Oregon’s street cannot be a commercial mailbox, a mail-forwarding shop, or a virtual office — and the $100 anniversary renewal is not that job

What Oregon actually requires

ORS 63.111 is the Oregon office-and-agent statute. A limited liability company shall continuously maintain in this state a registered agent and registered office that may be, but need not be, the same as any of the limited liability company’s places of business. The registered office must be located at a physical street address where process may be personally served on the registered agent. The registered office may not be a commercial mail receiving agency, a mail forwarding business or a virtual office. That is the street rule. We print it. We do not invent a shorter one. The official chapter sits on the Oregon Legislative Counsel site.

The same section is who may serve. A registered agent must be an individual who resides in this state and whose business office is identical to the registered office; a domestic limited liability company, domestic corporation, domestic professional corporation, or domestic nonprofit corporation whose business office is identical to the registered office; or a foreign limited liability company, foreign corporation, foreign professional corporation, or foreign nonprofit corporation that is authorized to transact business in this state whose business office is identical to the registered office. The Corporation Division registered-agent page adds a second sentence: an entity cannot designate itself as its own registered agent, but an individual owner can be the registered agent for their business. We print the statute and the office page. We do not invent a third rule that makes them disagree.

ORS 56.035 is how the Secretary of State checks the street. Before filing a document, the Secretary of State shall verify that the address of a registered agent listed in that document is a physical street address and is not a mail forwarding service, virtual office, or commercial mail receiving agency. The same section lets the Secretary of State check a principal office the same way, with one exception: a commercial mail receiving agency may be a principal office if the company’s principal executive offices sit at that same street. That exception is for the principal office. It is not a way around the registered-office ban. The Secretary of State’s business-structure page repeats the same idea in office copy: the registered office must have an actual street address. The registered-agent page asks, “Can a registered agent use a post office box or mail forwarding business for the registered address?” The answer is no. Because legal process must be physically served on a person, a process server cannot physically serve the registered agent at a P.O. Box or a mail forwarding business. We print those office sentences. We do not treat a Portland mailbox shop as ORS 63.111.

ORS 63.047 is what the articles must say. Articles of organization must state the address, including street and number, and mailing address, if different, of the limited liability company’s initial registered office and the name of the initial registered agent at the office. They must also state the initial physical street address of the principal office. Leaving the agent off is a defect. ORS 56.140 prices those articles at $100. The same section prices a domestic annual report at $100, and any other related document the entity may or must file at $100. The live Business Registry Fee Schedule lists domestic Limited Liability Company articles and the annual renewal at $100.00. It lists Change of Registered Agent/Address (Corp/LLC) at $0.00. It lists Change of Business / Mailing Address at $0.00. The paper Information Change form prints No Processing Fee. The Secretary of State may waive a fee under the same fee statute. Bizee’s Oregon page, retrieved the same day, prints $100 online and $50 paper for Articles of Organization. That $50 paper row is Bizee copy. We print the statute, the table, and the vendor sentence. We do not invent a fourth number that makes them agree.

ORS 60.111 is the corporation pair. A corporation shall continuously maintain in this state a registered agent and registered office. The registered office must be a physical street where process may be personally served. The registered office may not be a commercial mail receiving agency, a mail forwarding business or a virtual office. The agent’s business office must be identical to that office. We print both. We do not treat the corporation cite as the LLC rule.

ORS 63.114 is how the company changes the line. The company delivers a statement of change that names the company, the new street if the office is changing, the new agent if the agent is changing and that the new agent has consented to the appointment, and a statement that after the change the street of the registered office and the business office of the registered agent will be identical. The filing terminates the old office or agent on the effective date and puts the new one on the record. If the agent moves, the agent notifies the company in writing and files that same statement. The live office path is the Information Change, online or on the paper form. The Corporation Division says you may also report changes on the annual report when the renewal is open. ZenBusiness’s Oregon page, last updated August 26, 2025, says the same thing: file the Information Change at no fee, or put the new line on the $100 annual report if that report is due. Changing a name on a $100 paper is still not the registered-agent job. The job is taking court papers at the Oregon street.

