A
registered agent is an individual who ensures that the corporation
has a representative in the state in which the company has
been incorporated to receive legal documents. The registered
agent is responsible for sending all documents or mail to
the corporation's main address. Companies that do not operate
in the state in which they were incorporated normally use
agent service companies as their registered agent.
It
is a law in most states, that a corporation should have
a registered agent/ office within the state in which the
corporation was incorporated. The address of the registered
office does not necessarily have to be the same as the corporation's
actual business address. The only stipulation is that the
registered agent's address cannot be a P.O. Box address.
The agent should have a valid street address. The main responsibility
of the registered agent is to receive and forward important
legal documents for the corporation and to notify the corporation
of legal service of process.
