PULASKI COUNTY, Ark. — After months of debate, two controversial billboards in rural Pulaski County have come down.

The billboards initially went up in August, the same day a new state law took effect that eliminated Extra Territorial Jurisdictions (ETJs).

ETJs were areas a few miles outside a city’s limits that the city still retained control over for planning and zoning.

“Legislature, in the most recent session, decided that that was no longer good policy,” Barry Hyde, Pulaski County Judge, said, “And passed a law to dissolve that ETJ provision, effective in August.”

The bill’s sponsor told THV11 in August that its purpose was to allow people living in these rural areas to make their own decisions without having to get approval from a city they didn’t live in.

However, once the law

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