A Hawaii LLC shall keep a registered agent with DCCA — Form X-7 is $25, and the annual-report statute says $25 while the fee table says $15

What Hawaii actually requires

HRS §428-107 is the LLC duty, and it is a duty. A limited liability company and a foreign limited liability company authorized to transact business in this State shall continuously maintain in this State a registered agent, who shall have a business address in this State and may be an individual who resides in this State, a domestic entity authorized to transact business in this State, or a foreign entity authorized to transact business in this State. The history line is 1996, with amendments in 2003 and in 2009. The 2009 amendment is the one that points the mechanics at chapter 425R. The section does not print the words “registered office.” It does not print an age of 18. It does not print “no P.O. Box.” It does not print a sentence that a company may never be its own agent. The information sheet says the registered agent shall be either an individual residing in this State or a domestic or foreign entity authorized to transact business in this State, and it tells you to read HRS §428-107. The statute’s word for the list is “may.” The sheet’s word for the same list is “shall be either.” We print both. We do not invent a winner. Northwest’s Hawaii page says every LLC and corporation doing business in Hawaii must maintain a registered agent, and that the division will reject the filing if you do not appoint one. The “must” can match the statute’s “shall.” The rejection sentence is Northwest copy. HRS §428-203 says the articles shall set forth the agent information. It does not print the word “reject.” Bizee’s Hawaii page says Hawaii law requires every LLC to appoint and continuously maintain a registered agent, and that an individual agent must be at least 18. The duty sentence can match HRS §428-107. The age of 18 is not in that section. ZenBusiness’s Hawaii page, last updated August 26, 2025, quotes the three-part list and then says a business entity cannot act as its own registered agent. HRS §428-107 does not print that ban. Form C5’s instructions say a domestic limited liability company cannot be its own agent. We print the statute, the form, and ZenBusiness. We do not move the form’s sentence into HRS §428-107, and we do not treat ZenBusiness’s wider “business entity” sentence as the form’s LLC sentence.

HRS §425R-4 is how the filing names the agent. A registered agent filing shall state the name of the represented entity’s commercial registered agent. If there is no commercial agent, the filing states the name and the address of a place of business of the noncommercial agent, or the title of an office or other position with the entity if service is to be sent to the person holding that office, and the address of that person’s business office in the State. That title path has to fit HRS §428-110 and the other sections the statute lists. The appointment of a commercial agent, or of a named noncommercial agent, is an affirmation that the agent has consented to serve. The official text puts brackets around the noncommercial clause in that affirmation sentence. We print the brackets. We do not invent a separate Florida-style acceptance filed as its own record. HRS §428-203 says the articles of organization shall set forth the mailing address of the company’s initial principal office and the information required by HRS §425R-4. Form LLC-1, 11/2025, repeats the “shall” and the “may,” and it asks for the street address of the agent’s place of business, labeled “Number and Street,” with the state line set to Hawaii. The form’s fee line is $50. HRS §428-1301 prices articles of organization at $100. The domestic LLC page and the fee table also print $50, plus $25 for expedited service. Bizee’s Hawaii page prints a $50 articles fee. That dollar matches the form and the table. It does not match HRS §428-1301. We print $100 and $50. We do not invent a winner.

HRS §425R-1 is the word list for the shared act. A commercial registered agent is an individual or a domestic or foreign entity that is listed under HRS §425R-5. A noncommercial registered agent is a person that is not on that list and that serves as the agent for service of process, or the person who holds the office the filing named. HRS §425R-5 says an individual or a domestic or foreign entity may become listed by filing a commercial registered agent listing statement. The statement says the person is in the business of serving as a commercial registered agent in the State, and it states the address of a place of business in the State where process may be delivered. The listing takes effect on filing. The director notes it in the business registry for each entity that agent already represents, and the statement deletes the agent’s address from each of those entities’ own filings. HRS §425R-2 prices that listing statement at $100. The LLC fee table prices “Commercial Registered Agent Listing Statement” at $100, and the termination statement at $25. Those dollars match. Hawaii does not run a Nevada-style ten-company commercial-agent register. The commercial bar here is the listing itself, and the statute prints the $100.

