Kansas: LLC Registered-Agent and Registered-Office Requirements
The short answer
A Kansas LLC must maintain a Kansas registered office and resident agent, and the LLC itself may serve. An individual agent must be a Kansas resident and be present often enough to accept service; a qualifying domestic entity must be in good standing with an identical, generally open business office, and a foreign entity must be authorized in Kansas. The agent receives and forwards process and official communications, while resignation uses advance notice plus a delayed effective date and an unreplaced lapse can lead to forfeiture without preventing alternate service.
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| Governing law and terminology | Kansas Revised Limited Liability Company Act plus the Business Entity Standard Treatment Act; Kansas uses 'resident agent' and 'registered office' (K.S.A. §§ 17-7662, 17-7902, 17-7924 to -7925) |
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| Continuous designation duty | Articles must state the Kansas registered-office address and resident-agent name; every LLC must maintain both continuously (§§ 17-7673(a)(2), 17-7924(a), 17-7925(a)) |
| Eligible individual | Individual must reside in Kansas and be generally present at a Kansas location often enough to accept process; no separate age, citizenship, or fixed-hours rule is stated (§ 17-7925(a)-(b)) |
| Eligible entity and self-service | LLC itself, listed domestic entity types, or listed foreign entity types may serve; domestic entity must be in good standing, foreign entity authorized in Kansas; member/manager may serve personally if a Kansas resident (§ 17-7925) |
| Registered office, address, and hours | Kansas address must include building/suite, street or rural route with box, city, state, ZIP; domestic entity agent's identical business office is generally open, while individual is present sufficiently often; no numbered hours (§§ 17-7924(c), 17-7925(b)) |
| Consent and initial filing | Authorized person signs articles stating agent name and registered-office address; governing provisions and current Form DL require no separate agent acceptance or signature (§ 17-7673(a); Form DL) |
| Change, resignation, and replacement | LLC files a change certificate; death or move triggers 30-day replacement. No-successor resignation needs 30-day advance notice, ends 30 days after filing, and replacement is due before day 60 after filing (§§ 17-7926 to -7929) |
| Agent duties and service | Agent accepts and forwards process and other communications to the LLC and forwards Secretary-of-State documents; direct service may also reach an officer, manager, business-office person in charge, or authorized agent (§§ 17-7925(b), 60-304(e)) |
| Lapse consequences and fallback service | Uncured death/move lapse may cause forfeiture after 30-day notice; no-successor resignation causes forfeiture after day 60. Secretary-of-State service is available if no agent exists or reasonable diligence cannot find one (§§ 17-7926(b), 17-7929(b)-(c), 60-304(f)) |
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Requirements one by one
Governing law and terminology
K.S.A. § 17-7662 names the LLC statute the Kansas Revised Limited Liability
Company Act. The shared filing rules in K.S.A. § 17-7902 expressly include a
limited liability company within the term covered entity. Kansas calls the
private recipient a resident agent and the location a registered office.
Continuous designation duty
K.S.A. § 17-7673(a) requires the articles of organization to state the
registered-office address and resident-agent name. Sections 17-7924 and
17-7925 then require the LLC to maintain both in Kansas after formation.
The registered office may be the LLC's place of business, but it need not be.
The two concepts should not be merged: an LLC can use a different principal
business location while keeping the statutory Kansas delivery point.
Eligible individual
An individual agent must reside in Kansas. K.S.A. § 17-7925(b)(1) requires the
individual to be generally present at a designated Kansas location at
sufficiently frequent times to accept service and perform the role.
The section does not state a minimum age, citizenship condition, or numbered
daily-hours window. A member, manager, owner, or employee can serve personally
only by independently meeting the Kansas-resident and availability rules.
Eligible entity and self-service
Kansas expressly allows the covered entity itself to serve. The other entity
options are a domestic corporation, limited partnership, LLP, LLC, or business
trust, or the foreign counterpart of one of those types.
A domestic entity agent must be in good standing and maintain a business office
identical to the registered office that is generally open. A foreign entity
agent must be authorized to transact business in Kansas.
Registered office, address, and hours
K.S.A. § 17-7924(c) requires the filed postal address to include the building
and suite number, street name or rural route number with box number, city,
state, and ZIP code. The current Form DL accordingly rejects a P.O. box alone.
