Updated September 3, 2026. Quick answer: Utah permits it, in both directions, under Utah Code § 48-3a-1051(1), conditioned on the destination jurisdiction’s law authorizing the domestication. The filing fee is a flat $17. This page covers the entity-law half only. One freshness note worth flagging: the currently-effective citation is scheduled to be repealed and recodified into a new title within weeks of this page going live.
What Utah’s statute actually says
Section 48-3a-1051(1) reads: ‘By complying with Sections 48-3a-1051 through 48-3a-1056, a domestic limited liability company may become a foreign limited liability company if the domestication is authorized by the law of the foreign jurisdiction,’ a standard reciprocity condition running against the destination state’s law, confirmed verbatim on a direct re-fetch of Utah’s official code PDF this session. That same official PDF is stamped ‘Repealed 10/1/2026’ with a footer reading ‘Repealed by Chapter 93, 2026 General Session; Enacted by Chapter 412, 2013 General Session.’ This was not in the original dataset (retrieved 2026-08-12) and is a genuinely new finding from this session: Utah’s 2026 S.B. 40, ‘Business Entity Amendments,’ recodifies the LLC Act out of Title 48, Chapter 3a into a new Title 16, Chapter 20, effective October 1, 2026. Other sections in the same bill renumber directly (e.g., 48-3a-201 becomes 16-20-201), so the domestication provisions almost certainly move with the rest of the chapter, but the exact new section number for domestication specifically was not confirmed this session and is not asserted as fact. As of today, 2026-09-03, and through the effective date of the underlying page, 48-3a-1051 is the correct, currently-effective citation and the $17 fee is current.
What the filing costs
Outbound, a Utah LLC files a Statement of Domestication with the Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code. The Division’s current form (llcartdomestication.pdf) states a flat ‘Non-Refundable Processing Fee: $17.00’; the Division’s Fiscal Year 2026 fee schedule confirms the same figure under ‘Merger/Conversion/Domestication/Transfer, $17,’ not direction-specific.
That is the entity-law filing fee only. It is not the cost of leaving, and anyone who tells you the cost of leaving Utah 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 Utah’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 Utah 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 move-to-another-state guide, which covers Delaware’s route directly. 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.
- Utah: https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title48/Chapter3A/C48-3a-S1051_1800010118000101.pdf. Statutory text, independently re-verified 2026-09-03, matches dataset text verbatim; also surfaced an imminent recodification not present in the original dataset.