Arizona Registered Agent Requirements for an LLC

Updated September 6, 2026. Quick answer: In Arizona, this role is called a statutory agent, governed by A.R.S. Section 29-3115 (statutory agent), Section 29-3116 (change), Sections 29-3708 and 29-3910 (administrative dissolution/revocation). Arizona calls this role a ‘statutory agent,’ not a ‘registered agent,’ and its own change filing is the cheapest of any state compared here, at $5, but a second, separate acceptance filing from the new agent is mandatory before the change takes effect.

What the address rule requires

Arizona’s statute requires the agent to have a place of business or residence in the state; the Corporation Commission’s own change-form instructions distinguish a required street/physical address for the agent from an optional separate mailing address, which may be a P.O. box.

Who can serve as your registered agent

An individual Arizona resident, a domestic corporation or LLC, or a foreign corporation or LLC authorized to transact business in Arizona.

What happens if you don’t have one

Arizona’s statute does not provide for the Secretary of State or Corporation Commission to become the LLC’s default agent; the consequence of lacking one runs to administrative dissolution or revocation (below). Arizona’s own change-form instructions state directly that failure to maintain a statutory agent “will subject the LLC to being administratively dissolved,” citing A.R.S. Sections 29-3708 and 29-3910. No specific day-count is stated in the material fetched this session.

How to change your registered agent

$5.00 to file the change form itself (the cheapest among the states compared here), plus optional expedite fees of $35 to $400; the new statutory agent must separately file its own Statutory Agent Acceptance form or the change is not effective. (source: Arizona Corporation Commission, official change-of-statutory-agent form instructions)

This page covers what Arizona’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.