HRS §425R-3 is the street rule. Whenever this chapter requires a filing to state an address, except the address on the resignation notice for the person who will get the agent’s own notice, the filing shall state an actual street address or rural route box number in the State. A rural route box can be that line. The section does not add Montana’s extra sentence that a mailing address may differ. It does not print the words “no P.O. Box.” A post office box alone is not an actual street address. Form LLC-1 and Form X-7 label the agent line “Number and Street.” The FAQ says a registered agent must be an individual or entity authorized to transact business in this State and must be physically present in the State. HRS §428-107 says an individual who resides here, or an entity authorized to transact business here, and that the agent shall have a business address. We print the FAQ’s “physically present” sentence and the statute’s “resides” and “business address.” We do not invent a winner. Northwest’s Hawaii page says a physical street address and “no P.O. Boxes,” and that a person who serves as their own agent keeps regular business hours, which that page also prints as 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Bizee’s page says a P.O. Box alone does not satisfy the requirement and talks about normal business hours. ZenBusiness says a physical street address, not a P.O. box, and that the agent must be available during all normal business hours. HRS §425R-11 does not post Florida-style clock windows. We print the vendors’ hours sentences as vendor copy. We do not treat a company 9-to-5 line as HRS §425R-3, and we do not erase the rural route box.

HRS §428-108 is how a limited liability company changes the line. The company may change its registered agent by complying with HRS §425R-7. If the agent changes its name, its address, or its type or jurisdiction of organization, the agent shall comply with section 425R-8 or 425R-9, whichever applies. The “may” is the company’s choice to file a change. The “shall” is the agent’s own duty when the agent’s information changes. HRS §425R-7 says the entity files a certified statement of change with the director. Interest holders or governors need not approve it. The appointment in that statement is an affirmation that the agent consented. The statement takes effect on filing. The same section mentions a “registered office” only when it talks about a similar filing in any other jurisdiction. It does not create a Hawaii registered-office duty inside HRS §428-107. Form X-7, 11/2025, is the statement of change of registered agent by entity, under section 425R-7. The fee on the form is $25 for 200 or fewer affected entities, and $1 each for 201 or more. An LLP on that form is $25 plus the general-partnership fee of $25, which the form totals at $50. That LLP line is not the LLC fee. The entity signs the form. The instructions do not say the new agent must sign. HRS §425R-2 prices a statement of change at $25 for each affected entity, reduced to $1 if more than two hundred simultaneous filings are made. The fee table row is “Statement of Change/Resignation of Registered Agent, Limited Liability Company” at $25, and $1 for each LLC when 201 or more are filed at once. ZenBusiness prints the statement of change at $25, online or by mail. That dollar matches the statute, the form, and the table. Northwest’s Hawaii product page says they will complete the change of agent form for you for free, and it does not print $25. Northwest’s change page says Form X-7 costs $25, that they will file it for free and pay the state fee, and that expedited review is an additional $25. The $25 change matches the statute. The extra $25 matches the fee table’s expedited column and HRS §428-1301’s special handling fee of $25. The same change page says Hawaii does not allow you to change the agent by filing an amendment, and that you may change the agent on the annual report. One step on that page says “Alaska Statement of Change” while the heading is Hawaii. We print the Alaska word as Northwest copy. We do not treat it as a Hawaii form. Bizee’s Hawaii page says you file an amendment with DCCA when the agent changes, and it does not print $25. Articles of amendment are a different paper. The fee table prices them at $25 too. The change we read is Form X-7 under HRS §425R-7. We print Bizee’s “amendment” and Northwest’s “not an amendment.” We do not treat an articles-of-amendment filing as Form X-7.

HRS §428-109 says an agent may resign by complying with HRS §425R-10. The statement names the entity, names the agent, says the agent resigns, and names the person to whom the agent will send notice. It takes effect on the earlier of the thirty-first day after the day it is filed or the appointment of a new registered agent. The agent shall promptly give the entity notice of the filing date. When the resignation takes effect, the agent ceases to have responsibility for matter tendered to it as agent. A contract between the entity and the agent is a different paper. The agent may resign whether or not the entity is in good standing. HRS §425R-2 prices the statement of resignation at $25 for each affected entity, or $1 each above two hundred. Form X-9, 11/2025, prints a nonrefundable filing fee of $25 and cites HRS §428-109 and HRS §425R-10. ZenBusiness prints the 31-day sentence and a $25 resignation fee. Those two sentences match the statute and the form. Northwest’s product page says you file a statement of resignation and does not print $25. We do not invent a Northwest resignation dollar the product page did not print. The information sheet says the resignation takes effect on the thirty-first day or when a new agent is appointed, and it cites HRS §428-109. The same sheet, on the agent’s own address change, cites section 414-108. HRS §428-108 cites 425R-8 or 425R-9. We print the sheet’s 414-108 citation. We do not move it into HRS §428-108.

