Arkansas Constitution
Article 7 - Judicial Department
Section 19 - Circuit clerks - Election - Term of office - Ex-officio duties - County clerks elected in certain counties

The clerks of the circuit courts shall be elected by the qualified electors of the several counties for the term of two years, and shall be ex-officio clerks of the county and probate courts and recorder; provided, that in any county having a population exceeding fifteen thousand inhabitants, as shown by the last Federal census, there shall be elected a county clerk, in like manner as the clerk of the circuit court, and in such case the county clerk shall be ex-officio clerk of the probate court of such county until otherwise provided by the General Assembly. [As amended by Const. Amend. 24, § 3.]