Judges: WINSTON BRYANT, Attorney General
Filed Date: 11/9/1995
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 7/5/2016
The Honorable Ed Wilkinson State Representative P.O. Box 610 Greenwood, AR 72936
Dear Representative Wilkinson:
This is in response to your request for an opinion regarding A.C.A. §
Whether the municipalities must publish in the closest newspaper to the city which can run legals; and what if the newspaper is outside the county?
I am somewhat uncertain, as an initial matter, regarding the reference in your first question to the "closest newspaper to the city. . . ." The key inquiry under A.C.A. §
The governing body of each municipality shall, semiannually, cause to be published one (1) time in one (1) legal newspaper of general circulation in the municipality a financial statement of the municipality, including the receipts and expenditures for that period and a statement of the indebtedness and financial condition of the municipality.
A.C.A. §
The fact that the newspaper is not actually published or printed in or near the municipality is irrelevant under this Code provision.1
Please note that I have enclosed for your convenience two opinions previously issued by this office (Ops. Att'y Gen.
With regard to your second question, the fact that the newspaper is actually published or printed outside the county will not, in my opinion, be dispositive as long as the paper is a "legal newspaper of general circulation in the municipality."
The foregoing opinion, which I hereby approve, was prepared by Assistant Attorney General Elisabeth A. Walker.
Sincerely,
WINSTON BRYANT Attorney General
WB:EAW/cyh