Hire a Registered Agent in New Jersey

A registered agent is the person or entity named to receive legal papers and official state mail for a New Jersey entity, at a New Jersey street address called the registered office. It is required by N.J.S.A. 42:2C-14.

Yes. Every New Jersey LLC, corporation and limited partnership must designate and continuously maintain a registered agent under N.J.S.A. 42:2C-14, from the day it files its Certificate of Formation.

Yes, if you are a New Jersey resident with a street address in the state where you can accept deliveries (N.J.S.A. 42:2C-14(a)). Many owners hire a service instead to keep that address off the public record.

No. The Certificate of Formation requires a street address for the registered office, listed separately from any mailing address, under N.J.S.A. 42:2C-18, so a P.O. box alone 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 Certificate of Change of Registered Agent, Registered Office, or Both with the Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services for a $25 fee, under N.J.S.A. 42:2C-15. It is filed online through the Division's portal.

The state can revoke an LLC's certificate that goes two consecutive years without a valid registered agent or a filed Annual Report, after written notice by certified mail, under N.J.S.A. 14A:4-5; reinstatement then costs an additional $75.

No. Unlike some states, New Jersey's LLC Act does not require a separate written consent filing; naming the agent on the Certificate of Formation, under N.J.S.A. 42:2C-18, is what puts them of record.

Yes, as long as they reside in New Jersey and have a street address there where mail can be accepted, as required under N.J.S.A. 42:2C-14.

Only if that company itself has authority to transact business in New Jersey and maintains a New Jersey street address; an entity without that authority cannot serve as agent under N.J.S.A. 42:2C-14(a).

New Jersey law makes the registered agent the entity's point of contact for service of process delivered to the registered office under N.J.S.A. 42:2C-14; LLC Register scans and emails it to you the same day we receive it.

Yes. The registered agent's name and registered office address are part of the entity's public filing with the Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services and appear on the Certificate of Formation and Annual Report.

Yes. A registered agent can file a statement of resignation with the Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services under N.J.S.A. 42:2C-16, which the state mails to the entity, and the agency ends on the 31st day after filing unless a replacement is named sooner.

Yes. The Annual Report, due every year by the last day of the LLC's anniversary month of formation for a $75 fee, must show your current registered agent and registered office.

Yes, for every filing entity: LLCs, corporations, limited partnerships and most other entities registered with the Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services must designate one under N.J.S.A. 42:2C-14.

Yes. A foreign LLC applies for a Certificate of Authority under N.J.S.A. 42:2C-58, and that filing — like a domestic Certificate of Formation — requires naming a New Jersey registered agent under § 42:2C-14(b), for a $100 fee through the Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services.

No. New Jersey's LLC Act, N.J.S.A. 42:2C, has no series LLC provisions, so a New Jersey LLC can't create the separate, internally liability-shielded series available in states like Nevada or Montana.

No, because New Jersey doesn't have a professional LLC statute at all. A licensed professional instead organizes as a professional service corporation under the Professional Service Corporation Act, N.J.S.A. 14A:17, which follows the same registered agent rule as any other New Jersey corporation.

A similar but separate one. N.J.S.A. 14A:4-1 requires every corporation to continuously maintain a registered office and registered agent with a business office identical to that registered office; the agent can be a natural person 18 or older or a corporation authorized to transact business in New Jersey.

By board resolution and a certificate filed under N.J.S.A. 14A:4-3 — a separate process from the Certificate of Change that an LLC files under § 42:2C-15.

Yes. N.J.S.A. 15A:4-5 requires every nonprofit corporation's annual report — filed online with the Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services for a $30 fee — to state its registered office address and the name of its registered agent, and — mirroring the for-profit rule — the state can revoke a nonprofit's certificate after two consecutive years without a valid filing.

Yes. New Jersey's Limited Partnership Law, N.J.S.A. 42:2A, requires a Certificate of Limited Partnership under § 42:2A-14 that names the partnership's registered office and registered agent.

No. General partnerships formed under New Jersey's Uniform Partnership Act, N.J.S.A. 42:1A, have no registered-office or registered-agent requirement; a partnership only files Form NJ-REG for state tax and employer registration.

Search for a Business Status Report or Standing Certificate on njportal.com's business records tool — a different tool from the Business Entity Name Search used for name availability — to see the registered agent and registered office on file.

Not a separate one — it's built into the conversion filing. New Jersey's conversion forms, CD-100 (converting to a New Jersey entity) or CD-101 (converting to an out-of-state entity), are filed through the Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services and require naming the resulting entity's registered agent directly.

Yes. Under § 42:2C-15(b) and (c), a registered agent can file one statement of change updating its own name or registered-office address for every New Jersey entity it represents at once, separate from the entity-initiated change in § 42:2C-15(a).

Yes. New Jersey doesn't require a "commercial registered agent" to separately register with the state, so a single resident individual or authorized business entity can be named on any number of entities' filings.

Yes. New Jersey has no special rule for attorneys — they qualify the same way any New Jersey resident individual does, under § 42:2C-14(c).

You have to name one upfront. The Certificate of Formation, under §§ 42:2C-14 and 42:2C-18, requires the registered agent's name and New Jersey street address before the state will file it.

New Jersey's annual report asks for both separately — your registered office is specifically where your registered agent is maintained, while your principal or main business office is wherever you actually run the company and does not have to be in New Jersey at all.

Not reliably. A registered agent must be reachable to personally accept service of process at the registered office, and a commercial mailbox service does not meet that standard any better than a P.O. box alone does.

Yes, for state notices. New Jersey's online business filing portal requires an email address for the registered agent so the state can send compliance notices — separate from whether that email appears on a public search.

Yes. Nothing in § 42:2C-14 or N.J.S.A. 14A:4-1 prevents an owner, member, manager or officer from also serving as the entity's registered agent, as long as they meet the residency or authority requirement.

No. New Jersey has no licensing or bonding requirement specific to registered agents — an individual just needs to be a New Jersey resident, and a company needs authority to transact business in the state.

No. Section 42:2C-14(c) requires an individual registered agent to be a New Jersey resident; owning New Jersey property does not satisfy that requirement if you personally live elsewhere.

No. The role itself is titled "office and agent for service of process" under § 42:2C-14 — authority to sign contracts or bind the company comes from your operating agreement and management structure, not the registered agent designation.

Yes. Section 42:2C-14(a)(1) says the registered office "need not be a place of its activity" — meaning it is allowed to be the same as your principal place of business, not required to differ.

Yes. Both the corporation and nonprofit annual-report statutes, N.J.S.A. 14A:4-5 and 15A:4-5, require stating the current registered agent's name, and New Jersey's online Annual Report filing includes a "Change Registered Agent/Office" option right in that same form.

File the missing annual reports with a current registered agent, and pay the outstanding fees, under N.J.S.A. 14A:4-5. Entities that reinstate within two years of revocation skip the tax clearance certificate that's otherwise required; those revoked longer need one.

Not anymore. New Jersey's business filings, including registered agent changes, go through the Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services at the Department of the Treasury — not a Secretary of State's office, which is why searching for "New Jersey Secretary of State business search" leads to Treasury's portal instead.