Georgia registered agents must keep their office where the agent is

What Georgia actually requires

O.C.G.A. § 14-11-209 is Georgia’s LLC registered-agent rule. Each limited liability company shall have and continuously maintain in this state a registered office and a registered agent. The registered agent’s business office address must be identical with the registered office. That is the sentence this page is built on. The agent may be an individual resident of this state, a Georgia corporation or another Georgia LLC, or a foreign corporation or foreign LLC authorized to transact business here. Florida files a written acceptance. Arizona waits on a signed acceptance at the Corporation Commission. Ohio files the acceptance with the Secretary of State. We print that contrast once. We do not invent a fourth Georgia filing rule we did not retrieve.

The Secretary of State Business Division FAQ says the same thing in plain words. An entity cannot be its own registered agent. The registered office must be a street address in Georgia where the agent is located. A P.O. Box or mail drop is not that street. The agent’s business office must be identical with the registered office. Change the agent on the annual registration or an amended annual registration. That FAQ was retrieved from the official page on September 6, 2026. A September 7 fetch of the same URL was Cloudflare-blocked. We print the FAQ from that official-page retrieval. We do not invent a suite from a blocked page. A street address is a place a person can walk up to, like 123 Main Street. We do not treat a P.O. Box as that Georgia street.

O.C.G.A. § 14-11-203 is the formation filing. The articles include the street address and county of the initial registered office and the name of the initial registered agent. O.C.G.A. § 14-11-1103 puts the street address and county of the registered office, and the name of the registered agent, on every annual registration. The first annual registration, and each later one, shall be delivered to the Secretary of State between January 1 and April 1.

O.C.G.A. § 14-11-209(c) is how you change the agent. File an amendment to the annual registration. Name the limited liability company, the street address and county of the registered office, the new street and county if those change, the registered agent, and the successor agent if the agent changes. O.C.G.A. § 14-11-209(d) is resignation. The agent files a statement of resignation with the Secretary of State and mails a copy to the limited liability company on or before that filing. The agency appointment is terminated on the earlier of the filing of a new agent (on an annual registration or a statement) or the 31st day after the statement of resignation is filed. O.C.G.A. § 14-11-209(f) is the fallback. If a limited liability company fails to appoint or maintain a registered agent, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the registered office, the Secretary of State is an agent on whom process may be served. Service on the Secretary of State is a fallback. It is not the everyday job.

O.C.G.A. § 14-11-603 is the 60-day clock. The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding to administratively dissolve a limited liability company if it does not deliver its annual registration within 60 days after it is due, or if it is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for 60 days or more. The Secretary of State then gives written notice. The company has another 60 days after that notice to correct the ground or show it does not exist. After that, the office files a certificate of dissolution. That clock is not the registered-agent job. It is what happens if you drop the agent or miss the annual registration.

O.C.G.A. § 14-2-501 is the corporation pair. Each corporation shall continuously maintain in this state a registered office and a registered agent. The registered agent’s business office shall be identical with the registered office. We print that pair so a corporation reader is not sent to the LLC page alone.

Georgia also files an annual registration. That filing is not the registered-agent job. The Secretary of State how-to-file annual registration page is the official fee table. Retrieved September 6, 2026 from that official page: annual registration for a limited liability company is $60; an amended annual registration is $30; the late penalty is $25. File January 1 through April 1. A September 7 fetch of the same URL was Cloudflare-blocked. We print the table from the September 6 official-page retrieval. We do not invent a third dollar. georgia.gov/renew-llc, last updated June 2026, repeats the April 1 deadline and a physical street for the agent. Mail on that page goes to 2 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Suite 313, Floyd West Tower, Atlanta, GA 30334. That desk is the Secretary of State, not a vendor suite.

The eCorp Business Search is the live lookup. Confirm the live name and street before you treat a marketing city as current. Headquarters is not the registered office. The Secretary of State’s Corporations Division desk at 2 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Suite 313 is not a vendor suite. The Capitol contact at 214 State Capitol is not a vendor suite either.

Cited prices, retrieved September 7, 2026

We print what the company’s official registered-agent page said on the retrieval date. No company publishes a different Georgia registered-agent price from the national card, except where we note a Georgia-page renewal line. We do not invent a renewal.

• Northwest Registered Agent: official page: “$125 Per Year.” Same price in year two on the national card. Five or more states is $100 a year per state. Retrieved September 7, 2026 from northwestregisteredagent.com/registered-agent and the Georgia product page. First year free only if you form through them; we do not treat that bundle as the standalone price.
• Bizee: official registered-agent page: free first year with formation; standalone $149/year; year two $149/year. Retrieved September 7, 2026 from bizee.com/business-management/registered-agent.
• LegalZoom: official overview retrieved September 7, 2026: “Get registered agent services for $249/year.” Product card: $249/year. Footnote: auto-renews at the purchase rate; “The renewal rate is subject to change.” Retrieved from legalzoom.com/…/registered-agent-overview.html. A September 6, 2026 retrieval of that same URL returned 404. We print the price from the live official page we retrieved on September 7. The Georgia registered-agent article URL returned 404 on September 7. We do not invent a street from a missing page.
• ZenBusiness: official Georgia page: “Starts at $99 + GA state fees” for the first year. Renews at $199/year, subject to change. That Georgia page was last updated August 31, 2026. The same national page says they currently do not offer registered-agent service to PLLCs or nonprofits. That is their national exclusion, not a Georgia statute. Retrieved September 7, 2026 from zenbusiness.com/registered-agent and the Georgia product page. That Georgia page publishes no ZenBusiness street or city.

