Hire a Registered Agent in Oregon

A registered agent is the person or company named to receive legal papers and official state mail for an Oregon entity, at a physical Oregon street address called the registered office. It is required by Oregon Revised Statutes § 63.111.

Yes. Every Oregon LLC, corporation and limited partnership must appoint and continuously maintain a registered agent under ORS 63.111, from the day it files its Articles of Organization.

Yes, if you reside in Oregon and your business office is the same as the registered office, where you can accept deliveries during normal business hours (ORS 63.111(2)). Many owners hire a service instead to keep that address off the public record.

No. ORS 63.111(1) requires the registered office to be a physical street address; a P.O. box, a commercial mail receiving agency, a mail forwarding business or a virtual office 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 Information Change form with the Oregon Secretary of State's Corporation Division. Oregon charges no fee for this filing, and it can be filed online through the Oregon Business Registry or by mail.

The Secretary of State mails a notice, and if the entity does not correct the problem within 45 days, the state administratively dissolves the entity under ORS 63.647 and ORS 63.651.

Yes. Oregon requires a registered agent to consent to serve, and a statement appointing or changing a registered agent must include that agent's consent under ORS 63.114.

Yes, as long as they reside in Oregon, their business office matches the registered office, they are available during business hours, and they consent to serve under ORS 63.111 and ORS 63.114.

Only if that company is itself authorized to transact business in Oregon and maintains a matching Oregon business office; an unauthorized out-of-state entity cannot serve as agent under ORS 63.111(2).

A registered agent's office is where process may be personally served on the entity under ORS 63.111; 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 Oregon Secretary of State and appear on its annual report.

Yes. A registered agent can file a signed statement of resignation with the Secretary of State under ORS 63.117, which starts a 31-day countdown for the entity to name a replacement before the appointment terminates.

Yes. The Annual Report, filed each year on the LLC's anniversary date for $100, must show the entity's current registered agent and registered office.

Yes, for every entity filed with the Oregon Secretary of State: LLCs, corporations, limited partnerships and most other registered entities must appoint one under ORS 63.111 or the equivalent statute for that entity type.

Yes. A foreign LLC must designate an Oregon registered agent and registered office before the Secretary of State will approve its Application for Authority to Transact Business under ORS 63.707, a $275 filing, and must keep that agent current under ORS 63.721.

No. Oregon's LLC Act, ORS chapter 63, has no series LLC provision, so there is no separate series-level registered agent requirement — the single registered agent named for the LLC as a whole covers it.

No. Oregon has no distinct "PLLC" entity or filing — an LLC rendering licensed professional services is formed under the same ORS chapter 63 provisions, marking the professional-services box under ORS 63.047(1)(g), and follows the identical registered agent rule in ORS 63.111 as any other LLC.

The resignation itself takes effect 31 days after it's filed. Under ORS 63.117, the agent delivers a signed statement of resignation to the Secretary of State and sends the LLC a copy, and the appointment ends on the 31st day after filing unless the LLC names a successor sooner.

The Secretary of State can accept service instead. ORS 63.121 makes the Secretary of State an agent for service whenever an LLC has no registered agent or the agent can't be found with reasonable diligence at the registered office, and a copy is then mailed to the LLC's last address on file.

Yes. ORS chapter 65 requires a nonprofit corporation to continuously maintain a registered agent with a physical Oregon office, the same rule as a business corporation — a P.O. box, commercial mail receiving agency or virtual office doesn't qualify.

Yes. ORS 70.025 requires every domestic LP, and every foreign LP doing business in Oregon, together with its general partners, to continuously maintain one registered agent amenable to service of process at that agent's Oregon business office.

Use the Secretary of State's free Business Registry Search ("Find a Business") at sos.oregon.gov. Searching by entity name or registry number returns the registered agent's name and Oregon address at no cost and without a login.

Not if you're keeping the same agent. The articles of conversion filed under ORS 63.470 name the converted entity's registered agent directly, so a separate statement of change is only needed if you're also switching to a new agent.

The Secretary of State can revoke it. Failing to continuously maintain a registered agent and registered office is a statutory ground for revocation of a foreign LLC's authority to transact business under ORS 63.737.

Yes. ORS 63.111 doesn't limit how many entities a single qualifying individual or business-entity agent can represent at once, as long as each appointment meets the residency/business-office rule — the Business Registry Search even lets you see which entities share an agent.

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 the attorney personally resides in Oregon with a business office identical to the registered office, or the firm itself is a qualifying Oregon business entity — the same eligibility rule under ORS 63.111 that applies to anyone else.

"Registered agent" is the term Oregon's own statutes use. ORS chapters 63, 65 and 70 all refer to a "registered agent" at a "registered office" — Oregon doesn't use alternate labels like "commercial registered office provider" that some other states' statutes use.

Oregon treats that like having no valid registered agent. Process can then be served on the Secretary of State under ORS 63.121, and if the entity doesn't fix its agent or office, the state mails a notice and administratively dissolves it within 45 days under ORS 63.647 and ORS 63.651.

You have to name one upfront. Under ORS 63.111, the articles of organization must state the initial registered agent's name and Oregon registered office address before the Secretary of State will file them — it can't be left blank and added afterward.

Your registered office is specifically where your registered agent accepts service of process and must be a physical Oregon street address; ORS 63.111 expressly says it "may be, but need not be," the same as any place where you actually run the business, which doesn't have to be in Oregon at all.

No. ORS 63.111 specifically excludes a commercial mail receiving agency, a mail forwarding business and a virtual office from qualifying as a registered office — it must be a real street address where the agent can be personally served.

No. Oregon's Business Registry Search and Annual Report list only the registered agent's name and Oregon street address — no phone number or email address is collected or published for that role.

No — they use the same Annual Report every other entity files, just at a lower fee: $50 for a nonprofit versus $100 for an LLC or corporation, due each year on the nonprofit's anniversary date and required to list the current registered agent and office.

Yes. Nothing in ORS 63.111 prevents an owner, manager or officer from also serving as the LLC's registered agent, as long as they're an Oregon resident whose business office matches the registered office.

No. ORS 63.111 imposes only the residency/business-office qualification on an individual agent, or that a business-entity agent be authorized to transact business in Oregon — there is no separate licensing or bonding regime for commercial registered agents.

No. ORS 63.111(2) requires an individual registered agent to reside in Oregon with a business office identical to the registered office — owning Oregon real estate doesn't satisfy that if you personally live elsewhere.

No. ORS 63.121 limits a registered agent's role to being the person upon whom process, notices and demands may be served — it grants no authority to sign contracts or otherwise act for the LLC.

Yes. ORS 63.111 doesn't require the two to be different, so a small business can use one Oregon street address for both, as long as it meets the registered office's physical-address and service rule.