Updated September 6, 2026. Quick answer: In Kansas, this role is called a resident agent, governed by K.S.A. 17-7925 (resident agent requirement), 17-7929 (resignation/succession). Kansas explicitly allows the LLC to name itself as its own resident agent, one of only a few of the states compared here to do so by name in the statute, and it uses ‘forfeiture’ rather than ‘dissolution’ as its own term for the ultimate consequence.
What the address rule requires
Kansas requires the resident agent to maintain a business office identical with the registered office, generally open, with an individual agent generally present at a designated location during business hours to accept service of process.
Who can serve as your registered agent
The LLC itself; an individual resident in Kansas; a domestic Kansas corporation, limited liability partnership, LLC, or business trust; or a foreign corporation, limited liability partnership, LLC, or business trust.
What happens if you don’t have one
A resident agent may resign on 30 days’ notice to the entity, effective on a further 30-day delay. If the entity has not designated a successor within 60 days after the resignation is filed, the Secretary of State declares the entity’s organizing documents forfeited, after which process is served on the Secretary of State. Forfeiture of the LLC’s organizing documents by the Secretary of State, effectively an administrative dissolution, after the 60-day cure window following an agent’s resignation lapses uncured.
How to change your registered agent
$35.00 on Form RGO (Certificate of Amendment) for a single LLC or other for-profit business ($20 for a nonprofit, $150 for a bulk/multiple-business filing); free if only the registered office’s suite number is changing. (source: Kansas Secretary of State, official Form RGO fee schedule)
| Citation | K.S.A. 17-7925 (resident agent requirement), 17-7929 (resignation/succession) |
| Confidence | High |
This page covers what Kansas’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: Kansas’s LLC Certificate of Good Standing cost, including who issues it and how fast you can get one.