Title 17, Professions, Occupations, and Businesses

It is the duty of the county sheriff and other law enforcement officers in each county and the prosecuting attorney for each county to enforce the provisions of this subchapter.

(a) It is unlawful for any transient merchant to transact business in any county in this state unless the merchant and the owners of any goods, wares, or merchandise to be offered for sale or sold, if such are not owned by the merchant, shall have first secured a registration cer…

(a) Any transient merchant desiring to transact business in any county in this state shall register in each county in which the merchant desires to transact business. (b) The registration shall be filed with the county clerk and shall include the following information:(1) The nam…

(a) Each registered agent designated by a transient merchant shall be a resident of the county and shall be agent of the transient merchant upon whom any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon the transient merchant may be served. (b) The regist…

(a) Each application for a transient merchant registration certificate shall be accompanied by a registration fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) and by a cash bond or a surety bond issued by a corporate surety authorized to do business in the state in the amount of two thousand dollar…

(a) A transient business registration certificate shall be issued under this section only when all requirements of this subchapter have been met. (b) The registration certificate shall:(1) Not be transferable;(2) Be valid only within the territorial limits of the issuing county;(…

(a) Peddlers have always been recognized as a special class, subject to special laws regulating, licensing, and policing the class. This is based on their particular way of doing business, upon the fact that many of them contribute nothing or very little in the way of taxes and o…

(1) As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) (A) “Established place of business” means any permanent warehouse, building, or structure:(i) At which a permanent business is carried on in good faith, and not for the purpose of evading this subchapter, d…

(a) No person shall be exempt from the requirements of this subchapter by reason of the provisions of § 17-49-202(4)(B) unless he or she or the driver of the motor vehicle upon which his or her property is being transported shall, upon the request of any state, county, or townshi…

(a) Any person violating any provision of this subchapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, except as herein otherwise provided, and shall upon conviction be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) or by imprisonment in…

It shall be the duty of the Department of Finance and Administration or its authorized agents, the Department of Arkansas State Police, and all peace officers to enforce this subchapter.

Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to repeal or amend any statute delegating authority to any county or municipal corporation to license, tax, or regulate peddlers or itinerant merchants.

No person shall engage in business or use any motor vehicle in this state as an itinerant merchant, as defined and fixed in § 17-49-202, without complying with this subchapter and without obtaining from the Department of Finance and Administration the license required by this sub…

(a) An application for a license as an itinerant merchant shall be made to the Department of Finance and Administration through any of its authorized agents upon forms to be prepared by the department. (b) A separate application and license shall be required for each motor vehicl…

(a) (1) The fee for each license, except as herein otherwise provided, shall be fifty dollars ($50.00) per year.(2) However, if the license is issued after June 30 in any year, the license fee shall be twenty-five dollars ($25.00).(3) The proper fee shall accompany the applicatio…

(a) No license shall be issued by the Department of Finance and Administration until the applicant has filed with each application the following insurance policies and bonds issued by an insurance company or bonding company authorized to do business within this state, which have …

(1) Any person having a cause of action against the itinerant merchant arising out of the matters described in § 17-49-210(a)(1) and (2):(1) May join the itinerant merchant and the surety on his or her bond in the same action; or(2) May sue the surety without joining the itineran…

Before a license shall be issued, the applicant shall sign and file with the Department of Finance and Administration an irrevocable power of attorney appointing the department his or her agent to accept service of summons for all causes of action against him or her arising out o…

(a) Upon the approval and issuance of the application and upon compliance with the terms of this subchapter, the Department of Finance and Administration shall issue to the applicant a license as an itinerant merchant. (b) The license shall:(1) Be numbered;(2) Show the amount of …

Upon such notice and hearing as the Department of Finance and Administration may deem proper, it may revoke any license issued under the provisions of this subchapter for failure to comply with any of the laws of this state, or if any judgment recovered against any itinerant merc…

(1) As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Itinerant entrepreneur” means a person or firm who trades in goods or services for construction, improvement, or maintenance of houses or farm buildings or structures, who travels about, and who has no est…

Before engaging in business in any county, an itinerant entrepreneur shall register with the sheriff thereof his or her name and address and the nature of his or her business.

The provisions of this subchapter shall not apply to goods or services contracted for upon public or private advertised bids.

A person who violates this subchapter shall be fined in any sum not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500).