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Recent Arkansas Supreme Court rulings have stripped a Mountain Home exterminator of his seat on the state Plant Board.
The Plant Board, which was created in 1917 to address a plant disease that threatened the state’s apple industry, most recently operated with seven members appointed by the governor and nine other members appointed by the various agricultural trade groups whose industries are regulated by the board. Two members represent the University of Arkansas System’s Agriculture Division, but do not have voting privileges.
Mark Hopper of Hopper Termite and Pest Control was one of the nine trade-group representatives to lose their seats Thursday after the state Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to have the trade groups directly appointment representatives to the board. Hopper, which joined the Plant Board in July 2020, was the representative for the Arkansas Pest Management Association.