Opinion No.

The Honorable Larry Mitchell State Representative P.O. Box 81 Bryant, AR 72022-0081

Dear Representative Mitchell:

This is in response to your request for an opinion on the following questions:

1. Does the Conflict of Interest Statutes (Section 19-11-704 through 19-11-715 of the Arkansas Code Annotated of 1987) allow the state to hire this worker and then restrict the vendor from doing business with the state institution that did the hiring or do the statutes only restrict the activity of the state employee?

2. If the state prohibits the vendor from continuing to do business with a state agency…