AZ registered agent
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Arizona requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Arizona law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Arizona requires of a registered agent
The requirement
Arizona uses the term 'statutory agent.' A corporation must continuously maintain a known place of business and a statutory agent who may be an Arizona-resident individual, a domestic corporation, an authorized foreign corporation, an Arizona LLC, or an authorized foreign LLC. For LLCs, ARS 29-3115(B) requires the agent to have a place of business or residence in Arizona and allows the same five categories.
Each corporation shall continuously maintain in this state both: 1. A known place of business that may be the address of its statutory agent. 2. A statutory agent who may be either: (a) An individual who resides in this state. (b) A domestic corporation formed under this title. (c) A foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state. (d) A limited liability company formed under title 29. (e) A limited liability company authorized to transact business in this state.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-501 (corporations); § 29-3115(B) (LLCs)
How we comply
We don't.
What Arizona does to your company when we don't
Here is what the state does to an entity that has no agent, or whose agent is us.
Administrative dissolution
The Arizona Corporation Commission may administratively dissolve a corporation that is without a statutory agent or known place of business for 60 days or more, or that fails to notify the commission of an agent change or resignation within 60 days (60-day cure window after notice). LLC parallel: no statutory agent for at least 60 consecutive days, or failure to notify within 60 days (29-3708(A)(2), (4)).
The commission may commence a proceeding under section 10-1421 to administratively dissolve a corporation if either: ... 3. The corporation is without a statutory agent or known place of business in this state for sixty days or more. 4. The corporation does not notify the commission within sixty days that its statutory agent or known place of business has been changed, that its statutory agent has resigned or that its principal office has been discontinued.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-1420(3)-(4), § 10-1421; § 29-3708(A)(2), (4) (LLCs)
And also
Name loss: if a dissolved corporation (or LLC) has not applied for reinstatement within six months after the effective date of administrative dissolution, the commission releases the entity's name for use by others.
If the corporation has not applied for reinstatement within six months after the effective date of the dissolution, the commission shall release the corporate name for use in accordance with chapters 1 through 17 of this title or by a person intending to register the name as a trade name pursuant to title 44, chapter 10, article 3.1.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-1421(C); § 29-3709(B) (LLCs)
Revocation (foreign entities)
The commission may revoke a foreign corporation's authority to transact business if it is without a statutory agent or known place of business for 60 days or more, or fails to report an agent change or resignation within 60 days; on revocation the commission becomes the corporation's agent for service of process (10-1531(D)).
The commission may commence a proceeding under section 10-1531 to revoke the authority of a foreign corporation to transact business in this state if any of the following conditions exist: ... 3. The foreign corporation is without a statutory agent or known place of business in this state for sixty days or more. 4. The foreign corporation does not inform the commission that its statutory agent or known place of business has changed or that its statutory agent has resigned within sixty days after the change or resignation.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-1530(3)-(4); § 10-1531
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
Reinstatement is available within six years for both corporations (10-1422(A)) and LLCs (29-3709(A)); an LLC must pay all fees and penalties that were due at dissolution and that would have accrued during dissolution, plus a $100 reinstatement application fee (corporations pay the same $100 application fee under 10-122(A)(13)).
To be reinstated, a limited liability company must pay all fees and penalties that were due to the commission at the time of the company's administrative dissolution and all fees and penalties that would have been due to the commission while the company was administratively dissolved.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 29-3709(A), (E); § 10-1422(A); § 10-122(A)(13); § 29-3213(A)(12)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
Corporations: if the corporation fails to appoint or maintain a statutory agent at the address of record, the Arizona Corporation Commission is the corporation's agent for service; the commission forwards a copy to the known place of business and the corporation gets 30 extra days to respond. LLCs use a different fallback: service by registered or certified mail (or commercial delivery) to the company's principal address, and failing that, by handing a copy to the person in charge of any regular place of business (29-3119(B)-(C)).
If a corporation fails to appoint or maintain a statutory agent at the address shown on the records of the commission, the commission is an agent of the corporation on whom process, notice or demand may be served. ... the commission shall immediately cause one of the copies of the process, notice or demand to be forwarded by mail, addressed to the corporation at its known place of business. ... If service is made on the commission, whether under this chapter or a rule of court, the corporation has thirty days to respond in addition to the time otherwise provided by law.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 10-504(B) (corporations); § 29-3119(B)-(C) (LLCs)
Statutory text as captured by incFACTS (retrieved 2026-08-01, verified word-for-word against the state code 2026-08-10). Laws change. The statute governs; this page does not.