Constitution of Arkansas (2025 publisher edition) — Amendment 54: PURCHASE OF PRINTING, STATIONERY AND

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its preamble, twenty original articles, schedule and 104 published amendments, including annotations and explicit repealed notices. Repealed notices remain historical publisher context.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 54

AMEND. 54. PURCHASE OF PRINTING, STATIONERY AND
SUPPLIES (CONST., ART. 19, § 15, REPEALED AND SECTION
ADDED) .
§ 1. Contracts given to lowest responsible bidder.
The printing, stationery, and supplies purchased by the General Assembly and other depart-
ments of government shall be under contracts given to the lowest responsible bidder, below such
maximum price and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by law. No member or officer
of any department of government shall in any way be interested in such contracts.
Publisher’s Notes. This Amendment was proposed by
S.J.R. No. 6 (see Acts 1973, p. 2225) and filed in the office
of the Secretary of State on April 5, 1973. It was approved
at the general election on Nov. 5, 1974, by a vote of 259,639
for and 210,830 against.
Const. Amend. 54, § 2 repealed Ark. Const., Art. 19,
§ 15.
Acts 1983, No. 760, § 1 read: “On the effective date of
this Act, printing, stationery and supplies subject to
Amendment 54 of the Arkansas Constitution shall be
subject to the provisions of the Arkansas Preference Law,
Act 482 of 1979 as amended.”
700 Amend. 51, § 20 CONSTITUTION OF ARKANSAS

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