HRS §425R-11 is the job, in the statute’s own short list. The only duties under this chapter of a registered agent that has complied with the chapter are to forward to the entity, at the address the entity most recently supplied, any process, notice, or demand served on the agent; to provide the notices this chapter requires; and to keep the agent’s own information current. A noncommercial agent keeps the information in the entity’s most recent registered agent filing. A commercial agent keeps the information on its listing. Forwarding court papers is the job. A scan of a catalog is not on that list.

HRS §428-110 is the LLC service path. Service of any notice or process may be made upon any registered agent, upon a manager if the company is manager-managed, or upon a member if the company is member-managed, who is found within the jurisdiction. If none of those can be found, service may be made upon any person found in charge of the property, business, or office of the company. If no manager, member, or other person in charge can be found within the State, and the company has not filed with the director the name of a registered agent, or the person named is not found within the State, service may be made by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the company at its principal office. Service by that mail is perfected at the earliest of the date the company receives the mail, the date on the return receipt if signed on behalf of the company, or five days after deposit in the United States mail, if mailed postpaid and correctly addressed. The section says this is not the only means of service. It does not name the director as the person you serve. HRS §428-1301 still prices “any service of notice, demand, or process upon the director as agent for service of process” at $10, and it says that amount may be recovered as taxable costs by the party who prevails. The fee table prints “Service of Process on the Director of the Department” at $10, with no expedited fee. We print the $10 row and the service section that does not use it. We do not invent a path that makes the director the LLC’s substitute agent. We do not invent Florida-style 10-to-noon and 2-to-4 windows.

The corporation rule is a different chapter, and it is still a “shall.” HRS §414-61 says each corporation shall continuously maintain in this State a registered agent, who shall have a business address in this State and may be an individual who resides in this State, a domestic entity authorized to transact business or conduct affairs in this State, or a foreign entity authorized to transact business or conduct affairs in this State. The extra words are “or conduct affairs.” The LLC list does not use them. HRS §414-62 says a corporation that does not already have a registered agent shall designate one under HRS §425R-4, and may change the agent under HRS §425R-7. HRS §414-64 lets you serve a registered agent, an officer, or a director of the corporation who is found in the jurisdiction. That “director” is a director of the corporation. It is not the director of commerce and consumer affairs. If none of those can be found, you may serve the manager or superintendent, or a person in charge of the property, business, or office. If no one in charge can be found in the State, and the corporation has not filed a registered agent with the department director, or the person named is not found in the State, service may be by registered or certified mail to the principal office, perfected on the same three dates as the LLC mail path. We do not treat the corporation’s own director as the DCCA director, and we do not treat the LLC mail path as this officer-or-director path.

The annual report is a different paper. Say it once so the dollars do not get mixed up with the agent’s job. HRS §428-210 says each limited liability company, and each foreign limited liability company authorized to transact business here, shall deliver to the director an annual report that sets forth the name and the jurisdiction, the mailing address of the principal office and the information required by HRS §425R-4, and whether the company is manager-managed, with the managers and the number of members, or the members. Effective January 1, 2003, the due day follows the date of organization or registration. January 1 through March 31 is due on or before March 31, and the report reflects affairs as of January 1. April 1 through June 30 is due on or before June 30, as of April 1. July 1 through September 30 is due on or before September 30, as of July 1. October 1 through December 31 is due on or before December 31, as of October 1. If the company is organized in the same year the report would be due, it shall not file an annual report for that year. If the report is missing required information, the director returns it, and a correction delivered within 30 days after the date it was mailed back is timely. HRS §414-472 uses the same four quarter-ends for a domestic corporation and for a foreign corporation authorized to transact business here. The corporation report also lists directors and officers and a brief description of the business, and a domestic corporation adds share counts. These are annual reports. They are not biennial reports. The FAQ prints the same four dates and the same skip for the year of registration. Bizee’s page says the annual report is due annually by the last day of the LLC’s anniversary quarter. That sentence can match the four dates. It does not print $25, $15, or $12.50.

The dollars for that report are not one number. HRS §428-1301 prices the annual report at $25 and articles of organization at $100. HRS §414-13 prices a profit corporation’s annual report at $25 and articles of incorporation at $100. The LLC fee table prices the annual report at $15 and articles of organization at $50. The domestic profit corporation fee table prices the annual report at $15 and articles of incorporation at $50. Form LLC-1 prints $50. Form C5 prints a filing fee of $15 and says the $15 must be submitted with the report. The information sheet prints $15 for the paper annual report and $12.50 for the online filing. We print the statute’s $25 and $100, the tables’ $15 and $50, the forms’ $50 and $15, and the sheet’s $12.50. We do not invent a winner, and we do not invent a fourth annual-report dollar. Form C5 also says that if the agent name or street has changed, line it out and print the change on the right. Northwest’s change page says you may change the agent on the annual report. That form instruction and that vendor sentence can sit next to each other. They do not erase Form X-7. The report lists the agent. A lined-out change on Form C5 is still not the job of taking court papers. The $15 on that form is not the $25 on Form X-7.

