CITY OF WARD v. WARD WATER AND SEWER SYSTEM

No. 83-19.

655 S.W.2d 454 (1983)

280 Ark. 177

CITY OF WARD, Arkansas and City Council of Ward, Arkansas, Appellants, v. WARD WATER AND SEWER SYSTEM, Ward Arkansas, By Nicholas PEHOSH, John Cox, Inez E. Yarbrough, Virgil D. Temple and Billy J. Bailey, Commissioners, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Rehearing Denied September 12, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William G. Fleming, North Little Rock, for appellants.

James B. Gannaway and Bert N. Darrow, Cabot, for appellees.


HAYS, Justice.

The single issue presented is whether the city council of an Arkansas municipal corporation, having adopted an ordinance creating a water and sewer commission, may abolish the commission by a majority vote.

On August 16, 1982 the Ward City Council passed Ordinance No. W2-82, providing for the abolishment of the Ward Water and Sewer Commission, created some fifteen years earlier, and for the operation of the system under the supervision of the...

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