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

Article IV of chapter 11, titled "Electronic Inventory Trading System in Secondhand Goods Business," applies to every owner or operator of a pawnshop, pawnbroker or dealer in secondhand goods operating within the unincorporated areas of Pulaski County; dealers inside Little Rock, North Little Rock, Jacksonville, Sherwood or Cammack Village fall under those cities' own ordinances instead. Section 11-44 required covered dealers, within one year of the ordinance's adoption in February 2008, to put in place an electronic inventory tracking system able to transmit all statutorily required transaction information by computer to whatever entity the Pulaski County Sheriff's Department designates to receive it.

The system exists so deputies can search dealer inventories for property reported stolen without physically visiting every shop; the sheriff's office designates the receiving database rather than the code naming a specific vendor or software. The requirement sits alongside chapter 11's other business-permit provisions, including the county's separate permits for wholesale and retail liquor sales, hotel and restaurant alcohol permits, and private club permits, each of which carries its own annual fee and renewal cycle under the same chapter. Unlike those alcohol permits, § 11-44 does not set an application fee or renewal date of its own; it is a standing operational requirement tied to doing business as a secondhand dealer in the unincorporated county, enforced independent of whatever state pawnbroker licensing Arkansas law separately requires.