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Not legal advice. Confirm the live registered-agent name and street on the Mississippi Business Search before you file or treat a published street as current. That search is Mississippi’s public lookup. The office that keeps it is the Mississippi Secretary of State. Confirm on Mississippi SOS before you treat a vendor page as current. The live door sits at corp.sos.ms.gov.

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Mississippi registered agent: rules, prices, and graded services

Mississippi’s free April 15 LLC report still lists the agent: that paper is still not the registered-agent job

A registered agent is the person or company who can be handed a lawsuit for the business. It is not a mailbox. A registered agent is also called a statutory agent, or an agent for service of process. Handing over those court papers is called service of process. Mississippi’s live LLC statute uses the words registered agent. It then sends the job to the Mississippi Registered Agents Act. That chapter uses two names: a commercial registered agent, and a noncommercial registered agent. A commercial agent lists with the Secretary of State. The live listing form is the Commercial Registered Agent Listing Statement and costs $100. The office that keeps the list is the Secretary of State. That is the official title. The old LLC registered-office section, Miss. Code § 79-29-113, was repealed effective January 1, 2013. Do not treat a vendor page that still cites that section as the live rule. A filing that must state an address must state an actual street in this state. A mailing line may be different. The Secretary of State’s live registered-agent page says the agent must have a physical address in Mississippi. A P.O. Box is not that street. Every year the LLC also files an annual report. The Secretary of State FAQ, retrieved September 18, 2026, says corporation and LLC reports are due April 15. The live fee table and Miss. Code § 79-29-1203 price the domestic LLC report at no fee. The foreign LLC report is $250. Bizee’s Mississippi page still says no annual report is required. We print both. The sources disagree. This page does not pick one. Putting a name on a $0 paper is still not the registered-agent job. This page is the Mississippi rule and the dated prices. It does not reprint vendor cards from another state.

Updated September 18, 2026 · Methodology · Prices retrieved September 18, 2026 from official pages

A registered agent is not a virtual mailbox. We do not score mailbox suites, virtual offices, or Google Business Profile eligibility here. Mississippi wants an actual street. The Secretary of State’s live page says a physical Mississippi address. A P.O. Box is not that street. If you need scans of catalogs, that is a different product on a different site.

What Mississippi actually requires

A registered agent is the person or company who can be handed a lawsuit. Service of process means handing over those papers. Miss. Code § 79-29-201 is how a Mississippi limited liability company names that agent. An individual, a corporation, or a limited liability company may serve with a physical address in Mississippi. A commercial agent lists with the Secretary of State. A noncommercial agent must consent first. A listed agent who files no Statement of Non-acceptance within 14 days has acquiesced.

A street is a place a person can walk up to. A P.O. Box is a mailbox at the post office. Miss. Code § 79-35-4 requires an actual street in this state, and a mailing line only if it differs. A P.O. Box is not the street. Miss. Code § 79-29-113 was repealed effective January 1, 2013. One source still cites it as the live rule. The sources disagree. This page does not pick one.

The live table prices a change at $10. The FAQ calls that change an amendment. Another source prints $50 when more than the agent changes. The sources disagree. This page does not pick one. Miss. Code § 79-29-215 asks for the agent’s street. The FAQ says April 15, with no fee for a domestic company and $250 for a foreign company. Other pages deny the report or deny that it changes the agent. The sources disagree. This page does not pick one. Filing it is not taking the lawsuit.

Miss. Code § 79-29-821 starts administrative dissolution after 60 days with no agent, a late report, or a late notice of a change or resignation. The company then has 60 days to cure. Miss. Code § 79-35-13 says the agent receives the papers. The commercial listing is $100 for one place of business. It is not a ten-company count.

Related guide: Can I be my own registered agent? A person with a physical Mississippi street may serve if that person consents.

Related guide: What is a registered agent for an LLC? The job is taking a lawsuit at a Mississippi street and forwarding the papers.

Related guide: How much does a registered agent cost? The commercial listing is $100. The change fee is separate, and the sources disagree. This page does not pick one.

Related guide: How to change a registered agent on an LLC The live table prints $10. The FAQ says the change is an amendment. The sources disagree. This page does not pick one.

Related guide: What is a commercial registered agent? That agent files a $100 listing and names one Mississippi place of business.

Related guide: Service of process: what it means for an LLC Service of process means handing over the papers. Sixty days with no agent can start dissolution.

Related guide: What is a registered agent address? The filing wants an actual Mississippi street. A P.O. Box may sit only on the mailing line.

Related guide: Best registered agent service A listed commercial agent is on the Secretary of State list. A noncommercial agent needs permission.

Related guide: What is a certificate of good standing? The certificate is a different paper from the agent filing. This section does not print a certificate price.

The statute does not print a clock. Someone has to be at a Mississippi street to accept hand-delivered papers. A software login is not that street.

