CT registered agent
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Connecticut requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Connecticut law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Connecticut requires of a registered agent
The requirement
A corporation must continuously maintain a registered office and a registered agent at that office; the agent may be a resident natural person, a domestic corporation, an authorized foreign corporation, a domestic or registered foreign LLC, a domestic or authorized foreign registered LLP, or a domestic or registered foreign statutory trust. The LLC act mirrors this list (§ 34-243n(b)) and adds that the agent must have a place of business in the state (§ 34-243n(e)). A foreign corporation or foreign LLC may instead appoint the Secretary of the State as its agent (§ 33-660(b); § 34-243n(c)(1)).
(1) A registered office that may be the same as any of its places of business; and (2) a registered agent at such registered office, who may be: (A) A natural person who is a resident of this state; (B) a domestic corporation; (C) a foreign corporation which has procured a certificate of authority to transact business or conduct its affairs in this state; (D) a domestic limited liability company; (E) a limited liability company not organized under the laws of this state and which has procured a certificate of registration ...; (F) a domestic registered limited liability partnership; ... (H) a domestic statutory trust ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-660(a); accord § 34-243n(b), (e) (LLCs)
How we comply
We don't.
What Connecticut 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
Corporation: if the Secretary of the State learns a corporation has failed to maintain a registered agent (or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the address of record), the Secretary notifies the corporation by electronic mail; unless it files an appointment of registered agent within three months, the Secretary files a certificate of administrative dissolution.
Whenever it comes to the attention of the Secretary of the State that a corporation has failed to maintain a registered agent or that such registered agent cannot, with reasonable diligence, be found at the address shown in the records of his office, the Secretary of the State may notify such corporation ... Unless the corporation within three months of the mailing of such notice files an appointment of registered agent, the Secretary of the State shall prepare and file in his office a certificate of administrative dissolution stating that the delinquent corporation has been administratively dissolved by reason of its default.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-890(c); effect: § 33-891
Administrative dissolution
LLC: parallel 'dissolution by forfeiture' - a delinquent LLC that has failed to maintain a registered agent gets electronic-mail notice; unless it files an appointment of a registered agent within three months, the Secretary files a certificate of dissolution by forfeiture. The dissolved LLC continues only to wind up or apply for reinstatement.
Whenever it comes to the attention of the Secretary of the State that a delinquent limited liability company has failed to maintain a registered agent for service ... Unless the limited liability company, within three months of the sending of such notice, files an appointment of a registered agent for service, the Secretary of the State shall prepare and file in his office a certificate of dissolution by forfeiture stating that the delinquent limited liability company has been dissolved by forfeiture by reason of its default.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 34-267g(c); effect: § 34-267g(f)
Revocation (foreign entities)
Foreign corporation: being without a registered agent or registered office for 60 days or more (or failing to notify the Secretary of an agent change/resignation within 60 days) is a ground to revoke its certificate of authority to transact business.
The Secretary of the State may commence a proceeding under section 33-936 to revoke the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state if: ... (3) the foreign corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for sixty days or more; (4) the foreign corporation does not inform the Secretary of the State ... that its registered agent or registered office has changed, that its registered agent has resigned or that its registered office has been discontinued within sixty days of the change, resignation or discontinuance ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-935
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
Reinstatement after administrative dissolution requires payment of all penalties and forfeitures plus a reinstatement fee ($150 corporate application for reinstatement, § 33-617(a)(15); $120 LLC certificate of reinstatement, § 34-243u(a)(11)), a current annual report, tax-clearance statements (corporations), and an appointment of a registered agent.
The application must: ... (3) be accompanied by: (A) Payment of all penalties and forfeitures incurred by the corporation and a reinstatement fee; (B) an annual report for the current year; (C) an up-to-date statement or statements from the Commissioner of Revenue Services and the administrator of the unemployment compensation law ...; and (D) an appointment of a registered agent.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-892(a); fees: § 33-617(a)(15), § 34-243u(a)(11); LLC: § 34-267b(b)(3)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
No court order needed: if the entity has no registered agent, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the corporation may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the secretary of the corporation at its principal office (LLCs: addressed to the company at its principal office, or by similar commercial delivery service). Service is effective at the earliest of receipt, the signed return-receipt date, or five days after deposit in the mail.
If a corporation has no registered agent, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the corporation may be served by any proper officer or other person lawfully empowered to make service by sending a true and attested copy of the process, notice or demand by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the secretary of the corporation at its principal office. Service is effective under this subsection at the earliest of: (1) The date the corporation receives the mail; (2) the date shown on the return receipt, if signed on behalf of the corporation; or (3) five days after its deposit in the United States mail ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-663(b); accord § 34-243r(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.