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Cost position
Ranked 17 of 51 on first-year state
filing cost, at $130.00 against a national median
of $175.00.
Recurring annual cost $26.
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Registered-agent statutes, quoted verbatim
The one section on this page that clears the publication gate in full. 3 citations, verified, quoted from the official code with every elision marked.
Okla. Stat. tit. 18, § 1021
◎Verified
Oklahoma General Corporation Act (Okla. Stat. tit. 18) · applies to
corporations
Registered office in state - Principal office or place of business in state.A. Every corporation shall have and maintain in this state a registered office which may, but need not be, the same as its place of business. [...] C. As contained in any certificate of incorporationArticles of incorporationThe document filed with the state to create a corporation.Read the full entry → or other document filed with the Secretary of State under this title, the address of a registered office shall include the street, number, city, state and postal code.
Oklahoma Limited Liability Company Act (Okla. Stat. tit. 18, §§ 2000-2060) · applies to
LLCs
Registered office and agent.A. Every domestic limited liability company and registered series shall continuously maintain in this state: 1. A registered office which may be, but need not be, the same as its principal place of business; and 2. A registered agent for service of process on the limited liability company or registered series that may be the domestic limited liability company or registered series itself, an individual resident of this state or a domestic or qualified foreign corporation, limited liability company or general or limited partnership including a limited liability partnership or a limited liability limited partnership. Each registered agent shall maintain a business office identical with the registered office which is open during regular business hours to accept service of process and otherwise perform the functions of a registered agent.
Every domestic corporation must maintain a registered agent, which may be the corporation ITSELF, an individual Oklahoma resident, a domestic corporation/partnership/LLP/LLLP/LLC, or a foreign entity authorized to transact business in Oklahoma. Entity agents must keep a business office identical with the registered office open during regular business hours; individual agents must be generally present there. LLCs mirror this (the LLC itself, a resident individual, or a domestic/qualified foreign entity, 18 O.S. § 2010(A)(2)). Foreign corporations must maintain the Secretary of State as registered agent and may add an additional agent, but may not be their own agent (18 O.S. § 1022(B)).
Is the agent's consent required
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Consent required: no.
What happens when the agent cannot be served
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When an entity has no registered agent or the agent cannot be found, service of process may be made by serving the Secretary of State as the entity's agent, as provided in 12 O.S. § 2004 (the civil procedure code). Stated for corporations after an uncured agent resignation (§ 1026(C)) and generally for LLCs (§ 2010(E)).
What happens if there is no agent
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Other. If a domestic corporation fails to designate a new registered agent within 30 days after its agent resigns, the Secretary of State is deemed the corporation's registered agent and charges the annual fee prescribed by 18 O.S. § 1142 for acting as agent.
Other. Charter suspension and forfeiture: a corporation that does not pay the $100 annual fee for the Secretary of State acting as its registered agent by September 1 has its charter suspended and forfeited by the Oklahoma Tax Commission under 68 O.S. § 1212.
No Court Access. An LLC that has ceased to be in good standing (or a foreign LLC that has ceased to be registered) may not maintain any action, suit, or proceeding in an Oklahoma court until reinstated; it may still defend actions and its contracts remain valid (18 O.S. § 2055.3(C)).
Reinstatement Fee. Reinstatement of an LLC (including one whose articles were canceled under § 2012.1(B)) requires filing all delinquent annual certificates and paying all delinquent annual certificate fees or registered agent fees, plus an application for reinstatement; a name change may be forced if the old name is no longer available.
Dollar amounts named in the registered-agent statutes
What
Amount
Status
Annual fee for the Secretary of State acting as a corporation's registered agent (nonpayment triggers charter suspension/forfeiture)
$100.00 per year
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Each service of process made upon and accepted by the Secretary of State (corporations fee schedule)
$25.00
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Filing a change of address, change of name, or resignation of a corporation's registered agent ($5.00 for each additional corporation within a bulk filing beyond the first forty)
$25.00
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Annual fee for the Secretary of State acting as registered agent of an LLC or registered series
$40.00 per year
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Service of notice, demand, or process upon the Secretary of State as resident agent of an LLC (recoverable as taxable costs by a prevailing party)
$25.00
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Filing an LLC statement of change of address of the principal office or change of resident agent, or both
$25.00
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LLC annual certificate fee (nonpayment path that leads to loss of good standing and eventual cancellation)
$25.00
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Governance rules
Oklahoma corporate and LLC governance rules
Rule
Entity
Applies
Detail
Status
Organizational Meeting Required
Corporation
yes
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Annual Meeting Required
Corporation
yes
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Written Consent In Lieu Allowed
Corporation
yes
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Bylaws Required
Corporation
yes
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Operating Agreement Required
LLC
no
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Annual Meeting Required
LLC
no
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Written Consent In Lieu Allowed
LLC
yes
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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.