ORS 63.117 is how an agent steps down. The agent files a signed statement and gives a copy to the company at its mailing address or principal office on the Secretary of State record. The appointment ends on the 31st day after the Secretary of State files the statement, unless the company sooner names a successor. That is a 31-day clock. It is not Wisconsin’s 60-day clock. It is not Minnesota’s 30-day clock. The Corporation Division registered-agent page says the resignation date is the day the Division receives the letter, and that by law the agent must stay available to accept service of process for 30 days after the Division is notified. We print the statute and the office page. We do not invent a winner between the 31st day and those 30 days. Failure to name a new agent, the office page says, will result in administrative dissolution.

ORS 63.787 is the yearly Secretary of State paper this page will not confuse with the agent job. A domestic LLC, and a foreign LLC authorized here, shall by the company’s anniversary deliver an annual report that states the name, the street of the registered office and the name of the registered agent at that office, the principal office, the managers or at least one member, and the primary business activity. The information must be current as of 30 days before the anniversary. ORS 63.001 is the dictionary. Anniversary means the day each year that is exactly one or more years after the Secretary of State filed the articles, or after the Secretary of State filed a foreign company’s application for authority. That is a calendar day. It is not “the anniversary month.” Bizee’s Oregon page says the annual report is due annually by the LLC’s anniversary month. That is Bizee copy. We print the statute. Missing the mailed form does not excuse the filing. If the report is incomplete, the company has 45 days after notice to correct it. The company may also file an amendment to the annual report after it is on file and before the next anniversary. The Corporation Division update page says that when the renewal is open, you may report changes on that annual report and pay the renewal fee. Listing a name on a $100 yearly paper is still not the registered-agent job.

ORS 56.140 prices a domestic LLC annual report at $100 and a foreign company’s authority filing and annual report at $275. The live fee table lists the same $100 domestic and $275 foreign renewal rows. We print the statute and the table. Those two numbers match. The $100 report can list a new agent when the renewal is open. It is still not the registered-agent job.

ORS 63.647 is what happens if the report, or the agent, is missing. The Secretary of State may start an administrative dissolution if the company does not pay fees when due, does not deliver the annual report when due, is without a registered agent or registered office in this state, or does not notify the Secretary of State that the agent or office changed or that the agent resigned. ORS 63.651 is the clock. The Secretary of State gives written notice. If the company does not correct each ground, or show it does not exist, within 45 days after that notice, the Secretary of State shall dissolve the company. The administrative dissolution does not terminate the authority of the registered agent. ORS 63.654 is the way back: apply within five years, show the ground did not exist or has been eliminated, and keep a name that still fits the statute. The Secretary of State may waive that five-year window if the company asks and shows it stayed an active concern. We do not invent a reinstatement dollar the fee table did not print as a standalone row we opened.

ORS 63.121 is how papers are handed over. The registered agent is the company’s agent for any process, notice, or demand. If the company has no agent, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the registered office, the Secretary of State is an agent. Service on the Secretary of State is in person or by certified or registered mail, plus the required fee, and a copy mailed to the last registered office. After that first service, later papers in the same case need not go back through the Secretary of State. The Corporation Division service page prices that Secretary of State path at $20.00 for each business or party being served. The fee statute prints the same $20. Those dollars are for serving the Secretary of State. They are not the registered-agent job, and they are not the change-of-agent fee.

The Business Name Search sits on sos.oregon.gov/business. The Corporation Division’s Find a Business page returned a live lookup form on retrieval. Paper filings and walk-ins go to the Public Service Building, 255 Capitol Street NE, Suite 151, Salem, OR 97310-1327. The front desk is open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The contact center is open Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Friday 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. The phone is 503-986-2200. Those hours are the Corporation Division’s hours. They are not a registered-office clock. Oregon does not post Florida-style 10–noon / 2–4 windows. We do not treat a company 9-to-5 line as ORS 63.111. Oregon does not run a Nevada-style ten-company commercial-agent register. A commercial registered agent here is just a company whose Oregon office matches the registered office and that consented to serve.

Confirm the live agent and street on the Oregon Business Name Search before you treat a marketing city as current. Headquarters is not the registered office. The Corporation Division desk in Salem is not a vendor suite. That search lists the registered agent and the registered office of record.

