Kentucky Registered Agent
All Kentucky LLCs and corporations are required to have a registered agent. When you choose Northwest as your Kentucky Registered Agent, you get instant service, Privacy by Default®, a business address, and free mail forwarding. Want more? Northwest is the only registered agent that can provide your business services from domains to DBAs easily, and all in-house.
Want to learn more about what a registered agent does in Kentucky? We'll explain the Kentucky Secretary of State requirements, what your registered agent should do for you, and how to change your registered agent in Kentucky.
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$125 a Year Every Year
Northwest is the choice of professionals for registered agent service.
- Same-Day Scans, Instant Notifications
- Privacy by Default®
- Business Address
- Instant Domain, Website, Email & Local Phone Number
What Is a Registered Agent?
A Kentucky registered agent is someone (yourself, another individual, or a professional registered agent company like us) that is tasked with accepting important legal mail on behalf of your business. Per Kentucky’s registered agent requirements detailed in KY Rev Stat § 14A.4-010, all registered businesses in Kentucky must have have a registered agent.
At a minimum, your registered agent must:
- Have a physical address (no P.O. Boxes or virtual offices) in the state of Kentucky
- Keep regular business hours (9 AM to 5 PM)
- Accept legal mail and correspondence from the Kentucky Secretary of State on behalf of your business and notify you of receipt
It’s easy to find a registered agent service that will accept important mail on your behalf, but shouldn’t a registered agent for your Kentucky LLC or corporation go the extra mile? We believe so, which is why at Northwest, we scan your mail when we receive it, and then we upload it directly to your online account. We also let you use our registered address on all your state formation documents and filings, helping you to keep your personal information off public record.
How Do I Change My KY Registered Agent?
There are two ways to change your registered agent in Kentucky:
- Hire us and we’ll complete the change of agent form for you.
- Do it yourself and file a Change of Principal Office Address, Registered Agent and/or Registered Office Address form with the Kentucky Secretary of State.
It’s a fairly straightforward process, but for a deeper dive, check out our more detailed page on how to change your registered agent in Kentucky.
Why Northwest Is the Best Registered Agent in Kentucky
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 five 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.
As the nation’s top choice for starting businesses easily and affordably, we also offer in-house services to build your business’s online identity:
- Domain name: Pick a domain name for your business with your choice of extension (like .com and .net).
- Website: We provide a pre-built business website for you to customize using an open source platform, so it’s yours to own whether hosted by us or anyone you choose.
- Business email address: Create up to 10 business email addresses. For branding ease, they’ll all end in your chosen domain name.
- Phone number: Keep your personal line private by establishing a local phone number for client communications.
- Web hosting: Our web hosting service includes SSL security at no additional cost.
We’ll act as a registered agent for your Kentucky corporation or LLC, but we can also help with your Kentucky Annual Report if you’re worried about keeping up with compliance filing.
How to Order Registered Agent Service in KY
You sign up online, clicking on one of the buttons or links that says HIRE US.
We collect the first year of the registered agent service fee up front.
For new businesses, we’ll become your Kentucky Registered Agent Service once your business registration filing with the Kentucky Secretary of State is complete.
About a year later, we’ll send you an invoice for another year of service. If you want to keep using us, great; if you don’t, you can easily cancel.
It’s easy to add registered agent services in other states if your business expands. We have offices in every state. We don’t farm out work (or your info) to other companies—wherever you are, WE are your registered agent.
We make your account a real go-to resource for you, not just for registered agent service or paying a bill but for keeping up with Kentucky corporate compliance.
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Kentucky Registered Agent FAQs
All entities registered with the Kentucky Secretary of State need to list a registered agent. This includes Kentucky LLCs and Kentucky corporations as well as foreign LLCs and foreign corporations. We can also act as a registered agent for your Kentucky nonprofit.
Big data: We don’t store your credit card information. We don’t sell your data to others to make money.
Real-time scanning: Your Kentucky registered agent service is going to be your point of contact for serious legal notices. We maintain our own registered offices in each state. And we don’t just email you a copy of your notice. Our service system helps make sure you don’t just get a notice but that you’re actually reviewing the documents.
Privacy: This shouldn’t be a decision you make lightly. When some random person or a government official wants to know who owns your company, your registered agent is who they’ll contact. We have tough privacy policies to keep your data private. Our staff is trained not to give away your information. Our in-house data security professionals stress test our own systems regularly. We also prosecute those who try to hack our system.
Collections: We pick up new clients switching registered agent services every day because they’re annoyed by their current registered agent’s billing policies. We don’t send our clients to collections. If you don’t want to pay us, don’t. We’ve never sent a client to collections.
This is all we do: When you hire us for service, you’re actually hiring Northwest Registered Agent. Registered agent service isn’t a line item on a profit and loss sheet. It’s not a dividend payment to our owners. It’s not an idea we hope will work out. And we sure as heck aren’t a massive corporate conglomerate looking for every penny of profit we can grab. This isn’t just a job to us; it’s our passion.
Definitely! 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 off public records.
We accept and scan all of our Kentucky clients’ documents on-site at our registered office in Richmond, KY.
When we accept service of process on behalf of your business, we will scan the documents from our office in Richmond to your online account. You’ll be able to view the documents in minutes.
No, because that’s not what we do. We don’t want all your mail, but we do want to help you if possible. Plus, if you don’t have a lease at our address, the US Postal Service might not deliver your mail.
As your registered agent in Kentucky, things may come directly to us, Northwest Registered Agent Service Inc., care of you. If and when that happens. we’ll scan it to you in real time.
You should hire us first and then form your LLC or corporation because the Kentucky Secretary of State will reject your business registration filing if you don’t. You’ll find all the forms and instructions you need to complete your filing instantly after you place an order.
Serving a registered agent is legal proof that you were notified. Regardless of whether you receive the documents your Kentucky registered agent signs for on your business’s behalf, 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.
You can perform a Kentucky business name search to find a company’s registered agent.
- 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 Kentucky registered agent service, just send a certified letter directly to the registered agent name and registered office address.
The cost of a registered agent in Kentucky depends on a few factors. Notably, it’s free if you act as your own registered agent, though this also means listing your private information on the public record.
At Northwest, our Kentucky Registered Agent Service costs $125 and always has. We don’t do hidden or surprise fees.