PULASKI COUNTY, Ark. — In some areas just outside Little Rock’s city limits, billboards are going up thanks to a new state law — angering some residents.

The billboards are going up in areas that, prior to this month, were known as extra-territorial jurisdictions, or ETJs.

These are areas a few miles outside a city’s limits that the city still has control over when it comes to building and zoning.

But on August 5, a new state law went into effect that got rid of ETJs and turned them into what one resident called ‘the wild wild west.’

Friday, we asked Pulaski County Judge Barry Hyde why the state legislature would pass a law like this.

“Not a clue,” Hyde replied.

It’s safe to say that Judge Hyde isn’t a fan of Act 314 — the law that ended the ETJ system.

“I wanted to know who would

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