Cited prices, retrieved September 14, 2026

We print what the company’s official registered-agent page said on the retrieval date. No company publishes a different Oregon registered-agent price from the national card, except where we note an Oregon-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 14, 2026 from northwestregisteredagent.com/registered-agent and the Oregon product page. First year free only if you form through them; we do not treat that bundle as the standalone price. The Oregon page says they accept and scan documents on-site at their registered office in Portland, OR. The same company also sells an Oregon Virtual Office and Oregon Mail Forwarding extra. Those extras are a different product. ORS 63.111 says a virtual office or a mail forwarding business is not the registered office. We do not grade those extras as the registered-agent job.
• Bizee: official registered-agent page: free first year with formation; standalone $149/year; year two $149/year. Retrieved September 14, 2026 from bizee.com/business-management/registered-agent. A bizee.com/llc/oregon-registered-agent URL returned 404 the same day. The live Oregon page is bizee.com/llc/oregon/registered-agent. That page names a $100 online / $50 paper Articles fee, an annual report due by the LLC’s anniversary month, no state-level LLC franchise tax, and the Oregon Secretary of State, Corporation Division. It also cites ORS 63.111 and says a P.O. Box or commercial mail receiving agency does not satisfy the street. The live fee table we retrieved is $100 for articles. The live statute we retrieved ties the report to the anniversary day, not the anniversary month. We print those vendor sentences. We do not invent an Oregon-only price from a missing hyphenated URL.
• LegalZoom: official overview retrieved September 14, 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. The live Oregon article is legalzoom.com/articles/oregon-registered-agent, updated September 18, 2025. That article says LegalZoom offers professional registered-agent service with an Oregon address at our Portland office. No street is published. A legalzoom.com/articles/registered-agent-in-oregon URL returned 404 the same day. We do not invent a suite or a higher year-two number.
• ZenBusiness: official Oregon page: first-year and renewal dollars are the national card. The national page says $99 + state fees for the first year and renews at $199/yr, subject to change. The Oregon page, last updated August 26, 2025, talks about $100 to a few hundred dollars a year as a market range. That range is not a ZenBusiness price. We keep the national card. A zenbusiness.com/oregon-resident-agent/ URL returned 404 the same day. The live Oregon page is /oregon-registered-agent/. That page correctly cites ORS 63.111 and ORS 60.111 and says the address cannot be a P.O. box, a mail forwarding service, or a virtual office address. It prices the Information Change at no fee and the annual-report change at $100. We print those vendor sentences. The live fee table we retrieved is $0.00 for the change and $100.00 for the domestic renewal. The same national page says they currently do not offer registered-agent service to PLLCs or nonprofits. That is their national exclusion, not an Oregon statute. Retrieved September 14, 2026 from zenbusiness.com/registered-agent and the Oregon registered-agent page.

A change of registered agent or office is a separate Secretary of State filing unless you put the new line on the annual report while the renewal is open. We cite ORS 63.114, the $0 Information Change row, and the $100 domestic report. The $100 report can list the agent. It is still not the registered-agent job.

Who publishes an Oregon 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 Oregon Business Name Search before you file. Headquarters is not the registered office. The Secretary of State’s Salem contacts are not vendor suites.

• Northwest. The Oregon product page says they accept and scan documents on-site at their registered office in Portland, OR. The office-locations page lists Portland, OR 97239, Multnomah County, and says they leave the street off this list. No street is published. The two city lines match. Those city, ZIP, and county lines are vendor-claimed. We have not been to a Portland office. Northwest also sells an Oregon Virtual Office and Oregon Mail Forwarding extra from that Portland location. Those extras are a different product. Oregon’s statute bans a virtual office or a mail forwarding business as the registered office.
• Bizee. Claims owned offices in all 50 states. The official registered-agent page names no Oregon street. The live Oregon product page names no Oregon street. The hyphenated Oregon URL we tried returned 404 on September 14, 2026. The contact page lists 17350 State Highway 249, Suite 220, Houston, TX 77064 as headquarters. That address is not an Oregon registered-agent street.
• LegalZoom. The official registered-agent overview does not publish an Oregon street. The live Oregon article names a Portland office and no street. The second Oregon article URL we tried returned 404 the same day. We do not invent a suite. We do not treat a LegalZoom virtual-mail street as the registered-agent street.
• ZenBusiness. The Oregon registered-agent page publishes no ZenBusiness street or city. It prints a Secretary of State contact at 255 Capitol St. NE, Suite 151, Salem, OR 97310, telephone 503-986-2200, office hours 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday–Friday. That is a published street. It is the Corporation Division, not ZenBusiness. The fee schedule lists the same building. We do not treat that Salem line as their suite.

