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Not legal advice. Confirm the live registered-agent name and street on the Utah Business Registration search before you file or treat a published street as current. That search is Utah’s public lookup. The office that keeps it is the Division of Corporations and Commercial Code at the Department of Commerce. The live door sits at businessregistration.utah.gov. The older secure.utah.gov/bes URL now opens that same system. The searches landing page is on commerce.utah.gov.

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Utah registered agent: rules, prices, and graded services

Utah’s anniversary-month renewal can rewrite the agent line: 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. Utah’s LLC statute uses the words registered agent. It then sends the job to the Model Registered Agents Act. That chapter uses two names: a commercial registered agent, and a noncommercial registered agent. A commercial agent lists with the Division of Corporations and Commercial Code. The live listing form is the Commercial Registered Agent Application and costs $52. The office that keeps the list is the Division of Corporations and Commercial Code, in the Department of Commerce. That is the official title. Utah does not keep this list at a Secretary of State. Do not treat a vendor page that says “Secretary of State” as a rename. A filing that must state an address must state an actual street or a rural-route box in this state. A mailing line may be different. The Division’s live renewal guide says a P.O. Box is only allowed in the mailing address. Utah’s privacy-friendly formation reputation does not let you skip the agent. The agent street is still the public face on the Division record. Every year the LLC also files an annual report, also called a renewal, in the anniversary month. The live fee table prices that paper at $18, and that star includes a $5 portal surcharge. If that report’s agent name or address differs from the Division record, Utah Code § 48-3a-212 treats the difference as a statement of change under Utah Code § 16-17-206. Putting a new name on an $18 paper is still not the registered-agent job. This page is the Utah rule and the dated prices. It does not reprint vendor cards from another state.

Updated September 17, 2026 · Methodology · Prices retrieved September 17, 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. Utah wants an actual street or a rural-route box. The Division’s live renewal guide says a P.O. Box is only allowed in the mailing address. If you need scans of catalogs, that is a different product on a different site.

What Utah actually requires

A registered agent is the person or company who can be handed a lawsuit. Service of process means handing over those papers. Utah Code § 48-3a-111 says each limited liability company shall keep a registered agent in this state. The opened text is marked repealed as of October 1, 2026. Utah Code § 16-17-203 names a commercial agent, a noncommercial agent, or an office title. The filing affirms consent. The commercial list is at the Division of Corporations and Commercial Code, not a Secretary of State.

A street is a place a person can walk up to. A P.O. Box is a mailbox at the post office. Utah Code § 16-17-202 requires a street or a rural route box in this state, and a mailing line if it differs. The renewal guide wants a Utah street. A P.O. Box is allowed only on the mailing line. The sources disagree. This page does not pick one.

Utah Code § 16-17-206 affirms consent and takes effect on filing. The live table prices a change at $17. Other pages print $13. The sources disagree. This page does not pick one. Utah Code § 48-3a-212 is the annual report, also called a renewal, due in the anniversary month. A different agent line on it is a statement of change. The live schedule prices it at $18, including a $5 surcharge. Other sources print other dollars. The sources disagree. This page does not pick one. Filing it is not taking the lawsuit.

Utah Code § 48-3a-708 starts administrative dissolution after 60 days with no agent, or 60 days after a missed report. The company then has 60 days to cure. Utah Code § 16-17-301 says the agent receives the papers. If service fails, mail may go to the governors at the principal office.

Related guide: Can I be my own registered agent? A person with a Utah street, or a rural-route box, may serve if that person consents.

Related guide: What is a registered agent for an LLC? The job is taking a lawsuit at a Utah street. The anniversary renewal is a different paper.

Related guide: How much does a registered agent cost? The listing is $52. The change dollars do not match. The sources disagree. This page does not pick one.

Related guide: How to change a registered agent on an LLC File a statement of change that affirms consent. The live table prints $17, and other pages print $13.

Related guide: What is a commercial registered agent? That person files a $52 Division listing and names a Utah place of business. It is not a ten-company count.

Related guide: Service of process: what it means for an LLC Service of process means handing over the papers. If the agent cannot be served, mail may go to the governors.

Related guide: What is a registered agent address? The filing wants a Utah street or a rural-route box. A P.O. Box belongs on the mailing line only.

Related guide: Best registered agent service A commercial agent is whoever filed the Division listing. The street stays on the public record.

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. Division hours, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. weekdays, are not a registered-office clock. Someone has to be at a Utah street to accept hand-delivered papers. A software login is not that street.

Cited prices, retrieved September 17, 2026

We print what the company’s official registered-agent page said on the retrieval date. No company publishes a different Utah registered-agent price from the national card, except where we note a Utah-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 + UT 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 Division filing unless you put the new line on the anniversary-month annual report and that report’s agent line differs from the record. We cite Utah Code § 16-17-206, the $17 change row on the live table, the $13 vendor sentences, and the $18 LLC annual report. The yearly paper can list the agent. It is still not the registered-agent job.

Who publishes a Utah 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 Utah Business Registration search before you file. Headquarters is not the registered office. The Division’s Salt Lake City 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 West Jordan on the product page and West Jordan, UT 84084 Salt Lake City County on the office list, and no street on either. LegalZoom publishes no Utah city. Bizee publishes no Utah street. ZenBusiness publishes the Division’s Wells Building suite. We label every published city vendor-claimed. Use the Business Registration search. Utah’s privacy-friendly reputation is not a skip-the-agent rule. The agent street is still public.

