Nevada

Every Nevada corporation (and, in parallel provisions, every LLC) must have a registered agent who resides or is located in Nevada with a street address that serves as the registered office. Under the Model Registered Agents Act (NRS ch. 77), a noncommercial registered agent may be an individual or a domestic or foreign entity serving in the state, or the entity may designate the holder of an office or position within the entity (NRS 77.310(1)(b)(2)). Anyone serving as agent for 10 or more entities must register as a commercial registered agent (NRS 77.320(1)); commercial-agent registrants must attest to no unrestored felony convictions (NRS 77.320(2)(e)).

Consent required: yes.

The entity code cross-references the civil-practice chapter: process is served on the registered agent per NRS 14.020(2), and when the registered agent cannot be served, service is made in the manner provided in NRS 14.030 (Chapter 14 of NRS, outside this corpus). NRS 77.360(5)(a) likewise directs that after cancellation of a commercial agent's registration, 'until the entity appoints a new registered agent, service of process may be made in the manner provided by NRS 14.030.'

• Civil Penalty. A corporation that fails or refuses to comply with the registered agent/registered office requirement is subject to a fine of $100 to $500, recovered by the State through the Attorney General or district attorney.
• Other. If the registered agent resigns or terminates and the corporation does not file a statement of change appointing a replacement before the effective date, the corporation is deemed in default and becomes subject to the default and charter-revocation provisions (NRS 78.170 and 78.175). The LLC act has the identical mechanism (NRS 86.251(2), invoking NRS 86.272 and 86.274).
• Civil Penalty. A corporation in default incurs a $75 penalty added to the fee owed.
• Administrative DissolutionRevocation / administrative dissolutionThe state involuntarily ending an entity's authority to do business - for missed annual reports, a lapsed registered agent, or unpaid fees.Read the full entry →. For a corporation left in default, the charter is revoked and the right to transact business forfeited on the first day of the first anniversary of the month following the month the filing was required; assets are then held in trust by the directors as for insolvent corporations.
• ReinstatementReinstatementRestoring an entity the state revoked or administratively dissolved for missed filings - typically back-filing reports, paying accrued fees and penalties, and filing an application.Read the full entry → Fee. Reinstatement requires filing the delinquent annual list, current registered agent information (NRS 77.310), all back fees and penalties, and a $300 reinstatement fee; a charter revoked for 5 consecutive years cannot be reinstated.
• Other. Name loss: if the corporation's name has been legally reserved or acquired by another entity during revocation, the corporation must reinstate under a different name (absent the other party's written consent).

Filing officeFiling officeThe agency that keeps the business register.Read the full entry →

County Clerk of each county where business is conducted (NRS 602.010). No state-level DBA filing; NV SOS only hosts a county-clerk directory.

State fee

n/a (county-only; fees set per county, typically $20-$25)

Term

County-optional 5 years (NRS 602.035): counties that adopted the ordinance (Clark, Washoe, Churchill, Nye, Eureka, Storey, etc.) expire FFNs 5 years after filing; counties without it (e.g. Pershing) are perpetual

Renewal

Where the 5-year ordinance applies, file a renewal certificate before expiration at the same fee as the original (e.g. Clark $25, Eureka $20). Clark mails reminders ~60 days out.

Publication

Not required. No newspaper publicationPublication requirementA few states require newly formed or registered entities to publish a notice in designated newspapers (New York's LLC publication is the expensive example) - a real cost of formation that fee tables usually omit.Read the full entry → required of the registrant. (NRS 602.035 only requires the CLERK to publish notice when a county first adopts an expiration ordinance.)

Online filing

Not available

The regime

Nevada requires every person doing business under an assumed or fictitious nameDBA / fictitious nameA name a business operates under that is not its legal name - 'doing business as.' Also: assumed name, trade name, fictitious business name.Read the full entry → different from the legal name of each owner to file a certificate with the county clerk of each county where the business is conducted - a county-level filing, not a Secretary of State filing. The certificate must be filed no later than 1 month after business commences under the name.

