Updated August 24, 2026. Quick answer: Alaska does not use the word “revoked” for an LLC that misses its biennial report. It uses involuntary dissolution, and the mechanics under AS 10.50.408 are specific. Once the commissioner issues a certificate of involuntary dissolution, the company’s name becomes available to any other filer after just six months, even though the company itself gets a full two years to apply for reinstatement. Reinstating is not simply paying what was owed: the statute requires double the amount delinquent, plus everything that would have accrued during the dissolved period. And nowhere in the section does the legislature say reinstatement relates back to erase the gap, a question several neighboring states answer directly and Alaska does not.
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What actually triggers an involuntary dissolution
The commissioner of the Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing can dissolve an Alaska LLC involuntarily on four grounds: six months of delinquency on the biennial report, a fee, or a penalty; 30 days without a registered agent; 30 days without filing a change to the registered agent’s information; or a material misrepresentation in a filing. The one that catches ordinary owners is the first.
“the company is delinquent six months in filing its biennial report or in paying a fee or a penalty;”
AS 10.50.408(a)(1)
Before any of this becomes final, the commissioner has to mail notice and give the company a chance to fix it.
“A limited liability company may not be dissolved under this section unless the commissioner has given the company written notice of its delinquency, failure, or misrepresentation by mail as provided by (f) of this section.”
AS 10.50.408(b)
That notice starts a 60-day window to contest the delinquency. If nothing happens within 60 days, the commissioner is authorized to dissolve the company. Subsection (f) then lays out a fallback chain for the mailing itself, certified mail to the registered office first, then first-class mail to the registered agent if that bounces, then to a manager or managing member if that bounces too, so a stale registered-agent address does not, on its own, guarantee the owner never hears about it.
If the company does contest the delinquency and the commissioner holds a hearing and still finds it, subsection (c) gives the company one more option before dissolution becomes final: an appeal to the superior court, which can either sustain the commissioner or direct a different course of action. That route is separate from, and earlier than, the reinstatement process described below. It is a way to argue the delinquency was wrong in the first place, not a way to fix one that actually happened.
Two years to reinstate, six months to lose the name
The two clocks in AS 10.50.408 do not run at the same pace, and that gap is the page’s central finding. The company gets two years from the dissolution certificate to reinstate. But its name is released for anyone else to take after only six months.
“Upon the issuance of the certificate of involuntary dissolution, the existence of the company ceases, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, and its name shall be available to use and may be adopted by another company on a date that is six months or later after the dissolution.”
AS 10.50.408(d)
| Point in time | What happens |
|---|---|
| Delinquency reaches 6 months (report, fee, or penalty) | Commissioner may begin the process by mailing written notice |
| +60 days after notice, uncured | Certificate of involuntary dissolution issues; the company’s existence ceases |
| +6 months after the dissolution certificate | The company’s name becomes available for any other filer to adopt |
| Up to 2 years after the dissolution certificate | Deadline to apply for reinstatement; the fee is double the delinquent amount |
Reinstating within two years does not guarantee the name still belongs to the company. If someone else has taken it in the eighteen months between the six-month mark and the deadline, reinstatement still requires bringing the name into compliance, which in practice means picking a new one.
“A company dissolved under this section may be reinstated within two years from the date of the certificate of involuntary dissolution if it is established to the satisfaction of the commissioner that in fact there was no cause for the dissolution, or if the delinquency, failure, or misrepresentation resulting in dissolution has been corrected and payment made of double the amount delinquent along with the amount the company would have paid had it not been dissolved during the two-year period.”
AS 10.50.408(e)
That sentence carries two separate paths to reinstatement: proving the dissolution should never have happened, or fixing the problem and paying a penalty priced at double the delinquent amount plus everything that would otherwise have come due during the gap. Most owners will use the second path, and the doubling is not optional or discretionary: it is the statutory price of the cure.
The distinguishable-name rule
Even after the delinquency is cured and the doubled fee is paid, reinstatement is not automatic if the name has become a problem in the meantime.
“Reinstatement may not be authorized if the name of the company is not distinguishable upon the records of the department under AS 10.50.025 unless the company being reinstated amends its articles of organization to change its name to conform with the provisions of this chapter.”
