North Dakota Registered Agent

• State law requires all legitimate, registered businesses to appoint one.
• The secretary of state will reject your business filing if you don’t appoint a registered agent.
• A registered agent requirement gives the public and the state a reliable way to contact your business.

Yes, you can be your own registered agent in North Dakota. However, after considering the registered agent requirements most business owners elect to hire a registered agent service instead. Why? Well although being your own registered agent will cost you $0, a registered agent’s name and address becomes part of the public record.  Additionally, the registered agent is required to be available to accept service of process during normal business hours five days a week.

Absolutely! As part of Northwest’s Registered Agent Service, we’ll not only send you a reminder, but we’ll give you the form and instructions you need to file it. If you’d rather let us file for you, just use our Renewal Service, and save yourself another paperwork headache!

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 your private address private and off public record.

We give you five FREE scans of regular business mail a year. This is in addition to legal mail and Secretary of State notices, which are always free. You can request any additional regular mail documents to be forwarded at a per document rate of $15.

Hire us first. North Dakota will reject your business registration filing if you don’t have a registered agent. You can find all the forms and instructions you need to complete your filing instantly after you hire us.

This is how it works:

• A process server, county sheriff, or third party will walk into our office and hand us the documents, which we then sign for. This delivery is known as service of process.
• The process server then gives an affidavit (a receipt of service) to the court as confirmation that they served us.

Note: Regardless of whether you receive the documents your registered agent signs for on your business’s behalf, once they accept the documents, you’re considered legally notified. This is a serious responsibility that we do not take lightly. Serving a registered agent is legal proof that you were notified. If you hire Northwest, long before the server submits their affidavit to the court, you will have received your documents because we scan them to your account within minutes of accepting them.

You can do a North Dakota 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 through their North Dakota registered agent service, just send a certified letter directly to the registered agent name and registered office address.

In North Dakota, to resign as a registered agent, you need to submit a Statement of Resignation of Registered Agent to the North Dakota Secretary of State’s Business Services Division. For a more detailed walk-through, you can refer to our guide on how to resign as a registered agent in North Dakota.