Arizona Registered Agent
Any business formed with the Arizona Secretary of State needs an Arizona statutory agent, also called a registered agent. This is the person or business who accepts legal mail for your business.
If you care about your privacy and security, hire a professional Arizona Statutory Agent like us. We put our address wherever we can, offer support from local experts, and our office is in one of the only Arizona counties that doesn't have a publication requirement.
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What Is an Arizona Statutory Agent?
Arizona statutory agents, also called registered agents, accept legal mail on behalf of your Arizona LLC or corporation. They are responsible for accepting lawsuits and state notices and forwarding the information to you. A good statutory agent is how you avoid missing court dates, fees, or even dissolution.
Your statutory agent’s registered office is also the address that determines if you have a publication requirement. Only two counties in the whole state don’t require three consequtive publications in local newspapers. (The good news? We’re in Pima County, which is exempt.)
Per Arizona state code § 10.501, registered agents are legally required in Arizona. At a minimum, your registered agent must list a physical address on the public record and be present at that address during business hours. But ideally, your registered agent should do more.
What Are Arizona’s Legal Requirements?
According to Arizona state law, a statutory agents in Arizona must:
- Be able to accept legal documents on behalf of the business
- Have a physical registered office address (no P.O. Boxes) located within the state of Arizona
- Must be a state resident or a company that provides registered agent services
You can be your own agent, appoint someone else, or hire a service like Northwest. When you hire us, you can use our Arizona address instead of yours. You’ll get five free non-state mail scans per year as well. However, we do more.
Maybe you just need a mail solution. Try Northwest’s Premium Mail Forwarding. You’ll get a unique suite number at a local business address, and unlimited mail forwarding (choose between daily digital scans or weekly physical forwarding).
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How Do I Change My Arizona Registered Agent?
Changing your registered agent is a straightforward process:
- You’ll file a Registered Agent Statement of Change form with the Arizona Corporation Commission.
- If you place an order with us, the form will be available instantly. We’ll even pay and file the change of agent filing for you.
It’s a simple change, but for more info, see our guide on how to change your registered agent in Arizona.
Why Northwest Is the Best Registered Agent in Arizona
Our Registered Agent Service includes the tools you need to keep your business running without a hitch. When you hire Northwest as your registered agent, you get:
- Same-Day scans: We scan your legal docs the same day we receive them and reach out if your essential mail goes unread.
- Privacy by Default®: We list our business address on public docs to keep your personal info safe. And unlike those other guys, we never sell your data.
- Corporate Guides®: Have questions? We have answers. Our guides are business experts whose sole job is to provide support for all your business questions.
- Business Identity: Northwest is a Business Identity provider. Get a domain name that matches your business name. Tack on website hosting, we’ll get you an expert-built website, hosted and secured by us. Want to start talking to suppliers, advertisers, customers, and more? Set up business email addresses and a separate business phone number so you can protect your data and keep your communication professional.
- Brand Protection: Keep an eye on your business name, domains, and trademarks, with free Brand Protection. We’ll alert you to potential conflicts early, and give you simple tools to build and manage your brand all in one place.
How To Order Arizona Registered Agent Service
You sign up for service online (you’ll find the signup at the top of this page).
After you make your business registration filing with the Arizona Corporation Commission, we’ll become your registered agent.
We collect the first year’s fee up front.
About a year later, we’ll send you an invoice for another year of Registered Agent Service. If you want to cancel then, you can easily do so.
We make it easy to add registered agent services online. Your online account is the place to go—not just for registered agent service or to pay a bill—for keeping up with corporate paperwork formalities for your Arizona business.
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Arizona Statutory Agent FAQs
- All businesses registered with the state must appoint a statutory agent.
- The Arizona Corporations Commission and the Secretary of State will reject your filing if you do not appoint one.
- So that the government and general public have a reliable way to contact your Arizona business with legal notices and other types of important mail
Yes, you can be your own registered agent in Arizona. With that said, after considering the requirements for a registered agent, most business owners elect to hire a registered agent service instead.
Why? Well, while being your own registered agent will cost you $0, an Arizona registered agent’s name and address becomes part of the accessible public record. Additionally, a registered agent must remain at their designated registered office location during normal business hours five days a week, in order to be available for accepting service of process
We scan all documents locally from our office in Phoenix, AZ.
Yes. We’re the only national registered agent service that allows our clients to list our address for everything when you’re doing a filing to keep you private address off public records.
As your registered agent, we give you five FREE scans of regular business mail a year. You can request any additional documents to be forwarded at a per document rate of $15.
Expecting more mail? We can set you up with our Arizona Premium Mail Forwarding service. That gives you unlimited same day scans or weekly physical mail forwarding. Plus, you’ll get a unique suite address. You can use that address on invoices, websites, letterhead, or anywhere else you want to protect your privacy and get your mail safely and securely.
You hire us first and then do your business registration filing with the Corporation Commission. The state won’t allow you to form an Arizona LLC or corporation without an Arizona statutory agent. Plus, you’ll find all the forms and instructions you need to complete your filing instantly after you sign up.
Service on your registered agent is legal proof that you were notified. Regardless of whether you actually receive the documents your Arizona registered agent signs for, once they accept the documents, you’ve been notified. This is a serious responsibility that we do not take lightly. This is how it works:
- A process server, the county sheriff, or any third party will walk into our office and hand us the documents (service of process), which we sign for.
- The process server then gives an affidavit (a receipt of service) to the court as confirmation that they served us.
To find a company’s registered agent, you can do an Arizona business name search.
- Type in the name of the company you’re searching for.
- In the results, you’ll find the registered agent’s name and registered office street address.
If you want to legally notify a business, just send a certified letter directly to the registered agent name and registered office address.
In Arizona, to resign as a statutory agent, you need to submit a Statutory Agent Resignation form to the Arizona Corporation Commission. For a more detailed walkthrough, you can refer to our guide on how to resign as a registered agent in Arizona.