The late-fee sentences are also not one number. HRS §428-1302 says a company that fails to file its annual report within the time prescribed shall be subject to a forfeiture of an amount to be determined by the director not exceeding $100 for every such offense, and that a continuance of the failure is a separate offense for each thirty days of the continuance. The director, for good cause shown, may reduce or waive that penalty. The same section’s false-statement sentences are class C felonies. We do not score those crimes. We print the forfeiture so the $100 is not confused with Form X-7. Form C5’s instructions say failure to file within the prescribed time subjects the company to a maximum penalty of $100 for every thirty days the delinquency continues. The information sheet says a penalty not exceeding $100 for each thirty-day period, and it also says a $10 late fee will be assessed per year delinquent if you file the missing report online. HRS §414-473 uses the same “not exceeding $100” forfeiture for a corporation, with each thirty days of continuance as a separate offense, and the same power to reduce or waive. We print the statute’s “not exceeding $100,” Form C5’s “maximum penalty of $100 for every thirty days,” and the sheet’s $10 online late fee. We do not invent a winner.

HRS §428-809 is the termination list. The director may commence a proceeding to terminate a limited liability company administratively if the company fails to pay any fees prescribed by law, fails to file its annual report for a period of two years, fails to appoint and maintain an agent for service of process as required by this part, or fails to file a statement of a change in the name or business address of the agent as required by this part. “This part” is Part VIII, the winding-up part. The duty to keep the agent is printed in HRS §428-107, which is Part I. We print both section numbers. We do not invent a sentence that moves HRS §428-107 into Part VIII. The information sheet says the director may terminate the company if it has not, pursuant to HRS §428-210, filed its annual report for two years, and it cites HRS §428-809. Form C5 says the director may administratively terminate the company for failure to maintain a registered agent and registered office. HRS §428-809 says “agent for service of process” and “name or business address of the agent.” It does not print “registered office.” We print the form’s “registered office.” We do not treat that form word as HRS §428-107. HRS §428-810 says that before the director declares the company terminated, the director shall mail a notice of the grounds and may give public notice. If the company does not correct each ground, or show that the ground does not exist, within sixty days after the notice is mailed, the director shall administratively terminate the company by a decree. Administrative termination does not terminate the authority of the agent for service of process. The company may carry on only the business needed to wind up. HRS §428-811 says the company may apply for reinstatement within two years after the effective date. The application recites the name and the date, contains all reports due and unfiled, contains payment of all delinquent fees and penalties, and contains a certificate or other writing from the director of taxation that taxes have been paid, a payment arrangement has been entered into, or the unpaid taxes are being contested. When reinstatement is effective, it relates back. The fee table prices “Application of Reinstatement” at $25. HRS §428-1301 prices the reinstatement application at $25. Those two dollars match. Bizee’s page says the state can administratively dissolve the LLC and that limited liability protection is at risk. HRS §428-809 says administratively terminate. It does not print “dissolve,” and it does not print a sentence about liability protection. We print Bizee’s words and the statute’s word. We do not invent a winner.

The public lookup sits on the Business Name Search. Confirm the live line on the search before you treat a marketing city as current. The FAQ says information filed with the office is public and can be viewed by searching the entity name. Hawaii Business Express at hbe.ehawaii.gov tells you the new portal is hbe.dcca.hawaii.gov. The forms print BusinessRegistrations.com. We print those hosts. We do not invent a fourth one. Headquarters is not the registered-agent street. The department’s Honolulu contacts are not a vendor suite.

Form LLC-1 and Form X-9 print the street address as 335 Merchant Street, Room 201, Honolulu, HI 96813, and the mailing address as P.O. Box 40, Honolulu, HI 96810. Both forms print the phone (808) 586-2727, the fax (808) 586-2733, and breg@dcca.hawaii.gov. The domestic LLC page prints the same street, the same box, and (808) 586-2727. The Business Registration Division home page prints 1-844-808-3222 and the same King Kalakaua Building room. One open of the FAQ printed 1-844-808-3222, select option 2, Monday through Friday, 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. HST. A later open of that FAQ printed (808) 586-2727 and the same hours. ZenBusiness’s contact table prints 808-587-3222, P.O. Box 40, and 335 Merchant St., Room 201. We print the form’s 586-2727, the home page’s 844 number, the two FAQ lines, and ZenBusiness’s 587-3222. We do not invent a winner. Those lines are department contacts as the forms and the vendor table print them. They are not a vendor’s registered office. Those lobby hours are the office’s hours. They are not a statutory agent clock. Hawaii does not post Florida-style 10-to-noon and 2-to-4 windows. We do not treat a company 9-to-5 line as HRS §425R-11.

