AR registered agent
Arkansas registered agent service, $3.50 a year
Arkansas requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Arkansas law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Arkansas requires of a registered agent
The requirement
Arkansas governs registered agents across entity types through the cross-entity Model Registered Agents Act (Ark. Code Ann. Title 4, ch. 20). The agent is either a listed 'commercial registered agent' or a 'noncommercial registered agent' - an individual or a domestic or foreign entity that serves in this state. Filings must state an actual street address or rural route box number in Arkansas. The LLC act adds that the agent must have a place of business in this state (4-38-115(c)). No individual-residency requirement appears in the captured text.
“Noncommercial registered agent” means a person that is not listed as a commercial registered agent under § 4-20-106 and that is: (A) an individual or a domestic or foreign entity that serves in this state as the agent for service of process of an entity ... Whenever this chapter requires that a filing state an address, the filing must state: (1) an actual street address or rural route box number in this state; and (2) a mailing address in this state, if different ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ark. Code Ann. §§ 4-20-102(13), 4-20-104; § 4-38-115 (LLCs)
How we comply
We don't.
What Arkansas does to your company when we don't
Here is what the state does to an entity that has no agent, or whose agent is us.
Administrative dissolution
The Secretary of State may administratively dissolve a corporation that is without a registered agent for 60 days or more or that fails to report an agent change or resignation within 60 days (60-day cure window after notice, 4-27-1421(b)); an LLC may be administratively dissolved if it does not have a registered agent for 60 consecutive days (4-38-708(a)(3)).
The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under § 4-27-1421 to administratively dissolve a corporation if: ... (3) the corporation is without a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or more; (4) the corporation does not notify the Secretary of State within sixty (60) days that its registered agent has been changed or has resigned;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ark. Code Ann. § 4-27-1420(3)-(4) (corporations); § 4-38-708(a)(3) (LLCs)
And also
Name loss: on dissolution (administrative or otherwise) an LLC's name becomes available to other companies, and the dissolved company must use a new name on reinstatement if the prior name was taken.
If a limited liability company is dissolved, administratively or otherwise, the name is available for use by another formed limited liability company, and the dissolved company would be required, upon reinstatement, to use a new name if the prior name was taken.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ark. Code Ann. § 4-38-708(f)
Revocation (foreign entities)
The Secretary of State may revoke a foreign corporation's certificate of authority if it is without a registered agent for 60 days or more or fails to file notice of an agent change or resignation within 60 days; on revocation the Secretary of State becomes the corporation's agent for service (4-27-1531(d)). A registered foreign LLC's registration may be terminated if it does not have a registered agent as required by 4-38-115 or fails to file a statement of change within 30 days (4-38-910(a)(3)-(4)).
The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under § 4-27-1531 to revoke the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state if: ... (3) the foreign corporation is without a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or more; (4) the foreign corporation does not file an appropriate notice with the Secretary of State within sixty (60) days of the change or resignation of the foreign corporation's registered agent;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ark. Code Ann. § 4-27-1530(3)-(4) (foreign corporations); § 4-38-910(a)(3)-(4) (foreign LLCs)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
Reinstatement must be sought within two years of administrative dissolution for both corporations and LLCs; an LLC must pay all fees, taxes, interest and penalties that were due and that would have accrued during dissolution, and a corporation's application must include state tax-clearance certificates (4-27-1422(a)(4)).
To be reinstated, a limited liability company must pay all fees, taxes, interest, and penalties that were due to the Secretary of State at the time of the company's administrative dissolution and all fees, taxes, interest, and penalties that would have been due to the Secretary of State while the company was administratively dissolved.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ark. Code Ann. § 4-38-709(a)-(b) (LLCs); § 4-27-1422(a) (corporations)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
The Model Registered Agents Act fallback is NOT service on the Secretary of State: if an entity has no registered agent, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, service is made by registered or certified mail addressed to one or more of the entity's governors by name at its principal office; failing that, by handing a copy to the person in charge of any regular place of business (4-20-113(c)). The Secretary of State becomes an entity's agent for service only on revocation of a foreign corporation's certificate of authority (4-27-1531(d)).
If an entity fails to appoint an agent under this subchapter or if an entity that previously filed a registered agent filing with the Secretary of State no longer has a registered agent, or if its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the entity may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to one or more of the governors of the entity by name at its principal office in accordance with any applicable judicial rules and procedures.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ark. Code Ann. § 4-20-113(b)
Statutory text as captured by incFACTS (retrieved 2026-08-01, verified word-for-word against the state code 2026-08-10). Laws change. The statute governs; this page does not.