Kansas uses a functional availability rule rather than a fixed schedule. A
domestic entity agent keeps an identical business office that is generally
open. An individual must be present often enough to receive process and perform
the role; the statute does not translate that standard into 9-to-5 hours.
Consent and initial filing
One or more authorized persons execute the articles. The filing states the LLC
name, resident-agent name, and Kansas registered-office address. The current
Form DL has the authorized person sign under penalty of perjury.
The governing formation and resident-agent provisions and Form DL state no
separate acceptance certificate, consent statement, or agent signature. That
is different from states whose agent must sign the formation filing.
Change, resignation, and replacement
Under K.S.A. § 17-7926(a), the LLC changes its office or agent by filing a
certificate with the Secretary of State. If the agent dies or moves from the
registered office, the LLC has 30 days to certify another agent. The filed
change does not require a separate amendment of the articles.
An agent can also file a multi-entity address or name change under § 17-7927.
If the agent resigns and simultaneously appoints a successor, § 17-7928
requires each affected LLC to execute a statement ratifying and approving the
substitution; the successor takes over on filing.
A resignation without a successor follows § 17-7929's longer sequence. The
agent first gives written notice at least 30 days before filing. The resignation
then becomes effective 30 days after filing. The LLC must appoint the successor
before 60 days have elapsed after filing to avoid forfeiture.
Agent duties and service
K.S.A. § 17-7925(b) requires the agent to accept process and other
communications directed to the LLC and forward them to the LLC. The agent also
forwards documents sent by the Secretary of State. The statute supplies no
numbered forwarding deadline.
The resident agent is not the only possible direct recipient. K.S.A.
§ 60-304(e) also permits service on an officer, manager, resident, managing or
general agent, an authorized agent, or the person in charge at a business
office, subject to the section's delivery rules.
Lapse consequences and fallback service
If an agent dies or moves and the LLC misses the 30-day replacement deadline,
§ 17-7926(b) permits alternate service and lets the Secretary of State declare
the organizing document forfeited after giving 30 days' notice of the intended
action. After a no-successor resignation, § 17-7929 requires forfeiture if no
replacement is filed by day 60 after the resignation filing.
Loss of the private agent does not make the LLC unreachable. K.S.A.
§ 60-304(f) makes the Secretary of State the statutory fallback when the LLC
has no resident agent or reasonable diligence cannot find the agent at the
registered office. The serving party delivers the statutory copies and pays
the $40 fee; the Secretary then forwards a copy by return-receipt delivery to
the LLC's recorded principal office or its formation-state office.
What trips people up
Kansas expressly permits entity self-service. The LLC itself is the first
eligible option in § 17-7925(a). A commercial provider is not mandatory.
A resignation without a successor has two separate 30-day periods. The
agent gives 30 days' notice before filing, then remains agent for 30 days after
filing. Secretary-of-State fallback service starts once the resignation is
effective; forfeiture follows if the LLC still has not replaced the agent by
day 60 after filing.
An agent can move multiple registered offices through one filing. Section
17-7927 lets the agent list all represented entities and a common new Kansas
address. That is different from an LLC-initiated change under § 17-7926.
Common questions
Can an agent appoint its own successor? Yes, under § 17-7928, but each
affected LLC must execute a statement ratifying and approving the substitution.
Must an agent change be added to the articles? No. A properly filed
§ 17-7926 certificate changes the office or agent without another articles
amendment.
What does Secretary-of-State fallback service cost? K.S.A. § 60-304(f)
sets a $40 service fee, subject to a waiver for state agencies.
Statutes and sources
- K.S.A. §§ 17-7662, 17-7673, and 17-7902 — Act name, LLC coverage, and
formation filing fields.
https://ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch17/017_076_0073.html
(accessed 2026-07-27) - K.S.A. §§ 17-7924 to 17-7929 — registered office, eligible agents,
availability and forwarding duties, changes, resignation, replacement, and
forfeiture.
https://ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch17/017_079_0025.html
(accessed 2026-07-27) - K.S.A. § 60-304(e)-(f) — direct LLC service and Secretary-of-State
fallback service.
https://ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch60/060_003_0004.html
(accessed 2026-07-27) - Kansas Secretary of State Form DL — current articles fields, agent types,
street-address instruction, and authorized-person signature.
https://sos.ks.gov/forms/business_services/DL.pdf
(accessed 2026-07-27)
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