Corporation Registered-Agent Change and Resignation Requirements in Wyoming

At a glance

Requirements one by one

Governing law, entity, and scope

W.S. § 17-16-501 makes every Wyoming business corporation continuously maintain the office and agent required by the common Registered Offices and Agents Act, W.S. §§ 17-28-101 to 17-28-111. The old corporation-specific change, resignation, and service sections at §§ 17-16-502 to 17-16-508 are repealed.

The common act therefore controls both ordinary and commercial agents, while the corporation act supplies execution, filing effect, correction, annual- report, and dissolution rules.

Continuous office, agent, and eligibility

An individual agent must be at least 18, reside in Wyoming, and use a business office identical to the registered office. A domestic or authorized foreign entity agent also uses the identical office and has a written agreement giving a natural person authority to accept process.

Once a person serves more than 10 entities, W.S. § 17-28-105 requires commercial registration. Every agent certifies chapter compliance and maintains an email address usable for limited Secretary-of-State service.

Corporation authority and internal approval

W.S. § 17-28-102 says the business entity signs and delivers the statement. The complete current common-agent chapter states no separate board or shareholder approval threshold.

For a corporation, W.S. § 17-16-120 authorizes execution by the board chair, president, or another officer. The current SOS form uses the broader label “authorized individual,” so the signer should state the actual corporate title and confirm present authority.

Statement, consent, and filing formalities

The statement gives the corporation name, current office and agent, each new office or agent, compliance and identical-address certifications, and the agent's email. A replacement agent executes written consent on the statement or an attachment.

Section 17-16-120 requires the signer's name and capacity but expressly makes a seal, secretary attestation, acknowledgment, verification, and proof optional. Current SOS forms require the entity and agent signatures, dates, contact information, and a required email.

Registered-office and agent-office identity

W.S. § 17-28-101 requires a Wyoming street address that is a physical location where the agent or its authorized natural person can accept service and is physically present. The agent's business office and registered office must be identical.

SOS guidance excludes a P.O.-box-only, drop-box, mail-forwarding, or UPS-store location and describes the agent as available during normal business hours. The statute does not set a numbered daily time window.

Agent-initiated and commercial changes

An agent changing its own address or name files under § 17-28-102 after written notice to every represented entity. The current information-update form says the change reaches every active or inactive entity represented by the agent and costs $5 for each.

Commercial agents register annually after crossing the more-than-10-entity threshold. Section 17-28-107 also requires physical and email addresses, service acceptance, delivery records, designated-contact information, and specified domestic-entity records kept current on the statutory schedule.

Resignation, notice, and successor gap

Wyoming reverses the sequence common elsewhere. Under W.S. § 17-28-103, the agent first sends at least 30 days' notice to the last known entity address, addressed to an officer or other authorized person other than the agent. The agent then files the original plus one exact or conformed copy for each entity.

Filing ends the appointment immediately. The successor-coupled form also needs each corporation's ratification, a new office, and the new agent's compliance certification. Either current SOS resignation form charges $5 per affected entity.

Effective time, fee, report, and correction routes

An ordinary entity change follows W.S. § 17-16-123: it is normally effective when received for filing or at a stated same-day time, and a delayed effective date may be no later than day 90. Resignation is the special case made immediate by § 17-28-103.

The July 2026 SOS schedule sets appointment of a new agent and office at $5, agent information updates at $5 per affected entity, and resignation at $5 per affected entity. Its $1,400 same-day and $700 next-business-day expedite tiers apply only to eligible filings and exclude filings available online.

The annual report in W.S. § 17-16-1630 reports officers, directors, principal office, and Wyoming assets; it does not provide an agent or registered-office change field. Articles of correction relate back except against adversely affected reliance on the uncorrected filing.

Service and administrative default

When the agent is absent or cannot be served with reasonable diligence, W.S. § 17-28-104 permits registered or certified mail to the principal office. Service is complete on the earliest of receipt, signed return date, or day five after correct prepaid mailing. A formation-time consent also permits limited Secretary electronic service, complete when sent.

An unreplaced resignation makes the Secretary the service agent and immediately causes delinquent classification. W.S. § 17-16-1420 separately makes no agent or office—and failure to report a change, resignation, or discontinuance within 30 days—administrative-dissolution grounds. After served notice, § 17-16-1421 gives 60 days to cure or disprove the ground. Dissolution limits the corporation to winding up and does not terminate the agent's authority.

What trips people up

The 30-day resignation period comes before filing. Once the agent files, the appointment ends that day; it does not remain active for another 30 days.

The $5 agent fee is more specific than the $60 general filing line. The current SOS schedule separately prices appointment, update, and resignation under “Registered Agents and Commercial Registered Agents.”

Changing the registered office does not automatically change every address. The entity form separately asks whether the mailing and principal addresses should follow the new registered office.

Common questions

Can an owner serve personally? Yes if the owner is at least 18, resides in Wyoming, and independently meets the physical-office and other agent duties.

Does a missing agent prevent service? No. Tracked mail and the limited Secretary electronic-service route remain available, along with methods allowed by the Wyoming Rules of Civil Procedure.

May an agent resign from several corporations at once? Yes. The current form allows every represented entity or an attached entity list, but charges $5 for each affected entity and requires the notice date for each.

Statutes and sources

• W.S. §§ 17-16-120 to -124, -501, -1420 to -1421, and -1630 — corporation execution, filing effect, correction, continuous duty, dissolution grounds and cure, and annual-report boundary. https://wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title17.pdf (accessed 2026-08-23).
• W.S. §§ 17-28-101 to -107 — eligibility, physical office, consent, entity and agent changes, commercial registration, resignation, service, and agent/entity duties. https://wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title17.pdf (accessed 2026-08-23).
• Wyoming SOS Appointment of New Registered Agent and Office, Registered Agent Information Update, and both resignation forms — current agency fields, signatures, notice recital, immediate filing effect, and per-entity fees. https://sos.wyo.gov/Forms/RA/AppointmentofNewRA.pdf and https://sos.wyo.gov/Forms/RA/RAResignation.pdf (accessed 2026-08-23).
• Wyoming SOS Business Division Filing Fee Schedule effective July 1, 2026, and How to Request an Expedited Filing, revised June 2026 — ordinary agent fees, commercial registration, expedite prices, deadlines, and exclusions. https://sos.wyo.gov/business/docs/businessfees.pdf and https://sos.wyo.gov/Business/Docs/HowToRequestAnExpeditedFiling.pdf (accessed 2026-08-23).