shall not participate in any revenue for school purposes levied and collected under § 3-5-205 during the time the county or counties prohibited the sale of the beer and light wine.  (f) The expense of the election shall be borne by the petitioners calling the election.
AR Code § 3-8-501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 3 - Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Local Option|Subchapter 5 - Petition for Local Option Elections|§ 3-8-501. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Dry” means that the manufacture, sale, barter, loan, or giving away of intoxicating liquors is unlawful in a prescribed area;  (2) “Intoxicating liquors” means all beverages containing more than one-half of one percent (0.5%) of alcohol by weight; and  (3) “Wet” means that the manufacture, sale, barter, loan, or giving away of intoxicating liquors is lawful in a prescribed area.
AR Code § 3-8-601 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 3 - Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Local Option|Subchapter 6 - Local Option Elections|§ 3-8-601. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Beer” means a fermented liquor made from malt or a malt substitute and containing not more than five percent (5%) alcohol by weight;  (2) “Defunct voting district” means a voting district that:  (A) Existed at the time its qualified voters voted to be dry;  (B) Is no longer recognized by the state or the county in which it was located; and  (C) Is currently located in a wet county;    (3) “Dry” means a county or territorial subdivision that voted to prohibit the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquor under Initiated Act No. 1 of 1942, as amended, §§ 3-8-201 — 3-8-203 and 3-8-205 — 3-8-209, or § 3-8-302 [repealed], § 3-8-303, § 3-8-304 [repealed], § 3-8-305, and § 3-8-306;  (4) “Malt beverage” means a liquor brewed from the fermented juices of grain and having an alcoholic content of not less than five percent (5%) and not more than twenty-one percent (21%) of alcohol by weight;  (5) “Spirituous liquor” means a liquor distilled from the fermented juices of grain, fruits, or vegetables and containing more than twenty-one percent (21%) alcohol by weight or any other liquids containing more than twenty-one percent (21%) alcohol by weight;  (6) “Territorial subdivision” means a township, municipality, ward, or precinct of a county of the state;  (7) “Vinous beverage” means the fermented juices of fruits or a mixture containing the fermented juices of fruits containing more than five percent (5%) and not more than twenty-one percent (21%) alcohol by weight;  (8) “Voting district” means a geographical area of qualified voters of a county in this state; and  (9) “Wet” means a county or territorial subdivision that voted to permit the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquor under Initiated Act No. 1 of 1942, as amended, §§ 3-8-201 — 3-8-203 and 3-8-205 — 3-8-209, or § 3-8-302 [repealed], § 3-8-303, § 3-8-304 [repealed], § 3-8-305, and § 3-8-306.
AR Code § 3-8-701 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 3 - Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Local Option|Subchapter 7 - Disclosure Act for Initiative Proceedings|§ 3-8-701. Title

 This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Disclosure Act for Initiative Proceedings”.
AR Code § 3-8-704 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 3 - Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Local Option|Subchapter 7 - Disclosure Act for Initiative Proceedings|§ 3-8-704. Contributions and expenditures limited

 (a) No local-option ballot question committee shall accept any contribution in cash, meaning currency or coin, that exceeds one hundred dollars ($100).  (b) No local-option ballot question committee shall accept any contribution from a prohibited political action committee as defined in § 7-6-201.  (c) No local-option ballot question committee or individual shall make an expenditure in cash that exceeds fifty dollars ($50.00) to influence the qualification, disqualification, passage, or defeat of a local-option ballot question.  (d) No contributions shall be made, directly or indirectly, by any person in a name other than the name by which the person is identified for legal purposes.  (e)  (1) No person shall make an anonymous contribution totaling fifty dollars ($50.00) or more to a local-option ballot question committee.  (2) Any anonymous contribution actually received by a local-option ballot question committee shall be promptly paid by the recipient to the Secretary of State for deposit into the State Treasury as general revenues.
AR Code § 3-8-705 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 3 - Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Local Option|Subchapter 7 - Disclosure Act for Initiative Proceedings|§ 3-8-705. Financial reports — Requirement

