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8-10-302. Construction of motor vehicle racing facility — Requirement — Definition.
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8-10-302. Construction of motor vehicle racing facility — Requirement — Definition.
(a)(1) Due to the noise, air pollution, and traffic congestion caused by motor vehicle racing facilities, no motor vehicle racing facility may be constructed in this state after passage of this act without the consent of at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the property owners and seventy-five percent (75%) of the registered voters within three (3) miles of the outside boundary of the proposed motor vehicle racing facility.
(2)(A) Such consent shall be accomplished by signing petitions that shall be filed with the city clerk if the motor vehicle racing facility is to be located within the boundaries of any city or town or with the county clerk if the motor vehicle racing facility is to be located wholly or partially outside the boundaries of any city or town.
(B) The petitions shall indicate:
(i) The name;
(ii) The residence address or, if a nonresident property owner, the address or legal description of the property located within the three-mile area; and
(iii) The date of the signature.
(C)(i) The petitions must be verified pursuant to § 7-9-109.
(ii) Signatures shall become invalid sixty (60) days after signing.
(iii) It shall be the duty of the county clerk or city clerk, as the case may be, to determine the sufficiency of the signatures and to certify the sufficiency or insufficiency of the signatures in writing to the Division of Environmental Quality.
(b) As used in this section, “motor vehicle racing facility” means any facility designed and used for competitive racing by automobiles or trucks that are modified for racing.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 8-10-302
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8-10-302. Construction of motor vehicle racing facility — Requirement — Definition.
(a)(1) Due to the noise, air pollution, and traffic congestion caused by motor vehicle racing facilities, no motor vehicle racing facility may be constructed in this state after passage of this act without the consent of at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the property owners and seventy-five percent (75%) of the registered voters within three (3) miles of the outside boundary of the proposed motor vehicle racing facility.
(2)(A) Such consent shall be accomplished by signing petitions that shall be filed with the city clerk if the motor vehicle racing facility is to be located within the boundaries of any city or town or with the county clerk if the motor vehicle racing facility is to be located wholly or partially outside the boundaries of any city or town.
(B) The petitions shall indicate:
(i) The name;
(ii) The residence address or, if a nonresident property owner, the address or legal description of the property located within the three-mile area; and
(iii) The date of the signature.
(C)(i) The petitions must be verified pursuant to § 7-9-109.
(ii) Signatures shall become invalid sixty (60) days after signing.
(iii) It shall be the duty of the county clerk or city clerk, as the case may be, to determine the sufficiency of the signatures and to certify the sufficiency or insufficiency of the signatures in writing to the Division of Environmental Quality.
(b) As used in this section, “motor vehicle racing facility” means any facility designed and used for competitive racing by automobiles or trucks that are modified for racing.
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7-9-109. Form of verification — Penalty for false statement.
(a) Each petition containing signatures shall be verified in substantially the following form by the canvasser's affidavit thereon as a part thereof:
“State of Arkansas County of I, (print name of canvasser) , being duly sworn, state that each of the foregoing persons signed his or her own name to this sheet of the petition in my presence. To the best of my knowledge and belief, each signature is genuine and each signer is a registered voter of the State of Arkansas, County, or City or Incorporated Town of . At all times during the circulation of this signature sheet, an exact copy of the popular name, ballot title, and text was attached to the signature sheet. My current residence address is correctly stated below. Signature Current residence Indicate one: Paid Canvasser Volunteer/Unpaid Canvasser Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of , 20 Signature Clerk, Notary, Judge, or J.P. Seal ”.
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(b) Forms herein given are not mandatory, and if substantially followed in any petition it shall be sufficient, disregarding clerical and merely technical errors.
(c)(1) Petitions shall not be disqualified due to clerical or technical errors made by a clerk, notary, judge, or justice of the peace when verifying the canvasser's signature.
(2) Petitions shall not be disqualified for failure of a clerk, notary, judge, or justice of the peace to sign exactly as his or her name appears on his or her seal if the signature of a clerk, notary, judge, or justice of the peace is sufficient to verify his or her name.
(d) A canvasser who knowingly makes a false statement on a petition verification form required by this section shall be deemed guilty of a Class D felony.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 7-9-109
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 7-9-109. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.