Where it is filed

The county clerk of each county in which the business is being conducted (or is intended to be conducted). Each county clerk keeps an alphabetical public register of the assumed or fictitious names filed.

Publication

The chapter imposes no newspaper-publication duty on the filer. The only publication mentioned is by the county clerk: when a county adopts a 5-year expiration ordinance, the clerk must publish notice of the renewal requirement in a newspaper of general circulation and mail notice to filers.

Term and renewal

Duration varies by county: a board of county commissioners may provide by ordinance that certificates expire 5 years after filing. Where such an ordinance exists, a renewal certificate must be filed on or before expiration, and each renewal certificate itself expires 5 years after it is filed. Without an ordinance the statute states no expiration.

Name restrictions

NRS 602.017 bars fictitious names containing entity indicators the filer is not entitled to ('Corporation'/'Corp.'/'Inc.' unless a Nevada-organized or qualified corporation; 'LLC'/'L.C.' unless an LLC; 'Business Trust'/'B.T.'; 'Professional Corporation'/'P.C.'/'Chartered'; 'Professional Association'; 'Limited'/'Ltd.'), names imitating a government or tribal entity, and - for natural persons - fictitious names that appear to be a natural person's name without a distinguishing word. County clerks may not accept violative certificates.

Assumed names for registered entities

Nevada has no separate SOS-level assumed-name mechanism for registered entities in this chapter - corporations, LLCs and other artificial persons operating under a name different from their legal name file the same county-clerk certificate (the certificate contents for an 'artificial person' are its name and mailing address, NRS 602.020(1)(b)), and an LLC series is deemed a fictitious name unless it identifies itself as a series of the authorizing LLC (NRS 602.010(3)). Only registered limited partnerships are exempt.

Penalties

No action may be commenced or maintained on any contract made or transaction had under the assumed or fictitious name, or on any cause of action growing out of the business, unless the required certificate has been filed before the action is commenced (NRS 602.070).
Doing business without complying with the chapter, or falsely filing a certificate of termination, is a misdemeanor: 'A person doing business in this state without complying with the requirements of this chapter or having falsely filed a certificate of termination, is guilty of a misdemeanor.'

Official source

www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-602.html↗ (opens the official source)

What it is called

not captured

Administering agency

Nevada Secretary of State, Commercial Recordings Division (annual list + SBL); Commerce Tax (out of corpus) would be Dept. of Taxation

Corporation minimum

not recorded separately

How it is computed

Nevada imposes NO franchise taxFranchise taxA recurring tax on the privilege of existing as an entity in a state - not a tax on franchising a business.Read the full entry → and NO corporate income tax (foreign_withdrawal wave, tax_clearance datum: 'NV has no corporate income tax; state business-license and list fees are the exposure'; no franchise-tax provision anywhere in the captured NRS Title 7 chapters 77/78/82/86/87/87A/88/92A). The FUNCTIONAL analog is fully computable: (1) Annual List fee - LLC/LP/LLP $150 flat; corp graduated on authorized stock value per NRS 78.150(4)(b) with NRS 78.760(3)-(4) valuation (aggregate par value; no-par at $1.00; par <$0.001 at $0.001): <=$75k=$150, >$75k-$200k=$200, >$200k-$500k=$300, >$500k-$1M=$400, >$1M=$400+$275/additional $500k or fraction, cap $11,125; nonprofit $50; PLUS (2) State Business License NRS 76.100/76.130 - $500/yr ch.78/78A/78B/80 corporations ($200 for ch.89 professional corps per SOS form note), $200/yr all other for-profits, $0 ch.82/84 nonprofits (NRS 76.020(2)(e)). CAVEAT: Nevada's gross-receipts COMMERCE TAX (NRS ch. 363C, applies above ~$4M NV revenue) is NOT in the corpus and is not assessed here - flagged as a gap.