Registered Agent Requirements in Arizona (Statutory Agent, Officially)

Arizona's statutes never use the phrase "registered agent." The state's term is "statutory agent," and A.R.S. § 29-3115 even carries that title. Different label, identical job: the person or company that accepts lawsuits and state mail for your business. Here are the requirements, straight from the statute.

The Statute: A.R.S. § 29-3115

Read it at https://www.azleg.gov/ars/29/03115.htm. It sets out who may hold the role:

• An individual living in Arizona
• A domestic corporation or domestic LLC
• A foreign corporation or foreign LLC authorized to transact business in Arizona

And one condition people miss: no appointment is effective until the agent accepts it. The acceptance happens on Form M002, signed and delivered to the Corporation Commission.

Download: Form M002, Statutory Agent Acceptance (PDF).

The Address Rule: Street Address, No PO Boxes

The agent needs a place of business or a residence inside Arizona. ACC forms demand a physical street address for the agent; a PO box alone will not fly, though the forms permit a separate Arizona mailing address that can be one.

Business Hours, Every Business Day

Whoever holds the role must actually be reachable at that street address during all regular business hours. Process servers do not make appointments.

What Lands at the Agent's Address

• Lawsuits: the summons for any case against your entity is served here first
• ACC mail: compliance notices, filing confirmations, administrative updates
• Regulatory correspondence: licensing and agency communications
• Anything else a court or the state formally delivers to your company

When something arrives at our office, it is scanned and in your inbox the same day. Legal response clocks start at service, so that speed is the whole game.

Picking Your Agent: The Practical Question

The statute gives you options, and the practical trade-offs decide it. Name an individual, and their address becomes a public record at the ACC, searchable by anyone, and they had better be at that address every working day of the year. Name a professional service and you get a commercial address on the record, guaranteed business-hours coverage, and same-day document delivery. That is the entire pitch, and at $99/year it is not an expensive decision.

$99/Year, Everything Included

• Arizona street address that satisfies every ACC requirement
• Same-day scanning and email delivery
• Online vault with 24/7 access to every document
• Alerts whenever the state sends something
• Your home address kept off the public record

Physical mail-out of an original is the only per-piece charge, and only when you request it.

Who Must Have One

Every active entity in the ACC's system: domestic LLCs and corporations, foreign-qualified companies, nonprofits, and professional entities. Active entity, active agent. No exceptions.

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