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1961 Arkansas Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (1961)

handle is hein.sag/sagar0019 and id is 1 raw text is: STATE OF ARKANSAS OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL COPY January 25, 1961 Honorable John H. Stge Sheriff & Colleetor Chiet County Lake villageo Arkans Dear NMeit sgie I This will ackneoviedge yar letter of Jenamy 17, 1961, wbereia yev ask the opitsa of the Attorney Gaeral on the follwtags th County quorm Court approved and appropriated msay foer a two-way radio not to eoaed $4500.00. Is it within the discretion of the County Judge to deny my eqmdtture for this? In answer to your questLa, Ark. Const., Art. 7, § 28, statess The county courts shall have aeolesio original jurisdiction to all matters relatag to county tames, roeds, bridges, ferries, peapers, bastardy, vagrasts, the apprenticeship of astnors, the die- bursement of Mney for county purposes, and in every othr case that may be Aecessary to the ioter* nal taprevemnt and local concerns 61 the respective counties. The county court shall be hald by one judge, asxept io cases otherwise herein provided. In Chies CM v. . 47 Ark. 80, the Court stated that the Cmty G0urt has oigal melusive Juriediction to audit, settle and direct the payment of all demands against the county * * *. In a similar asee to the situation described in your letter, the Arkansas court held that the Legislature did not vast in the querm Caert the pmer to amke eatreate for the expenditure of the mesy appropriated by it ad that it was obviously the purpose of the Legislature to reqire that the asay should be expanded under the direetion of the County Judge. The legalature designated the officer wo should have that power and it was not within the provinee of the

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