Updated September 6, 2026. Quick answer: In Georgia, this role is called a registered agent, governed by O.C.G.A. Section 14-11-209 (domestic LLC registered office/agent). Georgia’s Secretary-of-State-becomes-agent default triggers immediately upon a lapse, rather than after a notice-and-cure period, the most automatic mechanism found among the states compared here.
What the address rule requires
Georgia’s statute requires the registered agent’s business office address to be identical to the registered office address; this session could not confirm an explicit ‘no P.O. box’ clause in the specific statutory text retrieved.
Who can serve as your registered agent
An individual resident of Georgia, a corporation, another LLC, or a foreign corporation or LLC with a certificate of authority to transact business in Georgia.
What happens if you don’t have one
Georgia’s statute states that whenever an LLC fails to appoint or maintain a registered agent, the Secretary of State becomes an agent of the LLC upon whom process, notice, or demand may be served; an immediate, automatic default confirmed consistently across two independent legal-database reproductions of the statute’s text. Not independently confirmed this session; Georgia’s own site was unreachable, so no specific dissolution timeline is reported here beyond the immediate Secretary-of-State default above.
How to change your registered agent
Georgia’s own fee schedule and forms could not be fetched this session (every attempt to reach sos.ga.gov and its linked PDFs was blocked); a specific dollar figure is not reported here.
A note on sourcing: Georgia’s own government sites (sos.ga.gov and all linked forms) returned a Cloudflare bot-challenge block on every attempt this session. The statute text above is corroborated across two independent legal-database mirrors (Onecle and FindLaw) that reproduce the codified language and agree with each other, but neither is a state-hosted source; the fee amount and a specific dissolution timeline could not be confirmed at all and are omitted rather than guessed.
| Citation | O.C.G.A. Section 14-11-209 (domestic LLC registered office/agent) |
| Confidence | Medium |
This page covers what Georgia’s own law requires. For the general question of whether you should pay a commercial service or serve as your own agent, see registered agent: do you actually need to pay for one.
Every citation on this page was read directly from the state’s own statute, Secretary of State site, or official filing form this session (or, where that site could not be reached, from an independently cross-checked legal-database mirror of the same codified text, disclosed below). General information, not legal advice; fees and specific procedures can change, and your state’s Secretary of State has the final say for any individual filing.
Related: Georgia’s LLC Certificate of Good Standing cost, including who issues it and how fast you can get one.