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 Portland, ZIP 97239, Multnomah County, on both the product page and the office list, and no street on either. LegalZoom names a Portland office and no street. Bizee publishes no Oregon street. ZenBusiness publishes the Secretary of State’s Capitol Street contacts. We label every published city vendor-claimed. Use the Business Name Search.

In-state office, the three-way street ban, and the $100 anniversary renewal

Oregon wants a registered office that is a physical street in this state where process may be personally served. The agent’s business office and that registered office must be the same street. A commercial mail receiving agency, a mail forwarding business, or a virtual office is not that street. A P.O. Box is not that street. The Secretary of State must check the listed agent street. The LLC may not name itself as the agent. Change the agent on the Information Change, $0 on the live table, or put the new line on the annual report when the renewal is open. The domestic report is $100. It is due on the anniversary day. If that report lists a different agent while the renewal is open, the office treats it as an update. Resignation ends on the 31st day, or sooner if a successor is filed. Stay without an agent, or miss the report, and the Secretary of State may start a dissolution after a 45-day notice. Those filings are not the registered-agent job. Oregon does not post a Florida-style 10–noon / 2–4 clock, and it does not run a Nevada-style ten-company commercial-agent register. Northwest claims Portland, ZIP 97239, Multnomah County. LegalZoom names a Portland office. ZenBusiness publishes 255 Capitol Street NE — the Secretary of State. Bizee names no Oregon street. Process Score has not been to those offices. We do not treat a company 9-to-5 line as ORS 63.111.

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 Oregon page talks about a physical street during business hours. That is Bizee copy. 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 Oregon page adds on-site scans at the Portland office. Their Oregon Virtual Office and Mail Forwarding extras are a different product. We do not grade those extras as a mailbox. Oregon’s statute bans those two products as the registered office.
• LegalZoom: upload, email, and a postcard for urgent legal mail; they say they shred junk mail. The live Oregon article names a Portland office. 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 an Oregon statute. The Oregon page prints Secretary of State contacts at 255 Capitol Street NE. That is office copy for the Corporation Division, not ORS 63.111.

Home-address privacy

A commercial registered agent is how most Oregon 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. An Oregon LLC must name an agent. It cannot leave that line blank and it cannot name itself. Confirm the live line on the Business Name 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 ORS 63.111.
• It does not treat the $100 anniversary annual report as the registered-agent job. That report can still list a new agent when the renewal is open.
• It does not treat a Houston headquarters as an Oregon street.
• It does not treat 255 Capitol Street NE, Suite 151, as a vendor suite. Those contacts are the Corporation Division.
• It does not invent an Oregon-only price a company did not print.
• It does not invent a LegalZoom Oregon street the live Portland-office sentence did not print.
• It does not treat a commercial mail receiving agency, a mail forwarding business, or a virtual office as the street.
• It does not invent a ten-company commercial-agent bar. Oregon does not run that register.
• It does not pretend an Oregon LLC may skip the agent. ORS 63.111 says the company shall continuously maintain one. Minnesota’s domestic split is a different statute.
• It does not invent a winner between the $100 formation fee in ORS 56.140 and Bizee’s $50 paper row.
• It does not invent a winner between the $100 “related document” sentence in ORS 56.140 (2) and the $0 Change of Registered Agent row on the fee table.
• It does not invent a winner between the 31st-day resignation clock in ORS 63.117 and the Corporation Division’s 30-day sentence.
• It does not treat Northwest’s Oregon Virtual Office or Mail Forwarding extra as the registered-agent job.

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.