Constitution of Arkansas (2025 publisher edition) — Amendment 95: [TERMS, ELECTION, AND ELIGIBILITY OF ELECTED

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its preamble, twenty original articles, schedule and 104 published amendments, including annotations and explicit repealed notices. Repealed notices remain historical publisher context.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 95

AMEND. 95. [TERMS, ELECTION, AND ELIGIBILITY OF ELECTED
OFFICIALS] (CONST., ART. 3, § 13 AND ART. 7, § 53, ADDED; CONST.,
ART. 5, § 9, ART. 7, §§ 19, 29, 46, AND AMEND. 41, AMENDED).
Publisher’s Notes. This amendment, effective January
1, 2017, added Ark. Const., Art. 3, § 13 and Art. 7, § 53;
and amended Art. 5, § 9, Art. 7, §§ 19, 29, 46, and Amend.
41. The amendments are incorporated within those sec-
tions. Amendment 95 was proposed by H.J.R. 1027 during
the 2015 Regular Session and adopted at the 2016 general
election by a vote of 747,856 for and 317,093 against.
Amend. 95, § 8, provided: “EFFECTIVE DATE.
“(a) This amendment shall be effective on and after
January 1, 2017.
“(b) Persons elected to the following offices at the 2016
general election shall serve terms of two (2) years:
“(1) County judge;
“(2) Sheriff;
“(3) Circuit clerk;
“(4) County clerk;
“(5) Assessor;
“(6) Coroner;
“(7) Treasurer;
“(8) County surveyor; and
“(9) Collector of taxes.
“(c) Persons elected to the following offices at the 2018
general election shall serve terms of four (4) years:
“(1) County judge;
“(2) Sheriff;
“(3) Circuit clerk;
“(4) County clerk;
“(5) Assessor;
“(6) Coroner;
“(7) Treasurer;
“(8) County surveyor; and
“(9) Collector of taxes.”
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