Updated September 6, 2026. Quick answer: In Nebraska, this role is called an agent for service of process (Nebraska’s Uniform LLC Act does not use “registered agent”; forms/plain-language guidance from the Secretary of State refer to it as “registered agent”), governed by Nebraska Revised Statutes Section 21-113 (office and agent for service of process), Section 21-114 (change of designated office or agent for service of process), Section 21-115 (resignation of agent for service of process), and Section 21-151 (grounds for administrative dissolution). Unlike Hawaii, Montana, Nevada, and New Hampshire, Nebraska’s administrative-dissolution statute (21-151) does not list “no registered agent” as a standalone ground for dissolution; the risk instead runs through missed biennial reports (which the agent would normally be notified of), making Nebraska’s compliance exposure structurally different from its neighbors.
What the address rule requires
Not explicitly quoted from a fetched source this session; Section 21-113 requires the LLC to designate and continuously maintain an office in the state (which need not be a place of its activity) and an agent for service of process at that or another Nebraska address, but the statute text obtained did not spell out a P.O.-box exclusion in so many words.
Who can serve as your registered agent
An individual who is a resident of Nebraska, or another person (including an entity) with authority to transact business in Nebraska. The Secretary of State’s own guidance states the agent may be a member of the LLC or a designated third party who resides in Nebraska.
What happens if you don’t have one
Not confirmed from a source fetched this session; the specific Nebraska provision for substituted or default service when an LLC has no agent (or the agent cannot be found) could not be located this session. Notably, lacking a registered agent is not itself listed among Nebraska’s statutory grounds for administrative dissolution under Section 21-151; only failure to pay fees/taxes/penalties within 60 days of the due date, and failure to deliver the biennial report within 60 days of the due date, are named grounds. Administrative dissolution, once triggered on those grounds, follows a 60-day cure period after the Secretary of State’s notice.
How to change your registered agent
$30 for in-office filing or $25 for online filing of the Statement of Change of Designated Office, Registered Agent and/or Registered Agent’s Address. (source: Nebraska Secretary of State, Corporations/Business Services fee information (referenced from the official change-of-agent form and forms-and-fee-information page))
A note on sourcing: The physical-address rule and the default-service-when-no-agent-exists mechanism could not be confirmed from any source fetched this session (multiple targeted searches and direct fetches of candidate sections, including 21-117, did not surface them), so those two points are omitted/marked unconfirmed rather than stated as fact; all other Nebraska facts were confirmed via a direct fetch of official nebraskalegislature.gov and sos.nebraska.gov pages.
This page covers what Nebraska’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: Nebraska’s LLC Certificate of Good Standing cost, including who issues it and how fast you can get one.