Constitution of Arkansas (2025 publisher edition) — Amendment 63: FOUR YEAR TERMS FOR STATE CONSTITUTIONAL

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its preamble, twenty original articles, schedule and 104 published amendments, including annotations and explicit repealed notices. Repealed notices remain historical publisher context.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 63

AMEND. 63. FOUR YEAR TERMS FOR STATE CONSTITUTIONAL
OFFICERS .
§ 1. Executive Department — Term of office.
The Executive Department of this State shall consist of a Governor, Lieutenant Governor,
Secretary of State, Treasurer of State, Auditor of State, Attorney General and Commissioner of
State Lands, all of whom shall keep their offices at the seat of government, and hold their offices
for the term of four (4) years, and until their successors are elected and qualified.
Publisher’s Notes. This amendment was proposed by
initiative petition and filed in the office of the Secretary of
State on July 2, 1984. It was approved at the general
election on Nov. 6, 1984, by a vote of 499,083 for and
277,735 against.
This amendment probably supersedes Ark. Const., Art.
6, § 1; Ark. Const. Amend. 6, § 1; and Ark. Const. Amend.
56, § 1.
Effective Dates.
Ark. Const. Amend. 63, § 2: effective Jan. 1, 1987, and
applicable to officers elected at the 1986 general election
and thereafter.
707 Amend. 63, § 1 TERMS OF OFFICE

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