Jump to full article: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 2009-04-20
Author: SETH BLOMELEY
Intro: Keep America Beautiful then awarded his group a grant for 12 cigarette urns, each costing about $150.
After a month, Pope did another "butt count," as he called it.
"It was down to 475," he said. "That sounds like an unacceptable number but it does show that cigarette urns will reduce litter by more than 50 percent."
At Pope's urging, Rep. Rick Green, R-Van Buren, filed House Bill 1172 during the recent legislative session to give a state income tax credit worth 20 percent of the purchase price of a cigarette urn. It would make the credit - a reduction of tax owed - available to businesses with fewer than 50 employees.
It was signed into law by Gov. Mike Beebe on Tuesday.
HB1172 passed by wide margins:
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