A change of agent is a separate Secretary of State filing. We cite the official how-to fee table, retrieved September 6, 2026, not company blogs. The annual registration is $60. An amended annual registration is $30. The late penalty is $25. ZenBusiness’s Georgia page prints a $20 change fee. That is vendor copy. We prefer the official $30 table.

Who publishes a Georgia street

A city is not a registered office. We print only the streets the companies publish for registered-agent use. We do not invent the rest. Confirm the live name and street on the eCorp Business Search before you file. Headquarters is not the registered office. The Secretary of State’s Atlanta contacts are not vendor suites.

• Northwest. The Georgia FAQ answers “Where is Northwest’s registered office in Georgia?” with “We accept and scan all of our Georgia clients’ documents on-site at our registered office in Atlanta, GA.” No street is published. Same-day local scans and instant notices are vendor-claimed. The product page also says the agent must be available during regular business hours, typically 9 AM to 5 PM. That 9-to-5 line is vendor copy. We have not been to an Atlanta office.
• Bizee. Claims owned offices in all 50 states. The official registered-agent page names no Georgia street. The contact page lists 17350 State Highway 249, Suite 220, Houston, TX 77064 as headquarters. That address is not a Georgia registered-agent street.
• LegalZoom. The official registered-agent overview does not publish a Georgia street. The Georgia registered-agent article URL returned 404 on September 7, 2026. We do not invent a suite. We do not treat a LegalZoom virtual-mail street as the registered-agent street.
• ZenBusiness. The Georgia product page publishes no ZenBusiness street or city. The product page shows a Secretary of State contact at 214 State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia 30334, and Secretary of State hours Monday–Friday 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Those lines are the Secretary of State, not ZenBusiness’s registered office. We do not treat the Capitol line as their street. The Corporations Division mailing desk on georgia.gov/renew-llc is 2 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Suite 313. That is not a vendor suite either. We will not invent a suite.

If you are your own agent, the street on the public record is often your home. If you hire a commercial registered agent, the agent line is that organization’s name and its Georgia street. Northwest names Atlanta and no street. Bizee, LegalZoom, and ZenBusiness publish no Georgia street. We label every city vendor-claimed. We have not been to those offices. Use the eCorp Business Search.

In-state office and the identical-address rule

Georgia wants an in-state street where the agent is located, and a registered office that matches the agent’s business office. The company may not serve as its own registered agent. The annual registration window is January 1 to April 1. Change the agent on that registration, or on an amended annual registration if you change it earlier. Stay without an agent or office for 60 days, or miss the annual registration by 60 days after it is due, and the Secretary of State can start a dissolution after written notice and another 60 days to cure. Georgia does not run a Nevada-style ten-company commercial-agent register, and it does not post a Florida-style 10–noon / 2–4 clock. Northwest claims Atlanta and no street. LegalZoom’s official overview names no Georgia street. ZenBusiness’s Georgia product page names no ZenBusiness street. The Capitol and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive lines are the Secretary of State. Bizee names no Georgia street. Process Score has not been to those offices. We do not treat a company 9-to-5 line as O.C.G.A. § 14-11-209.

Service of process, not marketing mail

We grade scan-and-forward of service of process and official notices:

• Bizee: notifications by text and email; court papers mailed via FedEx with tracking; portal upload by employees.
• Northwest: “We scan every document you receive right where you receive it—in our office.” The Georgia page adds same-day local Atlanta scans and instant notices. Their mail-forwarding extras are a different product. We do not grade those extras as a mailbox.
• LegalZoom: upload, email, and a postcard for urgent legal mail; they say they shred junk mail. Junk-mail shredding is not the job we score.
• ZenBusiness: scan and upload to a dashboard; email; overnight the original for urgent legal notices. Their own FAQ says you cannot use the agent address as your business address. Their national product currently excludes PLLCs and nonprofits; that is their exclusion, not a Georgia statute.

Home-address privacy

A commercial organizational agent is how most Georgia owners keep a home off the agent line. The Secretary of State still publishes whatever other addresses you put on articles or an annual registration. Privacy of the agent line is not privacy of every field. Confirm the live line on the eCorp Business Search.

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What this page does not do

• It does not rank mailbox networks or virtual offices.
• It does not publish combined star ratings or a fake 4.8.
• It does not treat a company 9-to-5 line as O.C.G.A. § 14-11-209.
• It does not treat the 60-day administrative-dissolution clocks as optional. After written notice and the cure window, Georgia can dissolve the company.
• It does not treat a Houston headquarters as a Georgia street.
• It does not treat 214 State Capitol or 2 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive as a vendor suite. Those contacts are the Secretary of State.
• It does not invent a Georgia-only price a company did not print.
• It does not invent a ZenBusiness Georgia street the product page does not publish.
• It does not treat the annual registration as the registered-agent job.
• It does not invent a Georgia filing rule we did not retrieve.

Choosing among being the agent yourself, asking a lawyer, or hiring a commercial agent: DIY vs lawyer vs commercial. California’s scorecard is a different statute: California scorecard. Texas keeps the written consent with the company: Texas scorecard. Florida files the acceptance and posts a 10–noon / 2–4 clock: Florida scorecard. Delaware bans a virtual-only agent and sets the commercial bar above 50: Delaware scorecard. New York starts with the Secretary of State already on the agent line: New York scorecard. Nevada makes a commercial agent register at ten companies: Nevada scorecard. Wyoming bans UPS stores and virtual addresses as the registered office: Wyoming scorecard. Arizona makes the statutory-agent appointment wait on a signed acceptance: Arizona scorecard. Illinois gives you 60 days after your agent resigns, then you are not in good standing: Illinois scorecard. Ohio cancels the articles if you miss the 30-day statutory-agent notice: Ohio scorecard.