Constitution of Arkansas (2025 publisher edition) — Amendment 31: POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS’ RETIREMENT SALARIES

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its preamble, twenty original articles, schedule and 104 published amendments, including annotations and explicit repealed notices. Repealed notices remain historical publisher context.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 31

AMEND. 31. POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS’ RETIREMENT SALARIES
AND PENSIONS .
Publisher’s Notes. This amendment was proposed by
initiative petition and adopted at the general election on
Nov. 5, 1940, by a vote of 115,138 for and 51,749 against.
§ 1. Election on question — Tax levy.
After consent of the majority of those voting on the question at any general or special election
in cities of the first or second class, the cities may annually thereafter, levy a tax on the assessed
value of real and personal property, not to exceed two mills on the dollar, from which there shall
be created a Fund to pay Retirement Salaries and pensions to policemen and firemen theretofore
or thereafter earned, and pensions to the widows and minor children of such, as may be provided
by law. The annual levy for the Policeman’s Retirement Salary and Pension Fund shall not exceed
one mill on the dollar, and the annual levy for the Fireman’s Retirement Salary and Pension
Funds, shall not exceed one mill on the dollar. The manner of such levy of the tax, and the
eligibility for the retirement salaries and pensions, the several amounts thereof and when
payable, shall be such as may be provided by law.