57 of 59 fee datums on this page are verified against the agency's own published schedule or statute (2026-09-04); the rest are marked pending review in the Status column - portal-surcharge components no official page states, values the official source contradicts (held for a correction package), or sources that could not be reached.
Values were first corroborated across independent internal records; verified cells now also carry the agency's own published schedule or statute as their authority, which is what promotion to verified requires.
Cost position
Ranked 26 of 54 on first-year state
filing cost, at $175.00 against a national median
of $185.00.
Recurring annual cost $90.
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Registered-agent statutes, quoted verbatim
The one section on this page that clears the publication gate in full. 10 citations, verified, quoted from the official code with every elision marked.
K.S.A. 17-7925
◎Verified
Business Entity Standard Treatment Act (K.S.A. 17-7901 et seq.) · applies to
corporations and LLCs
Resident agent; requirement to maintain; references in documents.(a) Every covered entity shall have and maintain in this state a resident agent, which agent may be either: (1) The covered entity itself; (2) an individual resident in this state; (3) a domestic corporation, a domestic limited partnership, a domestic limited liability partnership, a domestic limited liability company or a domestic business trust; or (4) a foreign corporation, a foreign limited partnership, a foreign limited liability partnership, a foreign limited liability company or a foreign business trust.
Business Entity Standard Treatment Act (K.S.A. 17-7901 et seq.) · applies to
corporations and LLCs
Registered office; requirements to maintain; references in documents.(a) Every covered entity shall have and maintain in this state a registered office that may, but need not be, the same as its place of business. [...] (c) As contained in any covered entity's organic documents or other document filed with the secretary of state under the business entity standard treatment act, the postal address of a registered office shall include the building and suite number, street name or rural route number with box number, city, state and zip code.
Articles of incorporation; contents.(a) The articles of incorporation shall set forth: (1) The name of the corporation pursuant to K.S.A. 17-7918 and 17-7919, and amendments thereto, of the business entity standard treatment act; (2) the postal address of the corporation's registered office in this state stated in accordance with K.S.A. 17-7924, and amendments thereto, and the name of its resident agent at such address; [...] (5) the name and postal address of the incorporator or incorporators; and [...]
Kansas Revised Limited Liability Company Act (K.S.A. 17-7662 et seq.) · applies to
LLCs
Articles of organization; procedure for amendment; professional limited liability company, certificate by licensing body.(a) In order to form a limited liability company, one or more authorized persons must execute articles of organization. The articles of organization shall be filed with the secretary of state and set forth: (1) The name of the limited liability company; (2) the address of the registered office required to be maintained by K.S.A. 17-7924, and amendments thereto, and the name of the resident agent for service of process required to be maintained by K.S.A. 17-7925, and amendments thereto; (3) any other matters the members determine to include therein; [...]
Kansas Statutes ch. 17, art. 75 (corporation fees and business entity information reports) · applies to
corp
Domestic corporations organized for profit; business entity information report; contents; report fee.(a) Every domestic corporation organized for profit shall make a written business entity information report to the secretary of state, stating the prescribed information concerning the corporation on the day the report is filed with the secretary of state. (b) The report shall be made on forms prescribed by the secretary of state and shall be filed biennially, as determined by the year that the domestic corporation filed its formation documents. [...] The report shall be filed not later than April 15.
Kansas Revised Limited Liability Company Act (K.S.A. 17-7662 et seq.) · applies to
LLCs
Limited liability company and series thereof; business entity information report; contents; report fee.(a) Every limited liability company organized and on and after July 1, 2020, each series thereof formed or in existence under the laws of this state shall make a written business entity information report to the secretary of state, stating the prescribed information concerning the limited liability company or series, as applicable, on the day the report is filed with the secretary of state. (b) The report shall be filed biennially, as determined by the year that the limited liability company or series filed its formation documents. [...] The report shall be filed not later than April 15.
Kansas Statutes ch. 17, art. 75 (corporation fees and business entity information reports) · applies to
corp
Failure to file business entity information report or pay annual report fee; forfeiture of articles of incorporation or authority to do business in Kansas [...] (a) In addition to any other penalties, the failure of any domestic corporation to file the business entity information report in accordance with the provisions of this act or to pay the fee provided for within 90 days of the time for filing and paying the same or, in the case of a report filing and fee received by mail, postmarked within 90 days of the time for filing and paying the same, shall work the forfeiture of the articles of incorporation of such domestic corporation. [...]