Cited prices, retrieved September 24, 2026

We print what the company’s official registered-agent page said on the retrieval date. No company publishes a different Hawaii registered-agent price from the national card, except where we note a Hawaii-page sentence. 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 24, 2026 from northwestregisteredagent.com/registered-agent and the Hawaii product page. The Hawaii page says they collect the first year’s fee up front and send an invoice about a year later. First year free only if you form through them. We do not treat that bundle as the standalone price. The page says the downtown Honolulu office is blocks from the department, and that scans are local. It does not print a street. The same company also sells extra mail scans: five free scans of regular business mail a year, then $15 a document. Those extras are a different product. We do not grade those extras as the registered-agent job. The product page says they will complete the change of agent form for you for free and does not print $25. The change page prints Form X-7 at $25 and says they will pay that state fee. HRS §425R-2 prices the statement of change at $25. We print both Northwest sentences. We do not treat “for free” as the statute’s $25. The same change page says a limited partnership’s filing fee is $10. Form X-7’s LLP line is $50. We print both. We do not move $10 onto the LLC row. The product page says the agent must list a physical street address, says “no P.O. Boxes,” and prints 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for an owner who serves. HRS §425R-3 allows a street or a rural route box. We do not treat Northwest’s hours line as HRS §425R-11.
• Bizee: official registered-agent page: free first year with formation; standalone $149/year; year two $149/year. Retrieved September 24, 2026 from bizee.com/business-management/registered-agent and the Hawaii product page. That page says the articles fee is $50 and that the annual report is due by the last day of the anniversary quarter. The fee table and Form LLC-1 print $50. HRS §428-1301 prints $100. HRS §428-210 prints the four quarter-ends. The page does not print $15, $12.50, or $25 for the report, and it does not print the $25 change. It says you file an amendment to update the agent. The change we read is Form X-7. It says the state can administratively dissolve the company. HRS §428-809 says terminate. It says an individual agent must be at least 18. HRS §428-107 does not print an age. After a free first year with formation, the page’s national card says the service is $149 a year. The Hawaii page names no Hawaii street. We print those vendor sentences. We do not invent a Hawaii-only price from a missing dollar.
• LegalZoom: official overview retrieved September 24, 2026 on this site’s other scorecards: “$249/year.” The footnote says the service auto-renews at the purchase rate until you cancel, and the renewal rate is subject to change. The purchase price is for a first-time registered-agent customer. We do not invent a year-two number LegalZoom did not print. Retrieved from legalzoom.com/…/registered-agent-overview.html. We opened /articles/hawaii-registered-agent on September 24, 2026. That URL said the page isn’t here. We do not invent a Hawaii street, a Hawaii city, or a Hawaii change dollar from a missing article. The overview talks about normal business hours. That clock is LegalZoom copy. We do not invent a higher year-two number.
• ZenBusiness: official pricing help page: $99 plus state fees for the first year, and renewal at $199 a year. Retrieved September 24, 2026 from the pricing help page and the Hawaii page. The Hawaii page was last updated August 26, 2025. It does not print $99 or $199. It talks about $100 to a few hundred dollars a year as a market range. That range is not a ZenBusiness price. It prints the statement of change at $25 and a resignation that stays in place for 31 days with a $25 fee. Those sentences match Form X-7, Form X-9, HRS §425R-2, and HRS §425R-10. It says a business entity cannot act as its own agent, and it also says you can serve yourself if you live in Hawaii and are available during all normal business hours. Form C5 says a domestic limited liability company cannot be its own agent. HRS §428-107 lets an individual resident serve and does not print the entity ban. The page publishes no ZenBusiness street. It prints department contacts, including 808-587-3222. The forms we opened print (808) 586-2727. The national page says they currently do not offer registered-agent service to PLLCs or nonprofits. That is their national exclusion, not a Hawaii statute. We keep the $99 and $199 card. We do not invent a Hawaii-only price.

