Washington County, AR Business Licensing & Operations: Secondhand Dealers (2026)

§§ 17-44-101 et seq. Every recycler covered by that statute must keep, maintain, transmit, and report all required records electronically rather than on paper, and the reporting has to be transmitted over the Internet to whatever person or entity the Washington County Sheriff designates to receive it. The ordinance ties compliance directly to computer-based recordkeeping: dealers must keep, maintain, report, and transmit records and reports by use of a computer, not by ledger or handwritten log. Geographically, the rule reaches only the unincorporated portions of Washington County; a recycler operating inside Fayetteville, Springdale, Prairie Grove, Farmington, or Elkins is outside this county ordinance unless that city has separately agreed the county rule applies within its limits.

When the ordinance passed, covered dealers already operating had six months from the date of passage to come into compliance with the electronic transmission system, and the Sheriff was directed to notify all affected persons or entities once the ordinance took effect. The scheme is enforced through the Sheriff's office, which both designates the electronic reporting portal and monitors compliance, tying county-level recordkeeping to the state's underlying secondhand-goods tracking purpose of deterring trafficking in stolen scrap metal.