Kansas Registered Agent

Your Kansas registered agent should, at minimum, accept legal documents (service of process) and official mail for your business at local address called a registered office. In other words, your registered agent’s address acts as the official place where any service of process and official mail for your Kansas LLC, Kansas corporation or Kansas nonprofit will be sent.

However, the right registered agent service can do much more. At Northwest, we go above and beyond the minimum to ensure top speed, security, privacy and support.

According to Kansas State Code § 17-6202 (for corporations) and Kansas State Code § 17-7666 (for LLCs) , a resident agent (also known as a registered agent) must:

• Be able to accept legal documents.
• Have a physical, registered office address located within the state of Kansas. No P.O. Boxes.
• Be a resident or a company that provides registered agent services.

To have a legally operated business in Kansas, you are required to maintain a registered agent (sometimes referred to as a “resident” agent on certain documents, but they are the same thing). A registered agent is the person or business that is designated to accept official documents and service of process on behalf of your business. A registered agent must:

• Have regular business hours. It’s important to keep regular business hours as a Kansas registered agent because process servers will need to be able to serve your business.
• Have a physical street address in Kansas. A PO Box won’t work in this case—the registered agent needs to occupy a physical location in Kansas during regular business hours. If you are a foreign company that wishes to do business in Kansas, you will need a registered agent in Kansas who has a street address within the state.

Who can be a registered agent?

You have a few options when it comes to who you can appoint as your registered agent when you start a Kansas business. You can actually designate another business to fulfill this position. These are often commercial registered agent services, or sometimes legal offices or other professional businesses.

An individual person may also act as registered agent for your business. This can either be someone you appoint or yourself. If you appoint someone else, make sure they are someone you trust to handle your business’s important, time-sensitive mail—i.e. lawsuits and annual report reminders.

How do I become my own registered agent?

You can initially become your own registered agent by filling in your own name and address on the formation documents. Once they are filed by the state, you are officially your business’s registered agent. You will need to appoint your own registered agent before your business can be formed. If you already have a business and wish to change your Kansas registered agent in order to act as your own, you will file a Change of Registered Agent or Office form with the Kansas secretary of state. There are different forms depending on whether you are a corporation or an LLC.

Once this form is filed by the Kansas secretary of state you will be your business’s registered agent. Although being your own registered agent will cost you $0, remember, if you plan to act as the registered agent for your Kansas LLC or Kansas corporation, you must maintain a Kansas street address and keep regular business hours there. Also, you have to be fine with process servers knocking on your door, and your name and address being searchable, public knowledge once it goes on either your formation documents or the change of agent form.

There are two ways to change your registered agent in Kansas.

1. 1. Hire us and we’ll complete the change of agent form for you for free.
   2. Do it yourself and file a Change of Registered Office or Agent form for the Kansas Division of Corporations.

At Northwest, we do business the right way. We’re dedicated to getting you your docs fast, protecting your privacy and offering you support. Here’s how:

• Same-Day Scans, Instant Notifications: We accept and scan your docs at our local office the same day. We notify you instantly and reach out to you if your essential mail goes unread.
• Privacy by Default®: We automatically minimize the exposure of and access to your personal data. If we can put our address on a public doc instead of yours, we do. If we don’t have to list your personal info, we don’t. We have tough privacy policies to keep your data safe and private. And we never sell your data.
• Free Limited Mail Forwarding: Of course we’ll get you your state and legal mail. That’s our job. But what if we get some of your regular business mail? It happens a lot—clients and businesses trying to connect with you via your registered agent. We scan 5 documents per year for FREE. We can also scan additional mail at a per document rate of $15.
• Corporate Guides®: Have questions? We have answers. Our guides are business experts whose sole job is to provide phone and email support for all your toughest business questions.