A change of agent is a separate DCCA filing. Form X-7, the fee table, and HRS §425R-2 price it at $25. ZenBusiness prints $25. Northwest’s change page prints $25 and says their service pays it. Northwest’s product page says the form is free and does not print $25. Bizee does not print $25. LegalZoom’s missing Hawaii article does not print a change dollar. The annual report can list the agent, and Form C5 lets you line out a new one. It is still not the registered-agent job. The statute’s $25 report, the table’s $15, and the sheet’s $12.50 are not this change.

Who publishes a Hawaii 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 address on the Business Name Search before you file. Headquarters is not the registered-agent street. The department’s Honolulu contacts are not vendor suites.

• Northwest. The Hawaii product page says the downtown Honolulu office is blocks from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. It does not print a street or a suite. We do not invent a Merchant Street number for Northwest, and we do not treat Room 201 as their suite. Northwest also sells extra mail scans. Those extras are a different product. The city is vendor-claimed. Use the business search for the name on your own filing.
• Bizee. Claims owned offices in all 50 states. The official registered-agent page names no Hawaii street. The live Hawaii product page names no Hawaii street. The contact page lists 17350 State Highway 249, Suite 220, Houston, TX 77064 as headquarters. That address is not a Hawaii registered-agent street.
• LegalZoom. The Hawaii article URL we opened is not a live article. The official overview publishes no Hawaii city and no Hawaii street. We do not invent a Honolulu suite. We do not treat a LegalZoom virtual-mail street as the registered-agent street.
• ZenBusiness. The Hawaii registered-agent page publishes no ZenBusiness street or city. It prints department contacts at P.O. Box 40 and 335 Merchant St., Room 201. Those lines are the office. They are not ZenBusiness. We do not treat Room 201 as their suite.

If you are your own agent, the address on the public record is often your home. HRS §428-107 lets an individual who resides in this State serve. Northwest and ZenBusiness say you can serve yourself if you live in Hawaii. Form C5 says a domestic limited liability company cannot be its own agent. That sentence is about the company, not about an owner who lives here. A commercial mailbox is not the street line in HRS §425R-3. If you hire a company, the agent line is that organization’s name, and the address on the filing still has to match the form you are filing. Northwest’s product page names downtown Honolulu and prints no street. Bizee publishes no Hawaii street. LegalZoom publishes no city and no street. ZenBusiness publishes department contacts, not a ZenBusiness suite. We label every published city vendor-claimed. Use the business search.

The $25 change, the three report dollars, and the two-year clock

A Hawaii limited liability company shall keep a registered agent with a business address in this State. The agent may be a resident individual or an entity authorized to transact business here. Chapter 425R turns a required address into a street or a rural route box. The company may change the agent on Form X-7. The statute, the form, and the fee table price that change at $25. The agent’s resignation on Form X-9 is also $25, and it ends on the thirty-first day or sooner. A commercial agent lists for $100. That listing is not a ten-company register. If no agent, manager, or member can be found, HRS §428-110 uses registered or certified mail to the principal office, perfected at receipt, at a signed return, or five days after mailing. The fee statute still prices service on the director at $10. The service section does not name the director. The annual report follows the registration quarter and ends on March 31, June 30, September 30, or December 31. The company skips the report in the year it is organized. HRS §428-1301 prices the report at $25 and the articles at $100. The fee table and Form C5 price the report at $15. Form LLC-1 and the fee table price the articles at $50. The information sheet prices the online report at $12.50 and adds a $10 late fee per delinquent year. The statute’s forfeiture is not exceeding $100 for each thirty days, and the director may reduce or waive it. Miss the report for two years, or miss the agent ground HRS §428-809 prints, and the director may terminate the company after notice and 60 days. You can apply to put it back within two years. That application needs a writing from the director of taxation. The report lists the agent. Form C5 lets you line out a new agent. It is not the job. A corporation shall keep a registered agent too. Service on a corporation can start with an officer or a director of that corporation. That person is not the DCCA director. Hawaii does not post a Florida-style 10-to-noon and 2-to-4 clock, and it does not run a Nevada-style ten-company commercial-agent register. Northwest’s product page claims downtown Honolulu and prints no street. LegalZoom’s Hawaii article is not a live page. ZenBusiness publishes department contacts, not a ZenBusiness suite. Bizee names no Hawaii street. Process Score has not been to those offices. We do not treat a company 9-to-5 line as HRS §425R-11.

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. The Hawaii page talks about a physical street and does not print a Hawaii street. Contact-page support hours are Monday–Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. CST. Those are support hours, not registered-office hours.
• Northwest: “We scan every document you receive right where you receive it—in our office.” The Hawaii page adds local scans at the Honolulu office. Their extra mail-scan product is 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. The Hawaii article is not a live page. Junk-mail shredding is not the job we score. That clock is not the statute.
• 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 Hawaii statute. The Hawaii page prints department contacts. Those lines are office copy. They are not HRS §425R-4.

