Updated September 6, 2026. Quick answer: In Mississippi, this role is called a registered agent, governed by Mississippi’s LLC registered-agent rules, as stated on the Mississippi Secretary of State’s own Registered Agents page. Mississippi is the only one of the states compared here with a formally two-tiered agent system in its own statute name; a separately state-registered, $100-fee ‘Commercial Registered Agent’ category alongside an unregistered ‘Noncommercial’ one.
What the address rule requires
Mississippi’s own Secretary of State page states directly: “Any individual, corporation or LLC may act as registered agent for any Mississippi company provided the agent has a physical address in the state of Mississippi.”
Who can serve as your registered agent
An individual Mississippi resident, a domestic corporation, nonprofit, or LLC, or a foreign corporation, nonprofit, or LLC authorized to transact business in Mississippi. Mississippi formally distinguishes Commercial Registered Agents, who must register with the state for a $100 fee, from Noncommercial Registered Agents, who need not separately register and are not listed publicly.
What happens if you don’t have one
A resigning agent must give 30 days’ notice, with resignation effective on the earlier of the 31st day after filing or a successor’s appointment. If the LLC then fails to designate a new agent, service defaults to the Secretary of State; separately, if the LLC’s governors cannot be served either, service also falls to the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State may begin administrative dissolution if the LLC is without a registered agent for 60 or more days, or fails to notify the state within 60 days of an agent change or resignation.
How to change your registered agent
$100.00 to register as a Commercial Registered Agent with the state; a separate change-of-agent filing observed in actual Secretary of State filing records carried a $50 fee. (source: Mississippi Secretary of State, official Registered Agents page and filing portal records)
A note on sourcing: The physical-address requirement and the Commercial/Noncommercial distinction were confirmed directly from a live Mississippi Secretary of State page. The underlying codified section numbers (Miss. Code Ann. Sections 79-29-113, 79-35-13, 79-29-821) could not be fetched directly this session (Justia returned 403s and the Secretary of State’s own PDF was unreadable binary), so this page names the agency source rather than an unconfirmed section number.
| Citation | Mississippi’s LLC registered-agent rules, as stated on the Mississippi Secretary of State’s own Registered Agents page |
| Confidence | Medium |
This page covers what Mississippi’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.