Updated September 6, 2026. Quick answer: In Utah, this role is called a registered agent, governed by Utah Code Section 48-3a-111 (duty to designate/maintain a registered agent, cross-referencing Title 16-17), Section 16-17-202 (address requirement), Section 16-17-206 (change of agent by entity), Section 16-17-301 (service if no agent), Section 48-3a-708(1)(c) (60 consecutive days without an agent is a ground for administrative dissolution). Utah just folded its LLC-specific registered-agent rules into a single cross-entity chapter (Title 16-17, the ‘Model Registered Agents Act’); and that whole chapter is itself being repealed and renumbered again effective October 1, 2026, just weeks after this research. Utah also lets an LLC designate a bare office or position title (e.g., ‘the Manager’) as its registered agent rather than a named person.
What the address rule requires
Per Utah Code Section 16-17-202, any address stated in a registered-agent filing must be ‘an actual street address or rural route box number in this state,’ plus a Utah mailing address if different; a bare P.O. box alone does not qualify.
Who can serve as your registered agent
Per Sections 16-17-203/204, the agent may be a listed commercial registered agent, a named ‘noncommercial registered agent’ (any individual or entity with a Utah address that has consented), or simply ‘the title of an office or other position with the entity,’ letting the LLC designate a role (e.g., ‘the Manager’) rather than a specific named person.
What happens if you don’t have one
Per Section 16-17-301, if the LLC has no agent on file or the agent can’t be served with reasonable diligence, service shifts to certified/registered mail addressed to the LLC’s governors at its principal office (per its most recent annual report), and failing that, to personal service on the manager/clerk in charge of a place of business; Utah’s Title 16-17 does not name the Division as a direct default agent the way some states name their Secretary of State. Per Utah Code Section 48-3a-708(1)(c) and (2)-(3), lacking a registered agent for 60 consecutive days is a ground for administrative dissolution; the Division must first serve notice, and if the LLC doesn’t cure or disprove the ground within 60 days of that notice, the Division administratively dissolves it; roughly 120 days total from the start of the lapse.
How to change your registered agent
$17.00 general ‘Change form’ fee; a separate $52.00 fee applies only when a commercial registered agent updates its own information across all represented entities; a $75 expedite fee is optional. (source: Utah Department of Commerce, Division of Corporations & Commercial Code, official Fiscal Year 2026 Fee Schedule (effective July 1, 2025))
This page covers what Utah’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: Utah’s LLC Certificate of Good Standing cost, including who issues it and how fast you can get one.