Updated September 3, 2026. Quick answer: Ohio permits it, in both directions, under Ohio Rev. Code § 1706.72(A); but the word ‘domestication’ does not appear anywhere in Ohio’s LLC Act. The function lives inside the generic ‘Conversion’ provisions and only becomes visible once you trace Ohio’s own definitions: the Act defines ‘limited liability company’ as Ohio-domestic-only, so ‘an entity other than a limited liability company’ reaches a foreign LLC by exclusion, not by name. The filing fee could not be confirmed on an official state page. This page covers the entity-law half only.
The statute, and why Ohio gets miscounted
Ohio Rev. Code § 1706.01 defines ‘Limited liability company’ as, except in the phrase ‘foreign limited liability company,’ ‘an entity formed or existing under this chapter’: Ohio-domestic only. Section 1706.72(A) then permits ‘an entity other than a limited liability company’ to convert to an LLC, and ‘a limited liability company’ to convert to ‘an entity other than a limited liability company,’ subject to a reciprocity condition that the law of both jurisdictions not prohibit the conversion. Because the Act’s own vocabulary excludes foreign LLCs from the term ‘limited liability company,’ an Ohio LLC converting into a foreign LLC falls under the outbound half of that same clause, even though the statute never uses the word ‘domestication.’ Procedure runs through §§ 1706.721–.722: member consent to a written declaration of conversion, then a filed certificate of conversion.
What the filing costs
Outbound, an Ohio LLC’s members consent to a written declaration of conversion under § 1706.721, then a certificate of conversion is filed with the Ohio Secretary of State under § 1706.722, stating the LLC’s conversion, the name/form/jurisdiction of the converted entity, its effective date under the destination entity’s own governing statute, and confirmation the conversion was approved under both Ohio law and the destination entity’s law. The filing fee (Ohio SOS Form 700) could not be confirmed on an official Ohio Secretary of State page this session or in the original research pass: ohiosos.gov returns HTTP 403 to every automated fetch attempted. Secondary, non-primary sources put the figure at $99, but per this project’s primary-source-or-omit rule, that number is not asserted here as a confirmed fact.
That is the entity-law filing fee only. It is not the cost of leaving, and anyone who tells you the cost of leaving Ohio is a filing fee is selling something.
The part this page does not answer
The reason people search for this is usually not the filing. It is the tax exposure: what Ohio’s own revenue agency does when you leave, whether a final return is due, and whether the state agrees the entity has actually stopped doing business there. Those questions are governed by Ohio tax law and administrative practice, not by the entity-law citation above, and this cluster does not source them. We have the entity-law answer at primary and the tax answer not at all.
Two things worth knowing even so, both the general shape rather than a state-specific finding: changing the entity’s state of organization does not by itself end an obligation to register as a foreign LLC anywhere you still do business, and a state’s revenue department is a separate counterparty from its filing office. If you are moving to cut a tax bill, the entity move is the easy half.
This page sells nothing and links to no filing service. Moving an LLC is a filing-desk task with a statutory answer, and the answer is either in your two states’ codes or it is not.
Check both ends of the move, not just the destination
A move needs two things to be true: your destination has to let the entity in, and your current state has to let it out. Nine states have no statutory route out, so an LLC formed in one of them cannot domesticate anywhere, however welcoming the destination is. That is where most published advice goes wrong; it checks one end.
| State you would be leaving | Why there is no route out | What the code offers instead |
|---|---|---|
| Delaware | the statute affirmatively limits it | 6 Del. C. § 18-209 |
| Kentucky | nothing in the code permits it | KRS 275.345 to 275.365 |
| Massachusetts | the statute affirmatively limits it | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 156C, § 59(b) |
| Missouri | nothing in the code permits it | Mo. Rev. Stat. §§ 347.127 to 347.135 |
| New Mexico | nothing in the code permits it | NMSA 1978 § 53-19-62 |
| New York | nothing in the code permits it | NY LLC Law § 1001(b), certificate of merger under § 1003 |
| South Carolina | the statute affirmatively limits it | S.C. Code Ann. § 33-44-904 |
| Washington | the statute affirmatively limits it | RCW 25.15.416 to 25.15.431 |
| West Virginia | nothing in the code permits it | W. Va. Code § 31B-9-904, articles of merger under § 31B-9-905 |
Delaware is the surprise on that list and it is not a mistake; see the Delaware page. For the other eight, the substitute is a merger, not a dissolution: form the new entity in the destination state and merge the old one into it. Merger produces a surviving entity rather than a continuation, so it is genuinely not the same thing as domestication, but it keeps far more alive than dissolving does.
The full 51-jurisdiction table is on the domestication states list; the three routes are compared on how to move an LLC to another state.
Sources
Every row on this page is statutory text. No formation service, no registered-agent marketing page and no aggregator is cited anywhere in this cluster; those are the only publishers of the competing versions.
- Ohio: https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-1706.72. Statutory text, independently re-verified 2026-09-03, matches dataset on statute text; fee remains unconfirmed at official tier both times.