Arizona: LLC Registered-Agent and Registered-Office Requirements

Requirements one by one

Governing law and terminology

A.R.S. § 29-3101 names chapter 7 of Title 29 the Arizona limited liability
company act. Arizona calls the process recipient the statutory agent, and
LLC filings go to the Arizona Corporation Commission. A.R.S. § 29-3102 defines
both the Commission and statutory-agent terms.

Continuous designation duty

Each domestic LLC must designate and maintain a statutory agent in Arizona
under § 29-3115(A). The articles of organization state the agent's name and
Arizona street and mailing addresses under § 29-3201(B)(3).

The duty is continuous. The later 60-day period in § 29-3708 is a threshold for
administrative-dissolution proceedings, not permission to remain without an
agent.

Eligible individual

An individual statutory agent must be an Arizona resident and must have a place
of residence or business in the state under § 29-3115(B). The Act states no
separate minimum age, citizenship, professional-license, or exact daily-hours
test.

A member, manager, owner, or employee is not a special category. The Commission
expressly says a member or manager may serve in the person's individual
capacity, which means independently satisfying the resident-individual and
address rules.

Eligible entity and self-service

Section 29-3115(B) permits a domestic corporation or Arizona LLC, plus a foreign
corporation or foreign LLC authorized to transact business in Arizona.

The Arizona Corporation Commission's M002i and L010i instructions expressly
state that the represented corporation or LLC cannot be its own statutory
agent and must appoint someone apart from itself. Another qualifying Arizona
LLC can serve; the subject LLC cannot simply list its own name.

Registered office, address, and hours

Arizona does not impose a separately named registered-office duty in these LLC
sections. Instead, the statutory agent must have an Arizona residence or place
of business, and the articles state the agent's Arizona street and mailing
addresses.

The current Commission paper form implements the street field as a physical
Arizona address and rejects a P.O. box there. The separate Arizona mailing
address is also required on that form and may be a P.O. box. The Act does not
set a specific 9-to-5 or other daily availability interval.

Consent and initial filing

Acceptance is not optional. Under § 29-3115(A), the appointment is ineffective
until the Commission receives a record signed by the agent accepting it, unless
the agent already signed the document making the appointment.

The current paper articles are organizer-signed and require the separate M002
Statutory Agent Acceptance with the filing. The M002 signer is the individual
agent or an authorized signer for the entity agent. The organizer and agent
signatures therefore serve different statutory functions; A.R.S. § 29-3203
assigns the initial-articles signature to an organizer.

Change, resignation, and replacement

The LLC may file a statement changing its agent or address under § 29-3116, or
amend its articles. No member or manager approval is required for the statement
of change, but the successor's signed acceptance is required unless that agent
signed the statement itself. A.R.S. § 29-3202 requires the amendment or
statement within 30 days after an agent or address change. An agent changing its
own name or address may file under § 29-3118 and must promptly notify the LLC.

A compliant filed record ordinarily takes effect at its delivery date and time
under § 29-3207. An agent's resignation is the exception specifically timed by
§ 29-3117: it ends on the earlier of the 31st day after filing or designation
of a new agent. The resigning agent promptly sends the LLC notice of the filing
date and has no chapter responsibility for later-tendered material once the
resignation takes effect.

Agent duties and service

Section 29-3115(C) says the compliant agent's only chapter duties are to
forward received process, notices, and demands to the latest company-supplied
address; send the statutory resignation notice; and keep the agent information
in the articles current.

Serving the statutory agent serves the LLC under § 29-3119(A), and service on
the agent must be in a written record. The section preserves other service
methods available under law outside the LLC Act.

Lapse consequences and fallback service

If the LLC has no agent or reasonable diligence cannot reach the agent,
§ 29-3119 supplies this sequence:

1. Registered or certified mail with return receipt requested, or a similar
   commercial delivery service, goes to the principal address in the LLC's
   latest Commission filing. Service occurs at receipt, the signed-return date,
   or five days after proper deposit, whichever comes first.
2. If agent and principal-address service fail, a copy may be handed to the
   individual in charge of a regular place of business or activity, provided
   that individual is not a plaintiff.

