Updated September 6, 2026. Quick answer: In Indiana, this role is called a registered agent, governed by Ind. Code Title 23, Article 0.5, Chapter 4 (registered agent), as summarized on Indiana’s own Secretary of State guidance page. Indiana’s own official guidance states the entity cannot act as its own registered agent and may name only one agent at a time, a more restrictive combination than most peer states, though this rests on the state’s own explainer page rather than a directly confirmed statute quote.
What the address rule requires
Indiana’s own guidance states that the registered office address must be a street address, adding: “A P.O. Box number is not sufficient unless accompanied by a rural route reference.”
Who can serve as your registered agent
An individual Indiana resident whose business office matches the registered office; a domestic corporation or nonprofit; or a foreign corporation or nonprofit authorized to transact business in Indiana. Indiana’s official guidance states the entity cannot serve as its own registered agent and may have only one registered agent at a time.
What happens if you don’t have one
If an entity ceases to have a registered agent, or the agent cannot be served with reasonable diligence, the entity may be served by registered or certified mail or commercial delivery to its principal office. Not independently confirmed this session; Indiana’s codified statute text could not be reached (the state’s legislature site renders its code as a JavaScript application this session’s tools could not read).
How to change your registered agent
A statement of change of registered agent is filed with the Secretary of State; the official resignation form is State Form 26285. (source: Indiana Secretary of State, official registered-agent guidance page)
A note on sourcing: The physical-address rule and the ‘cannot be its own agent’ / ‘one agent only’ rules are drawn from Indiana’s own official government guidance page (in.gov), not a directly-read statute, because Indiana’s legislative code database served only a JavaScript shell this session with no extractable statute text; the specific administrative-dissolution consequence for a registered-agent lapse could not be confirmed at all and is omitted.
| Citation | Ind. Code Title 23, Article 0.5, Chapter 4 (registered agent), as summarized on Indiana’s own Secretary of State guidance page |
| Confidence | Medium |
This page covers what Indiana’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: Indiana’s LLC Certificate of Good Standing cost, including who issues it and how fast you can get one.