Constitution of Arkansas (2025 publisher edition) — Amendment 59: TAXATION (CONST., ART. 16, § 5, REPEALED; §§ 5, 14, 15,

Publisher edition notice: This collection preserves the complete constitutional appendix of the Secretary of State’s 2025 Election Laws and Constitution compilation: its preamble, twenty original articles, schedule and 104 published amendments, including annotations and explicit repealed notices. Repealed notices remain historical publisher context. Later amendments have not been independently verified.

Amendment 59

AMEND. 59. TAXATION (CONST., ART. 16, § 5, REPEALED; §§ 5, 14, 15,
16 ADDED) .
Publisher’s Notes. This amendment repealed Ark.
Const., Art. 16, § 5, and substituted a new section therefor
which appears as Ark. Const., Art. 16, § 5, in the text of the
Constitution. The amendment also added Ark. Const., Art.
16, §§ 14-16, which appear in the text of the Constitution.
The amendment was proposed by the General Assembly in
1979 (Extended Sess., 1980). It was voted on at the Nov. 4,
1980, election and adopted by a vote of 649,307 for and
152,629 against. See Wells v. Riviere, 269 Ark. 156, 599
S.W.2d 375 (1980), as to validity of proposal at extended
session.