Hire a Registered Agent in Connecticut

A registered agent is the person or company named to receive legal papers and official state mail for a Connecticut entity, at a physical Connecticut street address. It is required by Connecticut General Statutes § 34-243n.

Yes. Every Connecticut LLC, corporation and registered foreign LLC must designate and continuously maintain a registered agent under CGS § 34-243n, from the day it files its formation document.

Yes, if you are a Connecticut resident at least 18 years old with a street address where you can accept deliveries during normal business hours (CGS §§ 34-243n, 3-99g). Many owners hire a service instead to keep that address off the public record.

No. CGS § 34-243n requires a physical Connecticut street address; a P.O. box 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 Form BUS-009, Change of Agent, with the Connecticut Secretary of the State for a $50 fee. It can be filed online or by mail.

The Secretary of the State notifies the entity, and if it does not file an appointment of a new registered agent within three months of that notice, the state dissolves the entity by forfeiture under CGS § 34-267g.

Yes, in effect. Under CGS § 34-243n(b), naming someone as registered agent on a Connecticut filing is itself an affirmation that the agent has consented; Connecticut does not require a separate signed consent form the way some states do.

Yes, as long as they are a Connecticut resident, at least 18, have a street address, are available during business hours, and are willing to be named as agent under CGS §§ 34-243n and 3-99g.

Only if that company is itself a corporation, LLC, LLP or statutory trust organized or registered to do business in Connecticut and in good standing; an unregistered out-of-state entity cannot serve as agent under CGS § 3-99g.

Connecticut law makes the registered agent responsible for passing on any process, notice or demand it receives for the entity; 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 Connecticut Secretary of the State and can be looked up through the Business Records Search.

Yes. A registered agent can resign by filing a resignation with the Secretary of the State, which under CGS § 34-243p(c) requires notice to the entity and starts the process for the entity to name a replacement.

Yes. The Annual Report, due each year between January 1 and March 31 to the Connecticut Secretary of the State, must show your current registered agent and registered office address.

Yes, for every entity the Secretary of the State registers: LLCs, corporations, registered foreign LLCs and most other filing entities must designate one under CGS § 34-243n and the parallel sections for other entity types.

Yes. A foreign LLC must deliver a Foreign Registration Certificate to the Secretary of the State under CGS § 34-275b that names its Connecticut registered agent, and — following a 2024 update — also lists a valid email address and the company's NAICS industry code.

No. The Connecticut Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (CGS §§ 34-243 to 34-283d) has no series provisions at all, so a Connecticut LLC can't create internal series, and the question of a separate registered agent per series doesn't arise.

Yes. A professional LLC is formed under the same Connecticut Uniform Limited Liability Company Act and must simply add "professional limited liability company" or "PLLC" to its name under CGS § 34-243h; it follows the same registered agent rule in CGS § 34-243n as any other Connecticut LLC.

No. Under CGS § 34-243o(b), members or managers don't need to approve delivering a change-of-agent certificate to the Secretary of the State — the filing itself, naming the new agent, is enough as long as the new agent has consented to serve.

The LLC can be served directly. Under CGS § 34-243r(c), if the company has no registered agent or the agent can't be served with reasonable diligence, service may be made by registered or certified mail — or a comparable commercial delivery service — to the company's principal office, effective at the earliest of actual receipt, the date on a signed return receipt, or five days after mailing.

Yes. CGS § 33-1050, part of the Connecticut Revised Nonprofit Corporation Act, requires every corporation that must file an annual report under CGS § 33-1243 to continuously maintain a registered office and registered agent, the same structure used for business corporations.

Yes, though the statute uses a different name for it. Under CGS § 34-13b, every Connecticut limited partnership must maintain a "statutory agent for service" in the state — the same function as an LLC's registered agent, just an older term carried over from the state's 1980s-era Uniform Limited Partnership Act.

Use the Secretary of the State's Business Records Search, which draws on CONCORD, the state's commercial records database, and lets you search by company name to see its current registered agent and address at no cost.

Yes. Under CGS § 34-267b, a certificate of reinstatement must be accompanied by payment of all penalties, a current annual report, and an appointment of a registered agent for service of process — reinstatement isn't just paperwork about the entity's status.

Yes. Under CGS § 34-243q, a registered agent that changes its name or address has 30 days to file a certificate of change with the Secretary of the State, and another 30 days after that to notify the LLC of the change — your agent stays the same.

Yes. A single eligible individual or entity can be named registered agent for any number of Connecticut LLCs at once, as long as each appointment meets the eligibility categories listed in CGS § 34-243n(b).

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 a Connecticut resident individual, or a law firm organized or authorized to do business in the state, meeting the same eligibility rule under CGS § 34-243n that applies to anyone else.

No, within the LLC Act — CGS § 34-243n uses "registered agent" throughout, and "agent for service of process" is the same role described in plain language. Connecticut's own older limited partnership statute, by contrast, calls the role a "statutory agent for service" instead.

By email, not paper mail. Effective January 1, 2025, a change to CGS § 34-267g requires the Secretary of the State to send the forfeiture warning — and the follow-up notice after the certificate of dissolution is filed — to the LLC's email address on record, rather than mailing a physical notice as the law previously required.

You have to name one upfront. The certificate of organization filed under CGS § 34-247 must identify the registered agent at formation, consistent with the continuous-maintenance duty in CGS § 34-243n that starts the day the LLC is formed.

CGS § 34-243n(e) only requires the registered agent to have a place of business in Connecticut; it doesn't require the LLC itself to have one. Your principal office — reported separately, including on the annual report — can be anywhere, while the agent's address has to be a real Connecticut place of business.

No. Beyond barring a P.O. box, CGS § 34-243n(e) requires the registered agent to maintain an actual place of business in Connecticut — a commercial mail-receiving address alone, without a real business presence there, doesn't satisfy that standard.

Not necessarily. A foreign LLC's registration certificate normally lists a manager's or member's business and residence addresses, but CGS § 34-275b(a)(6) lets the Secretary of the State accept a business address instead "for good cause," including a showing that disclosing the residence address would create a significant personal-security risk.

Yes. CGS § 33-1243 requires the annual report that triggers the registered agent duty in § 33-1050, so a nonprofit's current registered agent and registered office get confirmed to the Secretary of the State every year along with business corporations.

Yes. Nothing in CGS § 34-243n prevents an owner, manager or officer from also serving as the LLC's registered agent, as long as that person or entity fits one of the eligible categories listed in the statute.

No. The Connecticut Uniform Limited Liability Company Act sets eligibility categories for who may serve as registered agent under CGS § 34-243n, but it imposes no separate licensing, bonding or state-registration regime on registered agents themselves.

No. CGS § 34-243n(b)(1) requires an individual registered agent to be "a natural person who is a resident of this state"; owning Connecticut real estate doesn't meet that requirement if you personally live elsewhere.

No. CGS § 34-243n(f) limits a registered agent's duties to forwarding process, notices and demands, and to giving the required resignation or name/address-change notices — it has no authority to sign contracts or act for the LLC.

Yes. Nothing in CGS § 34-243n requires the two to be different, and many small Connecticut businesses use a single address for both, as long as it's a genuine place of business for the registered agent.