Ark. Code § 4-27-1501 : BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL LAW — CORPORATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS — BUSINESS CORPORATION ACT OF 1987 — FOREIGN CORPORATIONS — CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY —27-1501 - Authority to transact business required

(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 shareholders, 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 the corporation's own 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.

Ark. Code § 4-27-1501

Acts 1987, No. 958, § 64-1501; 1987 (1st Ex. Sess.), No. 11, § 14.
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