Constitution of Arkansas (2025 publisher edition) — Amendment 43: [REPEALED.]

Publisher edition notice: This collection preserves the complete constitutional appendix of the Secretary of State’s 2025 Election Laws and Constitution compilation: its preamble, twenty original articles, schedule and 104 published amendments, including annotations and explicit repealed notices. Repealed notices remain historical publisher context. Later amendments have not been independently verified.

Amendment 43

AMEND. 43. [REPEALED.]
Publisher’s Notes. Ark. Const. Amend. 94, which re-
pealed this amendment effective November 5, 2014, was
proposed by H.J.R. 1009 during the 2013 Regular Session
and adopted at the November 2014 general election by a
vote of 428,206 for and 388,459 against.
Before repeal, this amendment read:
“Salaries and expenses of judges.
“The General Assembly shall by law determine the
amount and method of payment of salaries and expenses of
the judges of the Supreme Court, Circuit Courts, Chancery
Courts, and Municipal Courts of Arkansas; provided such
salaries and expenses may be increased but not diminished
during the term for which such judges are elected; provided
further that the salaries of Circuit and Chancery Judges
shall be uniform throughout the state.”
Amendment 43 was proposed by initiative petition filed
in the office of the Secretary of State on June 15, 1956. It
was approved at the general election on Nov. 6, 1956, by a
vote of 198,566 for and 155,627 against.
For current provision concerning compensation of jus-
tices and judges, see Ark. Const., Art. 19, § 31.