Cited prices, retrieved September 18, 2026

We print what the company’s official registered-agent page said on the retrieval date. No company publishes a different Mississippi registered-agent price from the national card, except where we note a Mississippi-page sentence. The page does not publish a separate renewal price.

Vendor Year 1 Year 2 Letters Link
Northwest Registered Agent $125/year standalone; first year free only if you form the entity through Northwest $125/year (same price; $100/year per state if you have five or more states) B+ / B / B Official page
Bizee Free first year when you form through Bizee; standalone registered agent $149/year Official pages we retrieved say $149/year after the free first year (or $149 from day one if you buy standalone) C+ / B- / B Official page
LegalZoom $249/year on the official registered-agent overview (first-time customers) Official footnote: auto-renews at the purchase rate until you cancel; “The renewal rate is subject to change.” C / B- / B- LegalZoom
ZenBusiness $99 + MS state fees for the first year (standalone); national card says $99 + state fees $199/year renewal on the official national pages; those pages say the rate is subject to change C / B- / B- ZenBusiness

A change of registered agent is a separate Secretary of State filing unless you treat the $0 April 15 annual report as a change path. Live pages disagree about that path. We cite the $10 change row on the live table, the $50 amendment row, LegalZoom’s $10 / $50 pair, ZenBusiness’s amendment-only sentence, and the $0 domestic LLC annual report. The yearly paper can list the agent. It is still not the registered-agent job.

Who publishes a Mississippi street

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

If you are your own registered 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. Northwest names Jackson on the product page and Jackson, MS 39202 Hinds County on the office list, and no street on either. LegalZoom publishes no Mississippi city. Bizee publishes no Mississippi street. ZenBusiness publishes the Secretary of State’s Jackson and Biloxi suites. We label every published city vendor-claimed. Use the Business Search.

In-state office, the $100 commercial listing, and the $0 April 15 paper

Mississippi wants a registered agent designated under the Mississippi Registered Agents Act. A filing that must state an address must state an actual street. A P.O. Box is not that street. A mailing line may be different. A commercial registered agent lists on the Commercial Registered Agent Listing Statement. The live form and the live office page print $100. A listed commercial agent who does not want a company that selected it files a Statement of Non-acceptance within 14 days. Change the agent as an amendment. The live table prices that change at $10. The amendment row is $50 if other lines move. Resignation on the live table is no fee. The domestic LLC annual report is $0 on the live table, due April 15 on the live FAQ. Bizee’s Mississippi page still says no annual report. Stay without an agent for 60 days, or miss the report by 60 days, and the Secretary of State may start an administrative dissolution after notice. Mississippi does not post a Florida-style 10–noon / 2–4 clock, and it does not run a Nevada-style ten-company commercial-agent register. The commercial listing is the Mississippi bar. Northwest claims Jackson, ZIP 39202, Hinds County. LegalZoom names no Mississippi city. ZenBusiness publishes 401 Mississippi Street and 125 S. Congress Street, Secretary of State contacts. Bizee names no Mississippi street. Process Score has not been to those offices. We do not treat a company 9-to-5 line as Miss. Code § 79-35-5.

Service of process, not marketing mail

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

Home-address privacy

A commercial registered agent is how most Mississippi owners keep a home off the agent line. The Secretary of State still publishes whatever other addresses you put on a formation filing or an annual report. Privacy of the agent line is not privacy of every field. A Mississippi LLC must name an agent. It cannot leave that line blank. Confirm the live line on the Business Search.

Not legal advice. Confirm on Mississippi SOS before you treat these grades as current. Check the live name and street on the Mississippi Business Search.

Scorecards

Northwest Registered Agent

Commercial registered agent
Year-1 / year-2 price
B+
National $125/year, same in year 2. Five-or-more-states is $100/year per state. No Mississippi-only price.
SOS street and presence
B
Product page and office-locations list both name Jackson, MS 39202, Hinds County. No street. Confirm the Business Search. The page does not publish one.
Process and privacy
B
In-office scan of documents they receive. Grade the court-paper path, not the extra mail-scan add-on.

Year 1: $125/year standalone; first year free only if you form the entity through Northwest

Year 2: $125/year (same price; $100/year per state if you have five or more states)

Retrieved: 2026-09-18

Official page

Bizee

Commercial registered agent
Year-1 / year-2 price
C+
Year 1 can be $0 with formation on the official card. Year 2 is $149. No Mississippi-only price.
SOS street and presence
B-
No Mississippi registered-agent street on the product pages. Houston HQ is not a Mississippi registered-agent street. Confirm the Business Search.
Process and privacy
B
Published court-paper path: notify, scan to portal, FedEx the papers. Not a mailbox.

Year 1: Free first year when you form through Bizee; standalone registered agent $149/year

Year 2: Official pages we retrieved say $149/year after the free first year (or $149 from day one if you buy standalone)

Retrieved: 2026-09-18

Official page

LegalZoom

Commercial registered agent
Year-1 / year-2 price
C
Official $249/year. The page does not publish $299.
SOS street and presence
B-
Live Mississippi article publishes no LegalZoom street. 660 North Street is the Secretary of State. Confirm the Business Search.
Process and privacy
B-
Published court-paper scan, email, and postcard. Junk mail is filtered. That is not the product we grade.

