Oklahoma Registered Agent
Doing business in Oklahoma? Under state law, all corporations and LLCs need a registered agent to stay in good standing with the Secretary of State. When you have Northwest’s professional Registered Agent Service, we’ll take care of state compliance while you do the real work of running your business. And we’re the only registered agent that provides business services like domains, web hosting, DBAs and more. We give your business a local Oklahoma address where your state paperwork can go, and we’ll forward it on to wherever you are. Read on for more on Oklahoma registered agent requirements, how you can change your registered agent, and how a professional registered agent service can make a difference for your business.
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What Is a Registered Agent in Oklahoma?
Your Oklahoma business designates a registered agent, a person or business that can accept legal mail on behalf of the business. Some business owners choose to serve as their own registered agent, others appoint another individual, and many hire a professional registered agent service to do the job.
Under Oklahoma law, all registered businesses (like corporations and LLCs) must have a registered agent—moreover, you’ll need to provide a registered agent’s name and address when you form a company. Oklahoma state statutes (Title 18, Section 1022 for corporations and Section 2010 for LLCs) go into the specific legal requirements for registered agents, but in brief, your agent must:
- Have a physical address in Oklahoma (No P.O. Boxes allowed).
- Be reachable during normal business hours.
- Be able to accept legal notices for your business, and get them to you promptly.
At Northwest, we think your Oklahoma registered agent should do more for you than just receive mail. We go the extra mile to provide your business with privacy, support and a suite of additional business options.
Name or hire your registered agent first. The Secretary of State will not accept your corporation or LLC filing if you do not list your Oklahoma registered agent.
When you choose Northwest, this also makes things easier on you because after you sign up we provide all the forms and filing instructions you need to file your paperwork with the state.
- State law requires all legitimate, registered businesses to appoint one.
- The secretary of state will reject your business filing if you don’t appoint a registered agent.
- A registered agent requirement gives the public and the state a reliable way to contact your business.
You’re allowed to be your own company’s registered agent in Oklahoma. However, after considering the registered agent requirements most business owners elect to hire a registered agent service instead. Why? Well, while being your own registered agent costs nothing, an Oklahoma registered agent’s name and address becomes part of the public record.
Additionally, a registered agent is required to be available to accept service of process at their registered office location during normal business hours five days a week.
- Perform an Oklahoma business name search with the Secretary of State
- Type in the name of the company you’re searching for.
- The registered agent’s name and registered office street address should be listed with the company’s details.
If you want to legally notify a business through their Oklahoma registered agent service, send a certified letter to the Oklahoma registered agent at their registered office address.
Service of process on a registered agent is legal proof that your has been notified. This is true whether you actually receive the documents from your Oklahoma registered agent, or not. Once the registered agent 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 arrives at the registered office and hands documents (service of process) to the registered agent, who signs for them.
- The process server then gives an affidavit (a receipt of service) to the court as confirmation that they “served” the business.
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.
How Do I Change My Registered Agent in Oklahoma?
There are two ways to change your registered agent in Oklahoma.
- Hire us and we’ll complete the change of agent form for you for free.
- Do it yourself and file a Change of Registered Agent form with the Oklahoma Secretary of State. There is a $25 fee to file this form.
In Oklahoma, to resign as a registered agent, you need to submit a Resignation of Registered Agent form to the Oklahoma Secretary of State’s Business Filing Department. For a more detailed walkthrough, you can refer to our guide on how to resign as a registered agent in Oklahoma.
Why Northwest Is the Best Registered Agent in Oklahoma
Our Oklahoma Registered Agent Service includes the tools you need to keep your business running without a hitch. When you hire Northwest as your registered agent, you get:
- Same-Day Scans: We scan your legal docs the same day we receive them and reach out if your essential mail goes unread.
- Privacy by Default®: We list our business address on public docs to keep your personal info safe. And unlike those other guys, we never sell your data.
- Corporate Guides®: Have questions? We have answers. Our guides are business experts whose sole job is to provide support for all your 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 business phone number for client communications.
- Web hosting: Our web hosting service includes SSL security at no additional cost.
We accept and scan all of our Oklahoma clients’ documents on-site at our registered office in Oklahoma City, OK.
Please do! We’re the only national registered agent service that lets our clients to use our address for everything on the Oklahoma corporation or LLC filings. This way you don’t have to list your own private information. It stays off 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.
How to Order Oklahoma Registered Agent Service
You sign up online, clicking on one of the buttons or links that says “HIRE US.”
We collect the first year’s fee for registered agent service up front.
For new businesses, once your business registration filing with the Oklahoma Secretary of State is complete, we’ll become your Oklahoma registered agent.
About a year later, we’ll send an invoice for another year of Oklahoma registered agent 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 Oklahoma registered agent service or paying a bill but for keeping up with corporate paperwork formalities like the Oklahoma annual report.
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