Kansas Revised Limited Liability Company Act (K.S.A. 17-7662 et seq.) · applies to
LLCs
(g) The provisions of K.S.A. 17-7509, and amendments thereto, relating to penalties for failure of a corporation to file business entity information report or pay the required fee, and the provisions of K.S.A. 17-7510(a), and amendments thereto, relating to penalties for failure of a corporation to file business entity information report or pay the required fee, shall be applicable to the articles of organization of any domestic limited liability company, the certificate of designation of any series thereof, or to the authority of any foreign limited liability company that fails to file its business entity information report or pay the fee within 90 days of the time prescribed in this section for filing and paying the fee. [...]
Business Entity Standard Treatment Act (K.S.A. 17-7901 et seq.) · applies to
corp
Name requirements for corporations.(a) The name of a corporation, except for banks, savings and loan associations, savings banks and public benefit corporations, shall contain: (1) One of the following words: "Association"; "church" or well-recognized words for religious institutions; "college"; "company"; "corporation"; "club"; "foundation"; "fund"; "incorporated"; "institute"; "society"; "union"; "university"; "syndicate" or "limited"; (2) one of the following abbreviations: "Co."; "corp."; "inc." or "ltd."; or (3) words or abbreviations of like import in other languages if they are written in Roman characters or letters.
Business Entity Standard Treatment Act (K.S.A. 17-7901 et seq.) · applies to
LLCs
Name requirements for limited liability companies.(a) The name of a limited liability company shall contain: (1) One of the following phrases: "limited liability company" or "limited company"; (2) one of the following abbreviations: "L.L.C." or "L.C."; or (3) one of the following designations: "LLC" or "LC." (b) The name of a limited liability company may contain the name of a member or manager. (c) The name of a limited liability company may contain one or more of the following words: "Company"; "association"; "club"; "foundation"; "fund"; "institute"; "society"; "union"; "syndicate"; "limited"; "trust" or abbreviations of like import.
After a resident agent's resignation becomes effective with no successor designated, service of legal process on the entity is made upon the Secretary of State in the manner prescribed by K.S.A. 60-304. Similarly, if the agent dies or moves and no new agent is designated within 30 days, service may be made as prescribed by K.S.A. 60-304 (17-7926(b)).
Administrative Dissolution. If the resident agent resigns without a successor and the entity fails to designate a new agent within 60 days of the resignation filing, the Secretary of State shall declare the entity's organizing documents forfeited.
Revocation Foreign. For a foreign entity that fails to designate a new resident agent after the agent's death or move, the Secretary of State may declare the foreign entity's authority to do business in Kansas forfeited.
Reinstatement Fee. Revival after forfeiture requires filing all past-due business entity information reports for the preceding 10 years and paying all fees and penalties due (no dollar amounts stated in the captured statutes).
7 statutory citations and their supporting verbatim quotations sit behind this section in the record and are withheld from public display until the review pass lands, because a citation presented as authority is a verification claimed. Statutory references appearing inside the summaries above are part of the recorded text rather than an authority claim, and they are not rendered as citations, linked, or emitted in this page's structured data. How the gate works.
Governance rules
7 governance rules are recorded for Kansas - the organizational and annual meetings, action by written consent, and whether bylaws or an operating agreement are mandatory. Each verified rule links to the statutory text it was verified against, quoted verbatim below.
Organizational meeting required · applies to
corporations ·
yes
an organization meeting of the incorporator or incorporators, or of the board of directors if the initial directors were named in the articles of incorporation, shall be held
Annual meeting required · applies to
corporations ·
yes
Unless directors are elected by written consent in lieu of an annual meeting as permitted by this subsection, an annual meeting of stockholders shall be held for the election of directors
Action by written consent allowed · applies to
corporations ·
yes
Unless otherwise provided in the articles of incorporation, any action... may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, if a consent or consents... are signed by the holders of outstanding stock having not less than the minimum number of votes
the original or other bylaws of a corporation may be adopted, amended or repealed by the incorporators, unless the initial directors were named in the articles of incorporation
Operating agreement required · applies to
LLCs ·
no
"Operating agreement" means any agreement, whether referred to as an operating agreement, limited liability company agreement or otherwise, written, oral, or implied, of the member or members
An operating agreement may set forth provisions relating to notice of the time, place or purpose of any meeting at which any matter is to be voted on by any members
Action by written consent allowed · applies to
LLCs ·
yes
the members may take such action without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, if consented to or approved, in writing, by electronic transmission... by members having not less than the minimum number of votes
Kansas has no general assumed-name / DBA / fictitious-business-name registration act. Nothing in the Kansas corpus (General Corporation Code, LLC Act, partnership acts, BEST Act, or chapter 81) requires or provides a DBA filing for sole proprietors, partnerships, or entities, and the retrieval manifest records the Kansas Secretary of State's confirmation that state law neither requires nor permits DBA/fictitious-name registration. What does exist is the voluntary Revised Kansas Trademark Act (K.S.A. 81-201 et seq.), under which a person using a trademark or service mark may register the mark with the Secretary of State; 'trade name' is defined in the act but its registration provisions apply to marks.
