{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-14-42-204","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 14-42-204","heading":"Election returns generally","body":"(a) The returns of all municipal corporations shall be made to the county board of election commissioners of the county in which the corporation is situated and shall be opened by them within three (3) days after their receipt. (b) (1) The election board shall count the vote as it appears from the pollbooks, make an abstract thereof, and forward it to the mayor. (2) In like manner and without delay, the board shall furnish to each candidate elected a certificate of election or leave it at his or her usual place of abode. Acts 1875, No. 1, § 72, p. 1; C. \u0026 M. Dig., § 7516; Pope's Dig., § 9576; A.S.A. 1947, § 19-903.\n\n(a) The returns of all municipal corporations shall be made to the county board of election commissioners of the county in which the corporation is situated and shall be opened by them within three (3) days after their receipt.\n\n(b) (1) The election board shall count the vote as it appears from the pollbooks, make an abstract thereof, and forward it to the mayor. (2) In like manner and without delay, the board shall furnish to each candidate elected a certificate of election or leave it at his or her usual place of abode.\n\n(1) The election board shall count the vote as it appears from the pollbooks, make an abstract thereof, and forward it to the mayor.\n\n(2) In like manner and without delay, the board shall furnish to each candidate elected a certificate of election or leave it at his or her usual place of abode.","path":["AR Code","Title 14","Chapter 42","Subchapter 2"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_ar_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:35:43Z","sha256":"024702a7cf67cf111da89b2653d7230deffb92d507cebcea994093311fe25f4b","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-14-42-203","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-14-42-205","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ar","title":"Arkansas Release 78 supplement","text":"Arkansas electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ar.code"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}