Updated September 6, 2026. Quick answer: In Maine, this role is called a registered agent, governed by 31 M.R.S. Section 1661 (registered agent required), 5 M.R.S. Section 105 (Model Registered Agents Act appointment), 31 M.R.S. Sections 1591-1592 (administrative dissolution). Maine is the only one of the states compared here whose registered-agent regime is not contained in its own LLC Act at all, but governed by a separate, cross-cutting Model Registered Agents Act shared with other entity types, and it explicitly allows self-service via an office title rather than a named person.
What the address rule requires
Maine’s LLC statute cross-references the state’s separate Model Registered Agents Act for the address and eligibility rules rather than restating them in the LLC Act itself.
Who can serve as your registered agent
If the entity has no commercial registered agent, it may designate its own noncommercial registered agent, which can be the title of an office or position with the entity rather than a specific named individual, so long as service of process is directed to whoever holds that role; any properly listed commercial registered agent, in-state or out-of-state, may also serve.
What happens if you don’t have one
Lacking a registered agent as required by the LLC Act and the Model Registered Agents Act is itself a listed ground for administrative dissolution. The Secretary of State sends written notice of the lapse, the LLC has 60 days to cure it, and administrative dissolution follows if it remains uncured.
How to change your registered agent
Maine folded its standalone LLC-Act change-of-agent provision (former Section 1315) into the state’s cross-cutting Model Registered Agents Act; that provision was directly confirmed as repealed. A specific current filing fee under the Model Registered Agents Act was not independently confirmed this session.
A note on sourcing: The core LLC Act citation (Section 1661) and the repeal of the old change-of-agent provision (Section 1315) were fetched and confirmed directly; the specific current filing mechanism and fee under the Model Registered Agents Act itself were not independently confirmed this session and are omitted rather than guessed.
| Citation | 31 M.R.S. Section 1661 (registered agent required), 5 M.R.S. Section 105 (Model Registered Agents Act appointment), 31 M.R.S. Sections 1591-1592 (administrative dissolution) |
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This page covers what Maine’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: Maine’s LLC Certificate of Good Standing cost, including who issues it and how fast you can get one.