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Helping auctioneers do business.

The purpose of the Interstate Auction Association is:

  1. to protect the constitutional right to earn a living as an auctioneer and to freely engage in professional auctioneer speech;
  2. to protect the freedom of auctioneers, auction professionals, auction firms and referrers alike to practice auctioneering without intrusive and protectionist measures.
  3. to protect those who seek to develop and innovate new approaches to auctioneering;
  4. to protect the rights and freedoms of all auctioneers, regardless of whether they conduct outcry or online auctions;
  5. to make it easier for auctioneers to conduct business across state lines;
  6. to maximize consumer choice for auction services; and
  7. to reduce the costs of auction services to consumers by eliminating or minimizing rent-seeking.

The Interstate Auction Association plans to realize its purpose by attempting to:

  1. Eliminate auction licensure in license states;
  2. Minimize the impact of auction licensure where it still exists;
  3. Prevent the expansion of existing auction licensure to online auctions;
  4. Prevent the expansion of auction licensure to non-license states; and
  5. Clarify and standardize the treatment of auctions in state laws.

Resources
Learn more about which states require licenses to conduct sales at auction.

Read about the recent legal cases by the IAA.