Home-address privacy

Naming a commercial agent is how many Hawaii owners keep a home off the agent line. The department still publishes the agent name and address when one is on file, and the annual report still lists managers or members. Privacy of the agent line is not privacy of every field. A Hawaii limited liability company shall keep a registered agent. It cannot leave that line blank. A blank line is not the same thing as a private line. Confirm the live line on the business search.

Scorecards

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 HRS §425R-11.
• It does not treat the annual report, or the statute’s $25, or the fee table’s $15, or the online $12.50, as the registered-agent job. The report lists the agent. The job is taking court papers.
• It does not turn the LLC “shall” into a “may.” HRS §428-107 says the company shall keep an agent. The “may” is only the list of who can serve.
• It does not turn the information sheet’s “shall be either” into a rewrite of the statute’s “may.” We print both.
• It does not invent a winner between the statute’s $100 articles and $25 annual report and the fee table’s $50 and $15. Form LLC-1 prints $50. Form C5 prints $15. The information sheet prints $12.50 online.
• It does not invent a winner between the statute’s forfeiture of not exceeding $100 for each thirty days and the information sheet’s $10 online late fee per delinquent year.
• It does not treat Form C5’s lined-out agent as a substitute for Form X-7. The report can show a change. The change statute is still HRS §425R-7 at $25.
• It does not treat Bizee’s “amendment” as Form X-7. Northwest’s change page says Hawaii does not allow the change by amendment. The paper we read is the statement of change.
• It does not treat Northwest’s “for free” product-page sentence as the statute’s $25. The change page prints $25 and says Northwest pays it.
• It does not move Northwest’s $10 limited-partnership sentence onto the LLC row. Form X-7 prices an LLP filing at $50.
• It does not treat Northwest’s “Alaska Statement of Change” sentence as a Hawaii form.
• It does not invent an age of 18. Bizee prints 18. HRS §428-107 does not.
• It does not treat ZenBusiness’s “a business entity cannot act as its own agent” as HRS §428-107. Form C5 says a domestic limited liability company cannot be its own agent. An individual resident may serve.
• It does not invent a sentence that a Hawaii owner may never be the agent. That is not what HRS §428-107 prints.
• It does not move the information sheet’s section 414-108 citation into HRS §428-108. The LLC section we read cites 425R-8 or 425R-9.
• It does not treat the director as the LLC’s substitute agent. HRS §428-110 uses mail to the principal office. HRS §428-1301 still prices service on the director at $10.
• It does not treat a corporation’s own director, in HRS §414-64, as the director of commerce and consumer affairs.
• It does not treat “this part” in HRS §428-809 as if the section had named HRS §428-107. Part VIII is the winding-up part. The duty to keep the agent is in Part I.
• It does not treat Bizee’s “administratively dissolve” as the statute’s “administratively terminate.”
• It does not treat Form C5’s “registered office” as a word HRS §428-107 printed.
• It does not treat a Houston headquarters as a Hawaii street.
• It does not treat 335 Merchant Street, Room 201, or P.O. Box 40, as a vendor suite. Those contacts are the department.
• It does not invent a winner among (808) 586-2727, 1-844-808-3222, and ZenBusiness’s 808-587-3222.
• It does not invent a Hawaii-only price a company did not print.
• It does not invent a Honolulu street, or a LegalZoom street, the pages did not print.
• It does not treat a post office box alone as the street line. A rural route box can be that line. HRS §425R-3 does not print “no P.O. Box.”
• It does not pretend a Hawaii limited liability company may skip the registered agent. HRS §428-107 says the company shall keep one.
• It does not treat Northwest’s extra mail-scan product as the registered-agent job.
• It does not treat ZenBusiness’s exclusion of PLLCs and nonprofits as a Hawaii statute.
• It does not treat ZenBusiness’s “$100 to a few hundred” range as ZenBusiness’s Hawaii price.
• It does not score Hawaii tax filings. A director of taxation writing on reinstatement is not the registered-agent job. General excise tax is not this filing.

