Utah Registered Agent

Yes, you can be your own registered agent in Utah. 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 Utah 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 5 days a week.

Yes! Utah businesses, including Utah LLCs, Utah corporations, nonprofits, LPs, and LLPs must file a report with the state each year. All annual renewals will get mailed to your UT registered agent. As your UT registered agent, we scan your reports into your online account and send you reminders. They are due on the anniversary of your filing, and we will receive them for you about 45 days prior to the renewal date. They cost $20 to file. You can also log into your registered agent account at any time and track your Utah annual renewal dates.

Yes! We don’t mind if you put our address on your filing with the Secretary of State. We’re the only national registered agent service that allows clients to use the registered office address and keep your own address of the public record.

We don’t want ALL of your business mail. It’s not what we do. And it wouldn’t serve you well. You wouldn’t have unique address or suite number. Any mail we receive on your behalf would come to to Northwest Registered Agent, care of you.

But we understand that businesses and clients sometimes reach out to you through your registered agent. Through us. That’s why we give you 5 FREE scans of regular business mail a year. You can request any additional documents to be forwarded at a per document rate of $15.

You should hire us first and then form your Utah LLC or corporation because the state will reject your business registration filing if you don’t list your registered agent. You’ll find all the forms and instructions you need to complete your filing instantly after you place an order.

Service on your registered agent is legal proof that you were notified. Regardless of whether you actually receive the documents your Utah 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:

1. 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.
2. The process server then gives an affidavit (a receipt of service) to the court as confirmation that they “served” us.

Note: If you’ve hired Northwest, you’ve received your documents long before the process server hands in their affidavit to the court, because we scanned them to your online account within minutes of having been served.

• You can do a Utah business name search on the state’s website
• Type in the company name you are trying to look up.
• Look at the UT registered agent name and registered office street address.

If you want to legally notify someone through their registered agent, just send a certified letter directly to the registered agent name and registered office address.

In Utah, to resign as a registered agent, you need to submit two copies of the Statement of Resignation of Registered Agent to the Utah Department of Commerce, Division of Corporations and Commercial Code. For a more detailed walkthrough, you can refer to our guide on how to resign as a registered agent in Utah.