In-state office, the commercial listing, and the anniversary-month paper

Utah wants a registered agent designated under the Model Registered Agents Act. A filing that must state an address must state an actual street or a rural-route box. A P.O. Box is not that street. The Division’s live guide allows a P.O. Box only on the mailing line. A commercial registered agent lists on the Commercial Registered Agent Application. The live table and the live form print $52. Change the agent on a $17 statement of change on the live table, or put the new line on the anniversary-month annual report if that report’s agent line differs from the record. Vendor pages still print $13 for that change. The LLC annual report is $18 on the live table, due in the anniversary month. Resignation ends on the earlier of the 31st day or a successor. Stay without an agent for 60 days, or miss the report by 60 days, and the Division may start an administrative dissolution after notice. Utah 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 Utah bar. Northwest claims West Jordan, ZIP 84084, Salt Lake City County. LegalZoom names no Utah city. ZenBusiness publishes SM Box 146701 and 160 East 300 South, the Division. Bizee names no Utah street. Process Score has not been to those offices. We do not treat a company 9-to-5 line as Utah Code § 48-3a-111.

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 Utah owners keep a home off the agent line. The Division 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 Utah LLC must name an agent. It cannot leave that line blank. Utah’s privacy-friendly formation reputation does not erase that street. Confirm the live line on the Business Registration 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 Utah-only price.
SOS street and presence
B
Product page and office-locations list both name West Jordan, UT 84084, Salt Lake City County. No street. Confirm the Business Registration 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: 2026-09-17

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 Utah-only price.
SOS street and presence
B-
No Utah registered-agent street on the product pages. Houston HQ is not a Utah registered-agent street. Confirm the Business Registration 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: 2026-09-17

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 Utah article publishes no LegalZoom street. 160 East 300 South is the Division. Confirm the Business Registration 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: 2026-09-17

LegalZoom

ZenBusiness

Commercial registered agent
Year-1 / year-2 price
C
Year 1 $99 + UT 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-
Utah product page publishes no ZenBusiness street or city. The Wells Building is a Division contact. Confirm the Business Registration 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 Utah statute.

Year 1: $99 + UT 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: 2026-09-17

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.

Sources for this page

  1. Utah Code § 48-3a-111 (retrieved September 17, 2026), designate and maintain a registered agent in accordance with § 16-17-203(1); change the agent under § 16-17-206; live code marked Repealed 10/1/2026 by Chapter 93, 2026 General Session
  2. Utah Code § 16-17-202, Utah Code § 16-17-203, Utah Code § 16-17-204, Utah Code § 16-17-206, Utah Code § 16-17-209, Utah Code § 16-17-301, and Utah Code § 16-17-302 (retrieved September 17, 2026), actual street or rural-route box plus a mailing line if different; appointment is a consent affirmation; commercial listing; statement of change on filing; resignation on the earlier of the 31st day or a successor; service on the agent; forward-and-notice duties
  3. Utah Code § 48-3a-201, Utah Code § 48-3a-212, and Utah Code § 48-3a-708 (retrieved September 17, 2026), certificate names the § 16-17-203(1) agent line; annual report in the anniversary month; a differing agent name or address is a statement of change under § 16-17-206; administrative dissolution after 60 days without an agent or a missed report
  4. Division fee schedule, the Commercial Registered Agent Application, the Renewal with Changes guide, the Annual Report / Renewal Form, and the Annual Report/Renewal Guide (retrieved September 17, 2026), LLC certificate $59; LLC annual report $18 including a $5 portal surcharge; late renewal $10 on the live table and $18 on the older form; change $17; commercial listing $52; P.O. Box only on the mailing line; P.O. Box 146705 and 160 East 300 South
  5. Utah Business Registration search, the searches landing page, the Division home, and the older secure.utah.gov/bes door (retrieved September 17, 2026), official public lookup at businessregistration.utah.gov; BES now opens that same system; hours 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; 160 East 300 South; P.O. Box 146705
  6. Northwest Registered Agent, official registered-agent page, Utah product page, and office locations (retrieved September 17, 2026), $125/year; first year free only with formation; $100/year per state at five or more states; product page names a West Jordan office, extra mail scans, and a $20 renewal; office-locations list West Jordan, UT 84084 Salt Lake City County, and no street
  7. Bizee, official registered-agent page, Utah product page, and contact (retrieved September 17, 2026), free year 1 with formation on the official card; standalone $149/year; year 2 $149/year; Utah page names a $54 online / $59 paper formation and an anniversary-date annual report; no Utah registered-agent street; /llc/utah-registered-agent returned 404; Houston contact HQ is not a Utah registered-agent street
  8. LegalZoom, official registered-agent overview and Utah registered-agent article (retrieved September 17, 2026; article updated May 15, 2026), $249/year; Utah article publishes no LegalZoom street; it prints $59 formation, a $13 change, an $18 renewal, and a $50 late fee; FAQ says a P.O. box does not qualify as the street; /articles/registered-agent-in-utah returned 404 the same day
  9. ZenBusiness, official registered-agent page and Utah registered agent (retrieved September 17, 2026; Utah page last updated August 27, 2025), $99 + state fees year 1; $199 renewal, subject to change; Utah product page publishes no ZenBusiness street; it prints SM Box 146701, 160 East 300 South, and telephone (801) 530-4849, Division contacts; it also prints a $13 change and a 31-day resignation; /utah-resident-agent/ returned 404; national product currently excludes PLLCs and nonprofits

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