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. Georgia wants the registered office at the same street as the agent: Georgia scorecard. Pennsylvania files a registered office, not a registered agent: Pennsylvania scorecard. New Jersey wants a street for your registered agent and will not take a P.O. Box alone: New Jersey scorecard. Colorado will not take a commercial mailbox or a P.O. Box as the registered-agent street: Colorado scorecard. North Carolina’s LLC annual report is $200 paper or $203 online by April 15. That filing is not the registered-agent job: North Carolina scorecard. Virginia’s LLC pays a $50 annual registration fee and files no annual report: Virginia scorecard. Washington files the agent’s prior consent and will not take a P.O. Box or a PMB as the street: Washington scorecard. Michigan’s statute names a resident agent and sends the filing to LARA: Michigan scorecard. Indiana’s live statute names a registered agent. Older Indiana law called the same job resident agent: Indiana scorecard. Massachusetts’s LLC statute names a resident agent. The $500 annual report cannot change that line: Massachusetts scorecard. Maryland’s statute names a resident agent and sends the filing to SDAT, not the Secretary of State: Maryland scorecard. Tennessee wants a registered office and a registered agent at the same street. The $300 LLC annual report is not that job: Tennessee scorecard. Minnesota wants a registered office. A Minnesota-formed company may name an agent. The free December 31 renewal is not that job: Minnesota scorecard. Wisconsin files the agent at DFI, not the Secretary of State. A P.O. Box, a mailbox service, or a telephone answering service is not the office: Wisconsin scorecard. Oregon’s street cannot be a commercial mail receiving agency, a mail-forwarding shop, or a virtual office. The $100 anniversary renewal is not the registered-agent job: Oregon scorecard. Missouri LLCs file no annual report with the Secretary of State. They still must keep a registered office and a registered agent: Missouri scorecard. Alabama’s street cannot be solely a mailbox service or a telephone answering service. The Business Privilege Tax return is a Department of Revenue paper: Alabama scorecard. South Carolina’s LLC statute names a designated office and an agent for service of process. Typical pass-through LLCs file no annual report with the Secretary of State: South Carolina scorecard. Arkansas’s LLC statute sends the job to the Model Registered Agents Act. The $150 franchise-tax paper is due May 1: Arkansas scorecard. Connecticut’s office is the Secretary of the State. Live form BUS-09 bans a P.O. Box on the business and residence street. The separate mailing line may be a P.O. Box: Connecticut scorecard. Utah’s office is the Division of Corporations and Commercial Code. A P.O. Box is only allowed on the mailing line. The $18 annual report is due in the anniversary month: Utah scorecard. Mississippi’s office is the Secretary of State. The LLC statute sends the job to the Mississippi Registered Agents Act. The domestic LLC annual report is $0 and due April 15: Mississippi scorecard. Oklahoma’s LLC statute lets the company name itself as the agent. The $25 anniversary certificate is not that job: Oklahoma scorecard. Louisiana names the agent on a notarized Initial Report. The $30 anniversary annual report is still not that job: Louisiana scorecard. Iowa’s live statute names a registered agent with a place of business in this state. Changing the LLC agent on the live table is no fee. The $30 odd-year biennial report is still not that job: Iowa scorecard. Kentucky wants a registered office and a registered agent at the same street. Unless the agent signs the appointment, it waits on a written acceptance. The $15 June 30 annual report is still not that job: Kentucky scorecard. Nebraska’s LLC statute names an office and an agent for service of process. Changing the LLC agent on the live table is $25 online or $30 on paper. The $30 odd-year biennial report is still not that job: Nebraska scorecard. Kansas’s statute names a resident agent. Changing the agent is Form ROA at $30 online or $35 on paper. The $90 even-or-odd Information Report is still not that job: Kansas scorecard. Idaho’s anniversary-month annual report can change the registered agent if the agent line differs. The statute prices that report at no fee. The live change form’s paper surcharge is $20. The $100 commercial listing is still not that job: Idaho scorecard. New Mexico LLCs file no Secretary of State annual report. Staying without a registered agent for 30 days is how the state can revoke the company. The statute prices the LLC statement of change at $20: New Mexico scorecard. North Dakota will not let the company be its own registered agent. A statement of change is $10. A business LLC report, a farm report, and a corporation report are not the same day: North Dakota scorecard. New Hampshire bans a commercial mailbox, a virtual office, or a mail-forwarding service as the registered office. Form 10 is $15. Resignation ends after 31 days. Staying without an agent or office for 60 days is how the Secretary of State may dissolve the company. The April 1 $100 annual report is not that job: New Hampshire scorecard. Montana’s fee page prices a statement of change at no fee. The April 15 report is waived until it is late, and the LLC and corporation clocks are not the same: Montana scorecard. West Virginia’s LLC statute says the company may name an agent for service of process. If none is named, or the agent cannot be found, the Secretary of State is the agent. Form AAO is $15. The annual report is $25: West Virginia scorecard.