Arkansas § 4-33-1501 Authority to transact business required

Arkansas Statutes

§ 4-33-1501 — Authority to transact business required

Arkansas § 4-33-1501

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Ark. Code Ann. § 4-33-1501 (2026).

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(a)A foreign corporation may not transact business in this state until it obtains a certificate of authority from the Secretary of State.

(b)The following activities, among others, do not constitute transacting business within the meaning of subsection (a) of this section:

(1)maintaining, defending, or settling any proceeding;

(2)holding meetings of the board of directors or members or carrying on other activities concerning internal corporate affairs;

(3)maintaining bank accounts;

(4)maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of memberships or securities or maintaining trustees or depositaries with respect to those securities;

(5)selling through independent contractors;

(6)soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by mail or through employees or age

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(a) A foreign corporation may not transact business in this state until it obtains a certificate of authority from the Secretary of State. (b) The following activities, among others, do not constitute transacting business within the meaning of subsection (a) of this section: (1) maintaining, defending, or settling any proceeding; (2) holding meetings of the board of directors or members or carrying on other activities concerning internal corporate affairs; (3) maintaining bank accounts; (4) maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of memberships or securities or maintaining trustees or depositaries with respect to those securities; (5) selling through independent contractors; (6) soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by mail or through employees or agents or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside this state before they become contracts; (7) creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages, and security interests in real or personal property; (8) securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages and security interests in property securing the debts; (9) owning, without more, real or personal property; (10) conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within thirty (30) days and that is not one in the course of repeated transactions of a like nature; (11) transacting business in interstate commerce. (c) The list of activities in subsection (b) of this section is not exhaustive.