Where it is filed
There is no DBA filing office in Kansas because there is no DBA registration act. The only adjacent state registry is the Secretary of State's voluntary trademark / service-mark register under the Revised Kansas Trademark Act.
Assumed names for registered entities
Kansas entity law contains no assumed-name filing mechanism and, unusually, no fictitious-name adoption for foreign entities whose real name is taken. Under the Business Entity Standard Treatment Act, domestic covered-entity names must be distinguishable on the Secretary of State's records (K.S.A. 17-7918), and a foreign covered entity whose name conflicts may register only with the other registrant's written consent or by identifying its state of formation in its advertising - it does not adopt a Kansas fictitious name.
Regime: is supported by absence of any assumed-name act across the Kansas corpus plus the KS SOS business-entity FAQ noted in the retrieval manifest; the FAQ page itself is not in the corpus, and no statute affirmatively states that DBA registration is unavailable, so there is no quotable 'no registration' text
Fees: not applicable - no DBA act; trademark-act fees delegated to the secretary and not extracted
Common questions
Does Kansas require a DBA or fictitious-name filing?
No. Kansas has no general assumed-name or fictitious-business-name registration act - there is no statute requiring sole proprietors, partnerships, or entities to register a DBA, and no state or county office that accepts one.
Is there any way to register a business name with the Kansas Secretary of State?
What happens if an out-of-state company's name is already taken in Kansas?
Kansas does not use the fictitious-name approach most states use. Under K.S.A. 17-7933(b), a foreign covered entity may register under a conflicting name only with the written consent of the other entity, or by identifying its state of formation in its advertising within Kansas with that condition set out in its application.
Recurring entity-level tax
No franchise or privilege tax in this jurisdiction
Stored as a delta against the federal baseline:
2 days this state closes that the
federal government does not, and 2 federal
holidays its filing office works through.
Kansas 2026 closure delta
Date
Day
Filing office
2026-02-16
Washington's Birthday (Presidents Day)
OPEN - federal holiday not observed
2026-10-12
Columbus Day
OPEN - federal holiday not observed
2026-11-27
Day After Thanksgiving
Filing office closed
2026-12-24
Christmas Eve
Filing office closed
Provenance - Kansas 2026 closures◎Verified
Citation withheld: this record did not clear the publication gate.
FORFEITED - FAILED TO DESIGNATE A NEW RESIDENT AGE
Not in good standing
high
FORFEITED - FAILED TO DESIGNATE NEW RESIDENT AGENT
Not in good standing
high
FORFEITED - FAILED TO TIMELY FILE A/R
Not in good standing
high
FORFEITED - FAILED TO TIMELY FILE I/R
Not in good standing
high
FORFEITED - FAILED TO TIMELY FILE I/R - PRIOR TO ORDERING SERVICES
Not in good standing
high
FORFEITED - INSUFFICIENT FUNDS
Not in good standing
high
FORFEITED - PURSUANT TO STATE BOARD
Not in good standing
high
FORFEITED-BY COURT ORDER
Not in good standing
high
GENERAL PARTNERSHIP EXPIRED
Not in good standing
medium
GENERAL PARTNERSHIP REGISTERED
In good standing
medium
INCOMPLETE FILING -- NEVER ACTIVATED
Unresolved - do not automate on this
medium
MERGED OUT OF EXISTENCE
Not in good standing
medium
NON SOS
Unresolved - do not automate on this
medium
NOT FILED
Unresolved - do not automate on this
medium
NOT FILED / NON SOS
Unresolved - do not automate on this
medium
NOT SOS FILED
Unresolved - do not automate on this
low
NOT YET FILED
Unresolved - do not automate on this
medium
REDOMESTICATED IN
Not in good standing
medium
REDOMESTICATED OUT
Not in good standing
medium
REGISTERED
In good standing
medium
REVOKED
Not in good standing
high
SERVICE AGENT/STATUS NOT REQUIRED
Unresolved - do not automate on this
low
STATUS PENDING EXAMINATION OF A/R
Unresolved - do not automate on this
medium
UNKNOWN
Unresolved - do not automate on this
high
WITHDRAWN
Not in good standing
high
Restricted entity-name words
2 restricted entity-name word entries
are recorded for Kansas - 1 prohibited outright,
the rest requiring an agency's consent or licensure before the word may appear in a name.