AS 10.50.408(e)
The distinguishability standard itself is set separately, in the chapter’s general naming rule:
“The name of a limited liability company must be distinguishable on the records of the department from the name of any other organized entity and from a reserved or registered name.”
AS 10.50.025
In practice, this means the six-month name-release rule in the previous section is not a hypothetical risk to check on paper: it is the mechanism that can force a name change on reinstatement even when the owner does everything else right and comes back well inside the two-year window.
Does reinstatement erase the gap? The statute does not say
Idaho and Montana both state, in so many words, that reinstatement relates back to the date of dissolution and that the entity is treated as if the gap never happened. Hawaii says the company “resumes carrying on its business as if” the termination never occurred. AS 10.50.408 does none of this.
All six subsections of the Alaska section were read for this page, grounds, notice, appeal, the dissolution certificate and name release, reinstatement, and the mailing mechanics, and none of them contains a relation-back clause or any statement about the legal status of contracts, filings, or liability protection during the dissolved period. That is a genuine gap in the statute’s text, not an oversight in this page’s research, and it is worth naming plainly: an LLC’s status during the dissolved window, and the retroactive effect (or lack of one) once reinstated, is simply not addressed by the section that governs everything else about the process.
What you actually file
The reinstatement path runs through the Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing, not through court, unless the commissioner denies the application after a hearing under subsection (c), in which case the company may appeal to the superior court. Filing means showing the commissioner either that no cause for dissolution existed, or that the delinquency has been corrected, that the doubled payment has been made, and that the name is distinguishable or has been changed to become so.
- Delinquent biennial reports must be brought current.
- The reinstatement payment covers double the amount that was delinquent, plus the fees the company would have owed during the dissolved period.
- If the name is no longer available, the articles of organization must be amended to a conforming name as part of reinstatement.
This page could not confirm the current dollar figures behind any of this, the base biennial report fee, or the specific reinstatement filing fee, because the Division’s own site blocked automated retrieval and the state’s plain-text statute mirror was unreachable this session. Anyone relying on this should confirm the current fee schedule directly with the Division before filing.
Two clocks worth separating one more time before filing anything: the six-month name-release clock starts at the dissolution certificate, and the two-year reinstatement deadline starts at the same certificate date. They are not sequential: the name is already exposed for eighteen months of the two-year window during which the company still has every right to come back. Checking whether the name is still available, before assembling the rest of the reinstatement filing, is worth doing early rather than at the end of the process.
What this page does not do
- It does not state Alaska’s current biennial-report or reinstatement filing fee in dollars. commerce.alaska.gov returned an HTTP 403 block this session and touchngo.com, the state’s plain-text statute mirror, was unreachable (network error); AS 10.50.408(e) prices reinstatement as double the delinquent amount, not a fixed number, so the base figure could not be confirmed from a primary source.
- It does not resolve whether reinstatement is retroactive. AS 10.50.408(a) through (f) were read in full and none addresses relation-back; the rest of AS 10.50 was not individually reviewed section by section for an unrelated clause touching the same question.
- It is not legal advice.
Related: Dissolve an LLC in Alaska and LLC cost in Alaska. On the same reinstatement question elsewhere, see reinstating in Washington and Wyoming, or the broader annual report requirements by state.
Sources
Every statement of law on this page is quoted from the text below, as read on August 24, 2026. Each row links the document it was read from.
| What it establishes | Source |
|---|---|
| Grounds, notice, dissolution, and reinstatement mechanics for an Alaska LLC | AS 10.50.408 |
| The distinguishable-name standard reinstatement must satisfy | AS 10.50.025 |
General consumer information, not financial, tax or legal advice. State rules are as published by the cited source on 2026-08-24 and change; your own facts govern, and a reinstatement question with money on it is one to put to a lawyer or accountant in that state.
Reinstating so you can move the entity, not keep running it here? See moving an LLC out of Alaska for the state-of-organization change itself, once the LLC is back in good standing.
Reinstating so you can move the entity, not keep running it here? See moving an LLC to Alaska for the state-of-organization change itself, once the LLC is back in good standing.
Reinstating an LLC, not a corporation? See reinstating a corporation in Alaska for the statute-specific filing, deadline and fee.