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Senate committee clears path for Holiday Island to seek incorporation vote
Summary
The Senate City, County & Local Affairs Committee advanced SB548 after residents and the municipal league said the bill restores Holiday Island's option to petition for a municipal incorporation election by carving an exception to a 3-mile prohibition adopted in 2017.
Senator Ballinger asked the committee to advance Senate Bill 548, which would allow Holiday Island residents to petition for an election on incorporation despite a 2017 change that established a three-mile prohibition near existing municipalities. Ballinger said the language, drafted with the Arkansas Municipal League, narrowly restores an option Holiday Island lost when the law was amended.
John Wilkerson of the Arkansas Municipal League told the committee SB548 clarifies statutory terms and reduces the incorporation-population threshold to 1,500 in certain circumstances, while preserving the…
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