Year 1: $249/year on the official registered-agent overview (first-time customers)

Year 2: Official footnote: auto-renews at the purchase rate until you cancel; “The renewal rate is subject to change.”

Retrieved: 2026-09-18

LegalZoom

ZenBusiness

Commercial registered agent
Year-1 / year-2 price
C
Year 1 $99 + MS state fees is a first-year deal. Year 2 is $199, subject to change on the national card. Read the renewal line.
SOS street and presence
B-
Mississippi product page publishes no ZenBusiness street or city. 401 Mississippi Street and 125 S. Congress Street are Secretary of State contacts. Confirm the Business Search. The page does not publish a suite.
Process and privacy
B-
Scan, dashboard, email; overnight for urgent legal notices. Not a mailbox. Their national product currently excludes PLLCs and nonprofits. That is ZenBusiness’s exclusion, not a Mississippi statute.

Year 1: $99 + MS state fees for the first year (standalone); national card says $99 + state fees

Year 2: $199/year renewal on the official national pages; those pages say the rate is subject to change

Retrieved: 2026-09-18

ZenBusiness

What this page does not do

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. Oklahoma’s LLC statute lets the company name itself as the agent. The $25 anniversary certificate is not that job: Oklahoma scorecard.

Sources for this page

  1. Miss. Code § 79-29-201 and Miss. Code § 79-35-5 (retrieved September 18, 2026), certificate names the § 79-35-5(a) agent line; appointment is an affirmation that the agent was notified, given a forwarding address, and consented; daily list kept 14 days
  2. Miss. Code § 79-35-4, Miss. Code § 79-35-6, Miss. Code § 79-35-8, Miss. Code § 79-35-11, Miss. Code § 79-35-13, and Miss. Code § 79-35-14 (retrieved September 18, 2026), actual street plus a mailing line if different; commercial listing; change; resignation; service on the agent; forwarding address
  3. Miss. Code § 79-29-215, Miss. Code § 79-29-1203, Miss. Code § 79-29-821, and Miss. Code § 79-29-823 (retrieved September 18, 2026), annual report lists the agent’s name, email, and street or physical address; domestic LLC report no fee; foreign LLC report $250; formation $50; administrative dissolution after 60 days without an agent or a missed report, then 60 days after notice
  4. Miss. Code § 79-29-113 (retrieved September 18, 2026), marked repealed effective January 1, 2013; not the live LLC agent statute
  5. Fee schedule, the Services & Fees table, the Commercial Registered Agent Listing Statement, the registered-agent page, and the Business FAQs (retrieved September 18, 2026), LLC certificate $50; domestic LLC annual report $0 / no fee; foreign LLC annual report $250; change $10; resignation no fee; commercial listing $100; commercial termination $50; 14-day non-acceptance; April 15 corporation and LLC reports; physical Mississippi address; P.O. Box 136 and 660 North Street
  6. Mississippi Business Search, Mississippi Business Reports, and the Business Services page (retrieved September 18, 2026), official public lookup at corp.sos.ms.gov; 660 North Street; P.O. Box 136; phone 601-359-1633
  7. Northwest Registered Agent, official registered-agent page, Mississippi product page, and office locations (retrieved September 18, 2026), $125/year; first year free only with formation; $100/year per state at five or more states; product page names a Jackson office and extra mail scans; office-locations list Jackson, MS 39202 Hinds County, and no street
  8. Bizee, official registered-agent page, Mississippi product page, and contact (retrieved September 18, 2026), free year 1 with formation on the official card; standalone $149/year; year 2 $149/year; Mississippi page names a $50 Certificate of Formation and says no annual report is required; no Mississippi registered-agent street; /llc/mississippi-registered-agent returned 404; Houston contact HQ is not a Mississippi registered-agent street
  9. LegalZoom, official registered-agent overview and Mississippi registered-agent article (retrieved September 18, 2026; article updated May 15, 2026), $249/year; Mississippi article publishes no LegalZoom street; it prints $50 formation and a $10 / $50 change; it still cites § 79-29-113; /articles/registered-agent-in-mississippi returned 404 the same day
  10. ZenBusiness, official registered-agent page and Mississippi registered agent (retrieved September 18, 2026; Mississippi page last updated August 27, 2025), $99 + state fees year 1; $199 renewal, subject to change; Mississippi product page publishes no ZenBusiness street; it prints 401 Mississippi Street, 125 S. Congress Street, and 1141 Bayview Avenue, Secretary of State contacts; it also prints an amendment-only change path and a 31-day resignation; /mississippi-resident-agent/ returned 404; national product currently excludes PLLCs and nonprofits

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