Unlike several states, § 29-3119 does not automatically make the Corporation
Commission a service agent after those failures. It instead preserves any
other means available under law.

Entity consequences are separate. Section 29-3202(J) bars an LLC that has not
made a required articles amendment from maintaining a contract-or-transaction
action until it amends. Section 29-3708 permits administrative-dissolution
proceedings if the LLC lacks an Arizona agent for at least 60 consecutive days
or fails for 60 days to notify the Commission of an agent/address change or
resignation. The Commission gives written notice and another 60 days to cure or
disprove the ground before dissolution; a dissolved LLC then may act only to
wind up or seek reinstatement.

What trips people up

Another LLC may serve, but the represented LLC may not. Section 29-3115
permits an Arizona LLC as an entity agent, while the Commission's official
filing instructions require a person or entity apart from the represented LLC.

The acceptance is separate from the organizer signature. On the current
paper route, the organizer signs the articles and the agent signs M002. Filing
only organizer-signed articles leaves the appointment ineffective and the
paper package incomplete.

The 30-day, 31-day, and 60-day periods do different work. Known agent or
address changes use the 30-day update rule; resignation ordinarily ends on day
31; and a 60-day no-agent or notice failure is a dissolution ground that still
receives a further 60-day notice-and-cure period.

Common questions

Can an Arizona member be statutory agent? Yes, if the member is an
individual Arizona resident with the required Arizona address and signs the
acceptance. Membership alone is not the qualification.

Can the LLC appoint itself? No. The Arizona Corporation Commission's
official instructions expressly require someone apart from the represented
LLC, although another qualifying Arizona LLC may serve.

Can the street address be a P.O. box? No. The current Commission form
requires a physical or street address for the agent. It separately requires an
Arizona mailing address, which may be a P.O. box.

When does resignation take effect? On the earlier of the 31st day after
the Commission files the resignation or designation of a new agent.

Is the Corporation Commission the automatic backup recipient? Not under
§ 29-3119. The LLC Act uses principal-address delivery and then the individual
in charge of a regular business place, while preserving service methods under
other law.

Statutes and sources

• A.R.S. §§ 29-3101-.3102 and 29-3115 — Act name, definitions,
  maintenance, eligibility, acceptance, address, and exclusive duties.
  https://www.azleg.gov/ars/29/03115.htm (accessed 2026-07-27)
• A.R.S. §§ 29-3116-.3119 — entity and agent changes, resignation, direct
  service, and fallback service.
  https://www.azleg.gov/ars/29/03119.htm (accessed 2026-07-27)
• A.R.S. §§ 29-3201-.3203 and 29-3207 — articles fields, 30-day updates,
  signatures, suit bar, and filing effectiveness.
  https://www.azleg.gov/ars/29/03202.htm (accessed 2026-07-27)
• A.R.S. § 29-3708 — 60-day lapse grounds, notice, further 60-day cure,
  dissolution, and post-dissolution limits.
  https://www.azleg.gov/ars/29/03708.htm (accessed 2026-07-27)
• Arizona Corporation Commission forms L010 and M002/instructions — current
  paper address fields, self-agent prohibition, required separate acceptance,
  and signatures.
  https://azcc.gov/docs/default-source/corps-files/instructions/m002i-instructions-statutory-agent-acceptance.pdf?sfvrsn=7f07b36f_2
  (accessed 2026-07-27)

CTA audit

The live Ezel Arizona articles template correctly collects the statutory
agent's Arizona physical and mailing addresses and tells the filer to submit a
statutory-agent acceptance. But the generated document contains no acceptance
signature block and does not generate or attach M002. Because the signed
acceptance is a prerequisite to an effective appointment and part of the
current paper filing package, this cell intentionally has no CTA template slug.