Governing law: K.S.A. 17-7918 to 17-7921 (Business Entity Standard Treatment Act, name sections).
Kansas restricted entity-name words
Treatment
Word or phrase
Authority
Citation
Status
License required
bank / banking business, trust business (holding out as engaged in)
Kansas state bank commissioner
K.S.A. 9-2011: unlawful for any individual, firm or corporation to advertise, publish or otherwise promulgate that they are engaged in the banking business or trust business without first having obtained authority from the commissioner; class A nonperson misdemeanor
◎Verified
Prohibited
credit union
K.S.A. 17-2203: only credit unions organized under the state credit union code or federal law, associations of credit unions, or organizations whose membership/ownership is restricted to credit unions may use any name, website URL or title containing the words 'credit union' or any derivation thereof; class A misdemeanor
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Contact the filing office
Verified against the agency's own contact page
2026-08-13 - office hours: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m..
Source links render on verified rows only.
Kansas Secretary of State, Docking State Office Building, 915 SW Harrison Street, Topeka, KS 66612
Courier / walk-in
Docking State Office Building, 915 SW Harrison Street, Topeka, KS 66612 (street address - same for courier)
Kansas publishes a single consolidated surface: one phone, one street address (no PO box), one business-services email - all confirmed on the current Form DL footer (rev. 2/27/26); online filing at sos.ks.gov is cheaper ($85 vs $90 for LLC articles) and instant
Purposed contact channels, Kansas
Kind
Value
What it is for
Purpose
Source
phone
(785) 296-4564
Kansas Secretary of State main line (printed on all business filing forms)
Where to search Kansas's UCC (Article 9) financing statements, on what terms, and what the office charges to file one. Verified against the filing office's own pages 2026-09-11. UCC division contacts are listed with the other filing-office contacts above.
UCC records - Kansas◎Verified
Filing office
Kansas Secretary of State (UCC administered by the Business Services Division; web section titled 'General Services | UCC Filing Information'; online system 'Kansas Secretary of State UCC System' / KSUCC)
Filing-office statute
K.S.A. 84-9-501 (read at https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch84/084_009_0501.html): 'the office of the secretary of state, in all other cases, including a case in which the collateral is goods that are or are to become fixtures and the financing statement is not filed as a fixture filing'; fixture filings / as-extracted collateral / timber to be cut go to the office designated for recording a mortgage on the related real property (register of deeds)
$10 online or $20 on paper, plus $1 per page after the first 10 pages; transmitting-utility financing statements $50 plus $1 per page after the first 10 pages; no charge for additional debtors
Filing channels
online or paper; Online through the Kansas Secretary of State UCC System (KSUCC, https://mykansas.ks.gov/ucc/secure/) - subscription account required; paper by mail to Kansas Secretary of State, Docking State Office B
No paid expedite tier. The Secretary of State's FAQ answers the expedite question with 'Expedited service is the online filing and searching system'; online UCC filings are immediately available on the monetary receipt page. The FAQ states no processing time for paper filings (its two-business-day f
UCC-3 amendments, as the office states the fees
UCC-3 amendments (amendment, continuation, termination, assignment) $10 online or $20 on paper, plus $1 per page after the first 10 pages; correction statement $20
Effective for
5 years from filing - K.S.A. 84-9-515(a)
Bulk data
published bulk-data program - $7,500 Bulk Customer Enrollment (per entity)
Whether Kansas requires a general state-level business license, and on what terms. A "None" is a verified finding cited to the agency's own pages, not a gap. Which of the state's filings ask for an industry code is in the next section.