 (a) A local-option ballot question committee that either receives contributions or makes expenditures in excess of five hundred dollars ($500) for the purpose of expressly advocating the qualification, disqualification, passage, or defeat of a local-option ballot question shall file with the Arkansas Ethics Commission a Ballot Question Committee Financial Report as required by §§ 7-9-407 — 7-9-409.  (b) An individual person who on his or her own behalf expends in excess of five hundred dollars ($500), excluding contributions, for the purpose of expressly advocating the qualification, disqualification, passage, or defeat of a local-option ballot question shall file with the commission financial reports as required by §§ 7-9-407 — 7-9-409.  (c) An elected official expending public funds in excess of five hundred dollars ($500) for the purpose of expressly advocating the qualification, disqualification, passage, or defeat of a local-option ballot question shall file with the commission financial reports as required by §§ 7-9-407 — 7-9-409.  (d) Except as provided in subsection (e) of this section, a report required by this subchapter shall be deemed timely filed if it is:  (1) Hand-delivered to the commission on or before the date due;  (2) Mailed to the commission, properly addressed, postage prepaid, bearing a postmark indicating that it was received by the post office or common carrier on or before the date due;  (3) Received via facsimile by the commission on or before the date due, provided that the original is received by the commission within ten (10) days of the transmission; or  (4) Received by the commission in a readable electronic format that is approved by the commission.    (e) Whenever a report under this subchapter becomes due on a day that is a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, the report shall be due the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.  (f) A preelection report is timely filed if it is received by the commission no later than seven (7) days prior to the election for which it is filed.
AR Code § 3-8-707 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 3 - Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Local Option|Subchapter 7 - Disclosure Act for Initiative Proceedings|§ 3-8-707. Financial reports — Verification

 The financial reports identified in § 3-8-706 shall be verified by affidavit by the person filing them to the effect that to the best of his or her knowledge and belief the information disclosed is a complete, true, and accurate financial statement of contributions or expenditures.
AR Code § 3-8-708 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 3 - Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Local Option|Subchapter 7 - Disclosure Act for Initiative Proceedings|§ 3-8-708. Financial reports — Time to file — Late fee

 (a)  (1) The first financial reports shall be filed no later than fifteen (15) days following the month in which the threshold of five hundred dollars ($500) under § 3-8-706 is met and thereafter no later than fifteen (15) days after the end of each month until the election is held. However, for any month in which certain days of that month are included in a preelection financial report required under subdivision (a)(2) of this section, no monthly report for that month shall be due, but those days of that month shall be carried forward and included in the final financial report.  (2) Additionally, a preelection financial report shall be filed no less than seven (7) days prior to any election on the ballot question or legislative question, such statement to have a closing date of ten (10) days prior to the election.  (3) Furthermore, a final financial report shall be filed no later than thirty (30) days after the election.    (b) A local-option ballot question committee, individual person, or elected official who files a late financial report shall be subject to a late filing fee not to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00) for each day the report remains unfiled.
AR Code § 3-8-709 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 3 - Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Local Option|Subchapter 7 - Disclosure Act for Initiative Proceedings|§ 3-8-709. Public inspection — Record retention

 (a) All statements of organization and financial reports required by this subchapter shall be open to public inspection at the office of the Arkansas Ethics Commission during regular office hours.  (b) All records supporting the reports filed under this subchapter shall be:  (1) Made available to the commission; and  (2) Retained by the filer for a period of four (4) years after the date of filing the report.
AR Code § 3-8-710 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 3 - Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Local Option|Subchapter 7 - Disclosure Act for Initiative Proceedings|§ 3-8-710. Enforcement

 The Arkansas Ethics Commission shall have the same power and authority to enforce the provisions of this subchapter as are provided the commission under §§ 7-6-217 and 7-6-218 for the enforcement of campaign finance laws.
AR Code § 3-8-711 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 3 - Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Local Option|Subchapter 7 - Disclosure Act for Initiative Proceedings|§ 3-8-711. Reporting the use of state funds to oppose or support ballot measure

 Any funds appropriated to any state agency, board, or commission that are expended for the purpose of opposing or supporting a local-option ballot question that is submitted or intended to be submitted to a popular vote at an election, whether or not it qualifies for the ballot, shall be reported to the Legislative Council if the amount exceeds one hundred dollars ($100).
AR Code § 3-8-712 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 3 - Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Local Option|Subchapter 7 - Disclosure Act for Initiative Proceedings|§ 3-8-712. Use of state funds to oppose or support a local-option ballot measure

 The use of state funds under this subchapter includes expenditures for:   (1) Newspaper, television, radio, and other forms of communication;  (2) Publication materials;  (3) Travel expenses relative to reimbursement;  (4) Surveys;  (5) Private contracts; and  (6) Postage.
AR Code § 3-8-713 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 3 - Alcoholic Beverages|Chapter 8 - Local Option|Subchapter 7 - Disclosure Act for Initiative Proceedings|§ 3-8-713. Applicability of §§ 3-8-711 and 3-8-712

 This subchapter does not apply to state funds appropriated to any elected officials.