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BOYD v. WEISS

No. 97-895.

971 S.W.2d 237 (1998)

333 Ark. 684

James Preston BOYD, Jr., Appellant, v. Richard WEISS, Director of The Department of Finance and Administration for the State of Arkansas, The City of Texarkana, Dan Boyles, Delldon Brewer, Charles Drake, Dennis Huffman, Robert L. McMahon, Bobby Selph, Dewight Sperry, and Evelyn Townsend, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

June 25, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon Holmes, Little Rock, for Appellant.

Thomas Kirk Patton, Texarkana, Allan Gates, Marsha Talley Ballard, Little Rock, E. LeRoy Autrey, Texarkana, William H. Sutton, Elizabeth Robben Murray, John C. Fendley, Jr., R. Christopher Lawson, Beth B. Carson, Little Rock, for Appellee.

BROWN, Justice.

This appeal arises out of a constitutional challenge to Act 48 of 1977, now codified at Ark.Code Ann. § 26-52-601 to -606 (Repl. 1997), which was effective on January 31, 1977. Act 48 permits residents of Texarkana, Arkansas, to pay an additional one percent sales tax in exchange for exemption from the state income tax. Under Act 48, border cities which are divided by a "street state line" are eligible...

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