Hire a Registered Agent in Colorado

A registered agent is the person or company named to receive legal papers and official state mail for a Colorado entity, at a physical Colorado street address. It is required by Colorado Revised Statutes § 7-90-701.

Yes. Every Colorado LLC, corporation and other reporting entity must continuously maintain a registered agent under C.R.S. § 7-90-701, from the day it files its formation document.

Yes, if you are at least 18 years old with a primary residence or usual place of business in Colorado where you can accept deliveries during normal business hours (C.R.S. § 7-90-701). Many owners hire a service instead to keep that address off the public record.

No. C.R.S. § 7-90-701 requires the registered agent address to be a physical street address in Colorado; a P.O. box or a commercial mail-drop address does not qualify.

LLC Register charges $99 a year. Commercial registered agent services generally range from about $99 to $249 a year, based on published pricing checked 9/30/2026.

File the Statement of Change Changing the Registered Agent Information with the Colorado Secretary of State for a $10 fee. It is filed online, since Colorado does not accept paper business filings.

The Secretary of State can declare the entity delinquent 60 days after it sends notice of the problem, under C.R.S. §§ 7-90-901–7-90-902, and the entity may be dissolved under C.R.S. § 7-90-908 if the delinquency is not cured within 3 years.

Yes. C.R.S. § 7-90-701(3) requires any filing that appoints a registered agent to include a statement that the agent has consented. Colorado has no separate paper consent form — the statement is part of the filing itself.

Yes, as long as they are at least 18, have a primary residence or usual place of business in Colorado, are available during business hours, and consent as required under C.R.S. § 7-90-701.

Only if that company is itself authorized to transact business in Colorado and has a usual place of business there; an unauthorized out-of-state entity cannot serve as agent under C.R.S. § 7-90-701.

A registered agent is the entity's authorized agent to receive process, notices and demands under C.R.S. § 7-90-704; LLC Register scans and emails it to you the same day we receive it.

Yes. The registered agent's name and address are part of the entity's public filing with the Colorado Secretary of State, and appear in the Business Database Search and on the Periodic Report.

Yes. A registered agent can file a statement of change regarding resignation with the Secretary of State under C.R.S. § 7-90-702, which starts the state's process for the entity to name a replacement before facing delinquency.

Yes. The Periodic Report, due within a 5-month window around your entity's anniversary month and filed with the Colorado Secretary of State for $25, must show your current registered agent and address.

Yes, for every filing entity: LLCs, corporations, limited partnerships and most other entities on file with the Colorado Secretary of State must continuously maintain one under C.R.S. § 7-90-701.

Yes. A foreign LLC must name a Colorado registered agent with a Colorado street address before the Secretary of State will file its Statement of Foreign Entity Authority (C.R.S. § 7-90-801), a $100 filing that can only be submitted online.

No. Colorado does not recognize series LLCs at all — the legislature declined to adopt the Uniform Protected Series Act in 2020 — so there is no mechanism for a Colorado LLC to create internal series, let alone give each one its own registered agent.

Yes. Colorado has no separate professional-LLC statute — licensed professionals form a standard LLC under Title 7, Article 80 — so the same registered agent rule in C.R.S. § 7-90-701 applies to it as to any other Colorado LLC.

The resignation isn't effective until the 31st day after the agent files its statement with the Secretary of State, or sooner if a new agent is appointed first. Under C.R.S. § 7-90-702, the resigning agent must also deliver notice of the change directly to the entity.

Colorado lets the plaintiff serve the entity directly instead of going through the Secretary of State. Under C.R.S. § 7-90-704, if the entity has no registered agent or the agent can't be found with reasonable diligence, service may be made by registered or certified mail to the entity's principal address, perfected at the earliest of actual receipt, the date on a signed return receipt, or five days after mailing.

Yes. The Colorado Revised Nonprofit Corporation Act (Title 7, Articles 121–137) makes nonprofits "reporting entities" subject to the same registered agent requirement, C.R.S. § 7-90-701, that applies to for-profit corporations and LLCs.

Yes. The Certificate of Limited Partnership filed under C.R.S. § 7-62-201 must name the partnership's initial registered agent and Colorado street address, the same information an LLC discloses in its Articles of Organization.

Yes. The Advanced Search on the Secretary of State's Business Database Search lets you filter by registered agent name — first, last, middle initial and suffix — to find every entity a given agent represents, in addition to the standard entity-name search.

No, not if you're keeping the same agent. A Statement of Conversion under C.R.S. § 7-90-201.7 carries the existing registered agent designation forward to the converted entity; a separate change filing is only needed if you're also switching to a new agent.

Yes. Under C.R.S. § 7-90-703, a registered agent can file a statement of correction with the Secretary of State to fix its own registered agent name or address on record — the entity keeps the same agent, and nothing else about the appointment changes.

Yes. A single individual or qualifying business entity can be named as registered agent for any number of Colorado entities at once, as long as each appointment meets the residency or usual-place-of-business rule under C.R.S. § 7-90-701.

Yes. The IRS treats an annual registered agent fee as an ordinary and necessary business expense, deductible in the year you pay it.

Yes, as long as your attorney is an individual Colorado resident, or a law firm with a usual place of business in Colorado, meeting the same eligibility rule under C.R.S. § 7-90-701 that applies to anyone else.

No. Colorado's statute, C.R.S. § 7-90-102, defines and uses the term "registered agent" throughout; "agent for service of process" describes the same role in plain language, a phrase some other states use directly in their own code.

Not continuously, the way a corporation or LLC does, but it can designate one. Colorado's Uniform Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act lets such an association file a Statement Appointing an Agent for service of process with the Secretary of State, even though the association isn't a "reporting entity" required to maintain an agent at all times.

You have to name one upfront. The Articles of Organization require the registered agent's name and Colorado address before the Secretary of State will file them — you cannot leave it blank and designate an agent afterward.

They're tracked as two separate fields. Your registered agent's street address must be a physical location in Colorado where someone can accept delivery; your principal office address identifies where you actually run the business and, unlike the agent's address, doesn't have to be in Colorado at all.

Not as the agent's required street address — P.O. boxes and commercial mail-receiving addresses don't qualify there. Colorado does, however, let you list a separate Colorado mailing address, which can be a P.O. box or CMRA, in addition to the agent's physical street address.

No. The Secretary of State's public record shows only your registered agent's name and street address; no phone number or email address is required or published.

Yes. Nonprofits file the same Periodic Report as for-profit entities, due annually in a filing window around the entity's anniversary month, and it must show the nonprofit's current registered agent and principal office address.

Yes. Nothing in C.R.S. § 7-90-701 prevents an owner, manager or officer from also serving as the entity's registered agent, as long as that person meets the residency and address requirements.

Not licensed or bonded, but as of July 1, 2025, House Bill 24-1137 does impose new requirements: an individual registered agent must verify Colorado residency with a Colorado driver's license or ID (or an alternative address-verification process), and a business entity serving as agent must itself be registered and in good standing in Colorado.

No. An individual registered agent must have a primary residence or usual place of business in Colorado, and since July 1, 2025, must verify that Colorado residency with a driver's license, state ID, or the Secretary of State's address-verification process; owning Colorado property alone doesn't satisfy either rule.

No. A registered agent's statutory role under C.R.S. § 7-90-704 is limited to receiving process, notices and demands on the entity's behalf — it has no authority to sign contracts or otherwise act for the entity.

Yes. Nothing requires the two to be different — many small Colorado businesses use one street address for both, as long as it meets the registered agent's physical-address and business-hours-availability rule.