(a)
- (1) The Arkansas Ethics Commission shall, upon the filing of a petition for declaratory order by any person subject to the commission’s jurisdiction, promptly issue a declaratory order as to the applicability of any rule, statute, or order enforced by it.
- (2) Said petition shall contain the name, mailing address, telephone number, and signature of the person requesting the order and a full and complete statement of the facts or circumstances applicable to that person.
- (3) Such declaratory orders shall have the same status as final orders of the commission in cases of adjudication.
- (b) No declaratory order shall be valid, official, or have any effect unless same has been approved by a vote of a majority of a quorum of the commission.
- (c) The commission is not bound by or obligated to release the conclusions or language of the staff’s draft order but may alter, amend, add to, or strike any portion of the draft order, or may table said draft order for future consideration or request that it be rewritten to comply with the commission’s directives, as the commission shall so decide.
- (d) No draft order prepared by the commission staff shall be considered an official order until it has received an affirmative vote of a majority of a quorum of the commission.
- (e) The commission may reconsider, withdraw, or amend prior orders upon request of a citizen, or on its own motion, on a majority vote of a quorum of the commission.
- (f) All declaratory orders issued by the commission shall be made available for public inspection.