Updated September 6, 2026. Quick answer: In Arkansas, this role is called a registered agent, governed by Ark. Code Section 4-38-115 (registered agent, place-of-business requirement). Arkansas charges no fee at all to change or resign a registered agent, and gives a 60-plus-60-day notice-and-cure runway before dissolution, the most generous combination among the states compared here.
What the address rule requires
Arkansas’s statute requires the registered agent to have a place of business in the state.
Who can serve as your registered agent
Arkansas’s statute requires the agent’s consent and a place of business in the state; commercial registered agents are addressed separately under the state’s Model Registered Agents Act.
What happens if you don’t have one
If there is no registered agent, or the agent cannot be served with reasonable diligence, Arkansas law allows service by registered or certified mail to a member or manager at the LLC’s principal office as shown on its most recent annual report. Arkansas gives a comparatively generous runway: the Secretary of State may begin administrative dissolution only after the LLC has gone without a registered agent for 60 consecutive days, and the LLC then has a further 60-day cure period after notice before dissolution is finalized.
How to change your registered agent
No fee to file a statement of change of registered agent, and no fee for the agent’s own statement of resignation. (source: Arkansas Secretary of State, official LLC fee schedule)
A note on sourcing: Section 4-38-115’s place-of-business language was fetched directly from Justia’s mirror of the Arkansas Code (200, on retry after an initial block). The 60-plus-60-day dissolution mechanic and the mail-to-principal-office default (Sections 4-38-708 and 4-38-116) come from a search-indexed reproduction only; this session could not get a clean direct fetch of those two specific sections (repeated 403s from every route tried), so those two mechanics are reported without a citation number on the page itself. The fee schedule was fetched and read directly.
| Citation | Ark. Code Section 4-38-115 (registered agent, place-of-business requirement) |
| Confidence | Medium |
This page covers what Arkansas’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: Arkansas’s LLC Certificate of Good Standing cost, including who issues it and how fast you can get one.