§ 26-74-404 - Conduct of election and results -- Challenges.
26-74-404. Conduct of election and results -- Challenges.
(a) The election shall be conducted in the manner provided by law for all other county elections unless otherwise specified in this subchapter.
(b) When the election results have been certified, the county court shall immediately issue a proclamation declaring the results of the election and cause the proclamation to be published one (1) time in a newspaper having general circulation within the county.
(c) Any person desiring to challenge the results of the election as published in the proclamation shall file the challenge in the circuit court of the county within thirty (30) days after the date of publication of the proclamation.
(d) (1) The county court shall notify the Director of the Department of Finance and Administration of the tax after publication of the proclamation has occurred and ninety (90) days before the effective date of the tax.
(2) (A) If no election challenge is timely filed, there shall be levied, effective on the first day of the first month of the calendar quarter after a minimum of sixty (60) days' notice by the director to sellers and after the expiration of the thirty-day challenge period, a one-half percent (0.5%) tax on the gross receipts from the sale of all items that are subject to the Arkansas Gross Receipts Act of 1941, 26-52-101 et seq., and the Arkansas Compensating Tax Act of 1949, 26-53-101 et seq.
(B) In every county where the local sales and use tax has been adopted pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter, there is imposed an excise tax on the storage, use, distribution, or consumption within the county of tangible personal property and services purchased, leased, or rented from any retailer outside the state after the effective date of the sales and use tax for storage, use, distribution, or other consumption in the county at a rate of one-half percent (0.5%) of the sale price of the property and services or in the case of leases or rentals of the lease or rental price, the rate of the use tax to correspond to the rate of the sales tax portion of the tax.
(3) The use tax portion of the local sales and use tax shall be collected according to the terms of the Arkansas Compensating Tax Act of 1949, 26-53-101 et seq.
(e) (1) In the event of an election challenge, the tax shall be collected as prescribed in subsection (d) of this section unless enjoined by a court order.
(2) A hearing involving this litigation shall be advanced on the docket of the courts and disposed of at the earliest feasible time.