Updated September 3, 2026. Quick answer: Maryland permits it, in both directions, under Md. Code Ann., Corps. & Ass’ns § 4A-1101. The statute calls the mechanism conversion, not domestication: Maryland’s ‘other entity’ definition expressly names foreign limited liability companies and other-state unincorporated business forms, so a Maryland LLC converting into an out-of-state LLC is squarely covered by the text, not merely inferred. Filing is Articles of Conversion with the Maryland SDAT; the outbound-only base fee is $100.
The statute, and why Maryland gets miscounted
§ 4A-1101(a) defines ‘other entity’ for the subtitle and names, at (a)(7), ‘a foreign limited liability company,’ and at (a)(6), ‘another form of unincorporated business formed under the laws of … another state of the United States, a territory, possession, or district of the United States, or a foreign country.’ This is the exact definitional test the domestication trap turns on, and Maryland clears it in plain statutory text rather than by inference. Subsection (b) then provides: ‘Unless otherwise agreed, a limited liability company may convert to an other entity by (1) Approving the conversion in accordance with § 4A-1102 …; and (2) Filing for record with the Department articles of conversion.’ § 4A-1103(c)(5) separately requires the articles to state the resulting entity’s principal-office location and a Maryland resident agent whenever the other entity is not organized under Maryland law.
What the filing costs
Articles of Conversion filed with the Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation (SDAT). Outbound (Maryland LLC converting to an out-of-state entity): base fee $100: no Maryland formation document is filed since the resulting entity isn’t a Maryland LLC. Inbound is $300 total, because Articles of Organization ($200) must be filed alongside the Articles of Conversion ($100). Expedited service $150 total, rush/same-day $525 total (outbound base). Paper filing only.
That is the entity-law filing fee only. It is not the cost of leaving, and anyone who tells you the cost of leaving Maryland is a filing fee is selling something.
The part this page does not answer
The reason people search for this is usually not the filing. It is the tax exposure: what Maryland’s own revenue agency does when you leave, whether a final return is due, and whether the state agrees the entity has actually stopped doing business there. Those questions are governed by Maryland tax law and administrative practice, not by the entity-law citation above, and this cluster does not source them. We have the entity-law answer at primary and the tax answer not at all.
Two things worth knowing even so, both the general shape rather than a state-specific finding: changing the entity’s state of organization does not by itself end an obligation to register as a foreign LLC anywhere you still do business, and a state’s revenue department is a separate counterparty from its filing office. If you are moving to cut a tax bill, the entity move is the easy half.
This page sells nothing and links to no filing service. Moving an LLC is a filing-desk task with a statutory answer, and the answer is either in your two states’ codes or it is not.
Check both ends of the move, not just the destination
A move needs two things to be true: your destination has to let the entity in, and your current state has to let it out. Nine states have no statutory route out, so an LLC formed in one of them cannot domesticate anywhere, however welcoming the destination is. That is where most published advice goes wrong; it checks one end.
| State you would be leaving | Why there is no route out | What the code offers instead |
|---|---|---|
| Delaware | the statute affirmatively limits it | 6 Del. C. § 18-209 |
| Kentucky | nothing in the code permits it | KRS 275.345 to 275.365 |
| Massachusetts | the statute affirmatively limits it | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 156C, § 59(b) |
| Missouri | nothing in the code permits it | Mo. Rev. Stat. §§ 347.127 to 347.135 |
| New Mexico | nothing in the code permits it | NMSA 1978 § 53-19-62 |
| New York | nothing in the code permits it | NY LLC Law § 1001(b), certificate of merger under § 1003 |
| South Carolina | the statute affirmatively limits it | S.C. Code Ann. § 33-44-904 |
| Washington | the statute affirmatively limits it | RCW 25.15.416 to 25.15.431 |
| West Virginia | nothing in the code permits it | W. Va. Code § 31B-9-904, articles of merger under § 31B-9-905 |
Delaware is the surprise on that list and it is not a mistake; see the Delaware page. For the other eight, the substitute is a merger, not a dissolution: form the new entity in the destination state and merge the old one into it. Merger produces a surviving entity rather than a continuation, so it is genuinely not the same thing as domestication, but it keeps far more alive than dissolving does.
The full 51-jurisdiction table is on the domestication states list; the three routes are compared on how to move an LLC to another state.
Sources
Every row on this page is statutory text. No formation service, no registered-agent marketing page and no aggregator is cited anywhere in this cluster; those are the only publishers of the competing versions.
- Maryland: https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Statute_Web/gca/4a-1101.pdf. Statutory text, Dataset source (mgaleg.maryland.gov PDF, /Statute_Web/gca/ article route) reached again on 2026-09-03, but the PDF’s text could not be read. Cross-checked via WebSearch, which surfaced law.justia.com and lawserver.com mirrors quoting § 4A-1101’s ‘other entity’ definition, matching the dataset’s direct quotes..