Hire a Registered Agent in Kansas

Kansas law calls this role a resident agent: the person or company named to receive legal papers and official state mail for a Kansas entity, at a Kansas address called the registered office. It is required by K.S.A. 17-7924 and 17-7925.

Yes. Every Kansas LLC, corporation, limited partnership and other covered entity must appoint and continuously maintain a resident agent under K.S.A. 17-7925, from the day it files its Articles of Organization.

Yes. Kansas allows an LLC to name itself as its own resident agent, or to name an individual Kansas resident, under K.S.A. 17-7925(a). Many owners hire a service instead to keep a monitored address and avoid missing a delivery.

No. K.S.A. 17-7924(c) requires the registered office to be a street, rural route or highway address with a building number, city, state and zip code; 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 ROA, the Certificate of Amendment, Change of Resident Agent and/or Registered Office, with the Kansas Secretary of State for $30 online or $35 by paper, under K.S.A. 17-7926.

The Secretary of State gives 30 days' notice, and if the entity does not designate a valid resident agent in that time, the state declares its Articles of Organization — or a foreign entity's authority to do business — forfeited under K.S.A. 17-7926(b).

No. Unlike some states, Kansas has no separate consent-to-serve filing. Once an entity designates its resident agent on its Articles of Organization or a Certificate of Amendment, the agent's duties under K.S.A. 17-7925(b) take effect automatically.

Yes, as long as they are an individual resident of Kansas and are regularly present at the registered office to accept service, under K.S.A. 17-7924 and 17-7925.

Only if that company is itself a domestic or foreign entity registered with the Kansas Secretary of State; an unregistered out-of-state company cannot serve as resident agent under K.S.A. 17-7925(a)(3)-(4).

A resident agent must forward any service of process or Secretary of State document to the entity under K.S.A. 17-7925(b); LLC Register scans and emails it to you the same day we receive it.

Yes. The resident agent's name and registered office address are part of the entity's filing with the Kansas Secretary of State and appear in the state's online Business Search.

Yes. A resident agent can file a certificate of resignation naming a successor agent under K.S.A. 17-7928, which becomes effective for the entities that ratify it once filed with the Secretary of State.

No. The biennial Information Report (Form ILC), due April 15 under K.S.A. 17-76,139, reports your principal office and members owning 5% or more of the LLC; a change of resident agent or registered office must be filed separately on Form ROA under K.S.A. 17-7926.

Yes, for every covered entity: LLCs, corporations, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships and business trusts registered with the Kansas Secretary of State must maintain one under K.S.A. 17-7925.

Yes. A foreign LLC must designate a Kansas resident agent with a physical Kansas street address on Form FA, the Application for Registration of Foreign Covered Entity, filed with the Kansas Secretary of State for a $165 fee, before it may transact business in the state.

No. A series is formed by filing a certificate of designation under K.S.A. 17-76,143, but it is not itself a separate "covered entity" for resident agent purposes — the resident agent designated for the parent LLC under K.S.A. 17-7925 continues to serve the LLC and every series within it.

Yes. A PLLC follows the same resident agent rule as any other Kansas LLC and must name its resident agent directly on its Articles of Organization under K.S.A. 17-7673, along with a licensing certificate from each profession's regulatory board.

Yes. A resident agent can file Form RAN, the Certificate of Resignation of the Resident Agent without Appointing a Successor, with the Kansas Secretary of State — a different filing from the successor-naming resignation process under K.S.A. 17-7928.

The Kansas Secretary of State can accept service on the entity's behalf. Under K.S.A. 60-304(f), once a process server has attempted service at the resident agent's address on file — or the entity has no active resident agent at all — they may instead serve the Secretary of State for a $50 processing fee, who forwards the papers to the entity.

Yes. Kansas has no separate nonprofit corporation act — nonprofits incorporate as nonstock corporations under the Kansas General Corporation Code, and K.S.A. 17-6002 requires every corporation's articles of incorporation to state its registered office address and the name of its resident agent, the same as a for-profit corporation.

No. The resident agent requirement in K.S.A. 17-7924 and 17-7925 applies only to "covered entities" that file formation documents with the Secretary of State — corporations, LLCs, limited partnerships, LLPs and business trusts — so a general partnership or sole proprietorship that never files with the state has no resident agent to maintain.

Search the Kansas Secretary of State's Business Entity Search Station by entity name or business ID number; the result page lists that entity's current resident agent name and registered office address.

No, not if you're keeping the same agent. A certificate of conversion filed under the Kansas Business Entity Transactions Act names the converted entity's resident agent, so a separate Form ROA change filing is needed only if you're also switching to a new agent.

Yes. A resident agent can file Form RGO, the Certificate of Amendment to the Resident Agent by the Resident Agent, with the Kansas Secretary of State to update only its own name or address — it keeps serving your entity under the existing designation.

Yes. A single individual or resident agent service can be named on any number of Kansas entities at once, as long as each appointment meets the residency (or Kansas-registration) and physical-address rules under K.S.A. 17-7924 and 17-7925.

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

Yes, as long as your attorney is a Kansas resident, or a law firm organized or registered in Kansas, with a business address identical to the registered office — the same eligibility rule under K.S.A. 17-7925(a) that applies to anyone else.

No. Kansas law treats the two terms as interchangeable — K.S.A. 17-7925 confirms that an existing reference to "registered agent" or similar terms in an entity's organizational documents satisfies the resident agent requirement without needing to be amended.

The Secretary of State treats that the same as having no valid resident agent at all: it mails a 30-day notice, and under K.S.A. 17-7926(b) the entity must designate a new resident agent within that window or face forfeiture of its Articles of Organization or, for a foreign entity, revocation of its authority to do business.

You have to name one upfront. K.S.A. 17-7673 requires the Articles of Organization to state the resident agent's name and the registered office address before the Secretary of State will file it — you cannot leave it blank and add an agent afterward.

Your registered office is specifically the Kansas address where your resident agent accepts legal mail, and K.S.A. 17-7924 says it need not be the same as your place of business; any reference to a "principal office" in your own formation documents is legally read as meaning your registered office.

No. K.S.A. 17-7924(c) requires a street, rural route or highway address with a building or suite number where the resident agent can be reached, and a commercial mail-receiving service or mailbox rental does not meet that rule any more than a P.O. box does.

No. Kansas's public filings and Business Entity Search list only your resident agent's name and registered office address; no phone number or email address is required or published.

No. Kansas has no periodic filing that reconfirms a resident agent — the Information Report doesn't touch it, so the only required update is filing Form ROA whenever your resident agent or registered office actually changes.

Yes. Nothing in K.S.A. 17-7925 prevents an owner, manager or officer from also serving as the entity's resident agent, as long as they meet the residency and physical-address requirements.

No. Kansas has no licensing, bonding or commercial-registered-agent registration requirement beyond the residency (or Kansas-registration) and physical-address rules in K.S.A. 17-7924 and 17-7925.

No. K.S.A. 17-7925(a) requires an individual resident agent to be a resident of Kansas; owning Kansas real estate does not meet that requirement if you personally live elsewhere.

No. K.S.A. 17-7925(b) limits a resident agent's role to accepting and forwarding legal notices and process addressed to the entity — it has no authority to sign contracts or act on the entity's behalf.

Yes. K.S.A. 17-7924 explicitly allows the registered office to be, but need not be, the same as your place of business — many small businesses use one Kansas address for both.