KS registered agent
Kansas registered agent service, $3.50 a year
Kansas requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Kansas law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Kansas requires of a registered agent
The requirement
Kansas uses the term 'resident agent.' Under the Business Entity Standard Treatment (BEST) Act, every covered entity must maintain a resident agent, which may be the entity itself, an individual resident of Kansas, a domestic entity (corporation, LP, LLP, LLC, or business trust), or a foreign entity of those types. A domestic-entity agent must be in good standing and keep a business office identical with the registered office that is generally open; an individual agent must be generally present at a designated Kansas location at sufficiently frequent times to accept service of process (K.S.A. 17-7925(b)). A foreign-entity agent must be authorized to transact business in Kansas.
(a) Every covered entity shall have and maintain in this state a resident agent, which agent may be either: (1) The covered entity itself; (2) an individual resident in this state; (3) a domestic corporation, a domestic limited partnership, a domestic limited liability partnership, a domestic limited liability company or a domestic business trust; or (4) a foreign corporation, a foreign limited partnership, a foreign limited liability partnership, a foreign limited liability company or a foreign business trust.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: K.S.A. 17-7925(a)-(b)
How we comply
We don't.
What Kansas 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
If the resident agent dies or moves from the registered office and the entity does not designate a new agent within 30 days, the Secretary of State, after 30 days notice, may declare the entity's public organic document forfeited.
If any covered entity fails to designate a new resident agent as required by this subsection, the secretary of state, after giving 30 days notice of the intended action, may declare the entity's public organic document forfeited or, in the case of a foreign entity, the secretary may declare the foreign entity's authority to do business in this state forfeited.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: K.S.A. 17-7926(b)
Administrative dissolution
If the resident agent resigns without a successor and the entity fails to designate a new agent within 60 days of the resignation filing, the Secretary of State shall declare the entity's organizing documents forfeited.
If such covered entity fails to obtain and designate a new resident agent as aforesaid, prior to the expiration of the period of 60 days after the filing by the resident agent of the certificate of resignation, the secretary of state shall declare the entity's organizing documents forfeited.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: K.S.A. 17-7929(b)
Revocation (foreign entities)
For a foreign entity that fails to designate a new resident agent after the agent's death or move, the Secretary of State may declare the foreign entity's authority to do business in Kansas forfeited.
or, in the case of a foreign entity, the secretary may declare the foreign entity's authority to do business in this state forfeited.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: K.S.A. 17-7926(b)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
Revival after forfeiture requires filing all past-due business entity information reports for the preceding 10 years and paying all fees and penalties due (no dollar amounts stated in the captured statutes).
Any corporation that revives its articles of incorporation or authority to engage in business under this code shall file all past due business entity information reports for the immediately preceding 10 years and pay to the secretary of state an amount equal to all fees and any penalties thereon due.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: K.S.A. 17-7002(g)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
After a resident agent's resignation becomes effective with no successor designated, service of legal process on the entity is made upon the Secretary of State in the manner prescribed by K.S.A. 60-304. Similarly, if the agent dies or moves and no new agent is designated within 30 days, service may be made as prescribed by K.S.A. 60-304 (17-7926(b)).
After the resignation of the resident agent shall have become effective, as provided in subsection (a), and if no new resident agent shall have been obtained and designated in the time and manner provided for in subsection (b), service of legal process against the covered entity ... for which the resigned resident agent had been acting shall thereafter be upon the secretary of state in the manner prescribed by K.S.A. 60-304, and amendments thereto.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: K.S.A. 17-7929(c)
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.