State business license - Kansas◎Verified
General state license
None - the state issues no general business license; licensing is occupation-specific and local
Where a new business registers
Kansas Department of Revenue (business tax registration via Kansas Customer Service Center / Form CR-16) - no general license issuer agency page↗ (opens the official source)
county and city licenses - Businesses should also check with the county and local government where they are doing business to determine any local permitting, filing, and reporting requirements.
Which of Kansas's business filings ask the filer for an industry classification, and in what form. "No industry information" is a positive finding cited to the form. Where the state uses its own category list and the list was captured, it is expandable below. The NAICS and SIC reference lists are on their own page.
Industry code on Kansas filings, 6 of 6 rows verified
Kansas has 105 county-equivalents: 105 countyies. Names and codes are the U.S. Census Bureau's (2020 national county codes); county seats and official sites are not yet published here.
All 105 county-equivalents
Kansas county-equivalents
Name
Type
FIPS
Note
Allen County
county
20001
Anderson County
county
20003
Atchison County
county
20005
Barber County
county
20007
Barton County
county
20009
Bourbon County
county
20011
Brown County
county
20013
Butler County
county
20015
Chase County
county
20017
Chautauqua County
county
20019
Cherokee County
county
20021
Cheyenne County
county
20023
Clark County
county
20025
Clay County
county
20027
Cloud County
county
20029
Coffey County
county
20031
Comanche County
county
20033
Cowley County
county
20035
Crawford County
county
20037
Decatur County
county
20039
Dickinson County
county
20041
Doniphan County
county
20043
Douglas County
county
20045
Edwards County
county
20047
Elk County
county
20049
Ellis County
county
20051
Ellsworth County
county
20053
Finney County
county
20055
Ford County
county
20057
Franklin County
county
20059
Geary County
county
20061
Gove County
county
20063
Graham County
county
20065
Grant County
county
20067
Gray County
county
20069
Greeley County
county
20071
consolidated city-county
Greenwood County
county
20073
Hamilton County
county
20075
Harper County
county
20077
Harvey County
county
20079
Haskell County
county
20081
Hodgeman County
county
20083
Jackson County
county
20085
Jefferson County
county
20087
Jewell County
county
20089
Johnson County
county
20091
Kearny County
county
20093
Kingman County
county
20095
Kiowa County
county
20097
Labette County
county
20099
Lane County
county
20101
Leavenworth County
county
20103
Lincoln County
county
20105
Linn County
county
20107
Logan County
county
20109
Lyon County
county
20111
McPherson County
county
20113
Marion County
county
20115
Marshall County
county
20117
Meade County
county
20119
Miami County
county
20121
Mitchell County
county
20123
Montgomery County
county
20125
Morris County
county
20127
Morton County
county
20129
Nemaha County
county
20131
Neosho County
county
20133
Ness County
county
20135
Norton County
county
20137
Osage County
county
20139
Osborne County
county
20141
Ottawa County
county
20143
Pawnee County
county
20145
Phillips County
county
20147
Pottawatomie County
county
20149
Pratt County
county
20151
Rawlins County
county
20153
Reno County
county
20155
Republic County
county
20157
Rice County
county
20159
Riley County
county
20161
Rooks County
county
20163
Rush County
county
20165
Russell County
county
20167
Saline County
county
20169
Scott County
county
20171
Sedgwick County
county
20173
Seward County
county
20175
Shawnee County
county
20177
Sheridan County
county
20179
Sherman County
county
20181
Smith County
county
20183
Stafford County
county
20185
Stanton County
county
20187
Stevens County
county
20189
Sumner County
county
20191
Thomas County
county
20193
Trego County
county
20195
Wabaunsee County
county
20197
Wallace County
county
20199
Washington County
county
20201
Wichita County
county
20203
Wilson County
county
20205
Woodson County
county
20207
Wyandotte County
county
20209
consolidated city-county
Other records held
Other records held for Kansas
Record
Value
Status
State trademark registration
$25 per class, 5 year term, $25 renewal
○Pending review
Change of registered agent
$35
○Pending review
Who must be named in public filings
Formation: articles require resident agent + registered office + incorporator/organizer signature only - no member/manager or officer/director listing at formation. The exposure comes at the BIENNIAL information report: LLC report (K.S.A. 17-76,139(c), form ILC) must list all MEMBERS OWNING >=5% OF CAPITAL with address
○Pending review
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