perpetual (no expiration or renewal provision in statute, form, or fee schedule)
Renewal
None - no renewal requirement; file Amended Trade Name ($25) for changes or Withdrawal ($25) to cancel
Publication
Not required. None
Online filing
Available
The regime
Oklahoma is a state-level filing regime: a business operating under a name other than its legal name files a trade name report with the Oklahoma Secretary of State under 18 O.S. § 1140, and partnerships operating under a fictitious name file a separate fictitious name certificate with the Secretary of State under 54 O.S. § 81. There is no county-level DBA filing.
Where it is filed
Both the general trade name report (18 O.S. § 1140) and the partnership fictitious name certificate (54 O.S. § 81) are filed with the Oklahoma Secretary of State.
Name restrictions
The trade name must be distinguishable on the Secretary of State's records from names of domestic and foreign business entities (existing now or within the preceding three years), other trade names or fictitious names on file, and reserved names.
Assumed names for registered entities
The entity-side mechanism is the same § 1140 trade name report (it is written for corporations and other business entities). For name conflicts, 18 O.S. § 1141(3) lets a foreign business entity whose true name is unavailable in Oklahoma qualify by adopting a fictitious name by resolution, used to the exclusion of its true name in the state.
Penalties
Partners doing business under an unregistered fictitious name cannot maintain any action on partnership contracts or transactions in Oklahoma courts until the certificate is filed; compliance at any time removes the disability retroactively.
With the Oklahoma Secretary of State. 18 O.S. § 1140(A) requires a corporation or other business entity doing business under any name other than its legal name to file a trade name report with the Secretary of State, and 54 O.S. § 81(A) requires a partnership transacting business under a fictitious name to file a certificate with the Secretary of State. Oklahoma's statutes place these filings at the state level, not with a county clerk.
Does my Oklahoma trade name have to be different from existing names?
Yes. Under 18 O.S. § 1140(A), the trade name must be distinguishable on the Secretary of State's records from the names of domestic and foreign business entities (existing now or at any time in the preceding three years), from other trade names or fictitious names on file, and from reserved names.
What happens if a partnership does business under an unregistered fictitious name in Oklahoma?
Under 54 O.S. § 83, the partners may not maintain any action on partnership contracts or transactions in Oklahoma courts until the certificate is filed. The statute also provides that filing at any time restores the right to sue on contracts entered into both before and after compliance.
What if a company expanding into Oklahoma finds its name is already taken?
18 O.S. § 1141(3) addresses this: a foreign business entity whose name is the same as or indistinguishable from a name already on file may qualify to do business in Oklahoma by adopting, by duly executed resolution, a fictitious name that is not prohibited, which it must then use to the exclusion of its true name when transacting business in the state.
$0 - Oklahoma franchise tax REPEALED effective tax year 2024 (2023 HB 1039X); tax year 2023 was the last required return (Form 200/FRX-200). Residual computable obligations: (1) foreign corporations, including nonprofits, pay a flat $100.00/yr Registered Agents Fee to the Oklahoma Tax Commission (Form FRX 200-R), due July 1, charter suspension exposure under 68 O.S. 1212 if unpaid by September 1; (2) legacy pre-2024 franchise arrears may still support OTC suspension. No franchise tax applies to LLCs, LPs, or LLPs.
No per-state franchise-tax research document exists for this jurisdiction.
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Filing-office closures, 2026
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.
LLC: articles of organization (Form 0074) and the annual certificate disclose NO members or managers - the annual certificate contains only an active-status checkbox, principal place of business street address, and contact email (form field inventory, annual_report wave); the RA-change statement is signed by 'any manag
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