Opinion No.

The Honorable William P. Mills State Representative P. O. Box 1378 Searcy, AR 72143

Dear Representative Mills:

This is to acknowledge receipt of your letter requesting an opinion on the interpretation of Ark. Stat. Ann. 71-401. Specifically you ask if this statute requires an auctioneer, if licensed in one county, to also be licensed in every other county in which he does business. Ark. Stat. Ann. 71-401 provides:

No person shall exercise the trade or business of a public auctioneer, by selling any goods or other property subject to duty under this law, without a license, to be issued according…