Form 0081: the Oklahoma LLC certificate of registration

Enter the company's name as it appears at home. Oklahoma's list of endings is limited liability company, limited company, LLC, LC, L.L.C. or L.C., and the name must be distinguishable on the records from other registered names. If it fails, the form says to attach the fictitious name report or a manager's statement adopting a fictitious name.

The Oklahoma agent is an Oklahoma resident, or a domestic or qualified foreign entity. A real street address is required for the registered office, and post office boxes are ruled out on the form itself. That office has to be open during regular hours.

Enter the home-state office that the LLC is required to keep. If the home state requires none, give the principal office.

What you attach is a certificate of good standing, existence or (in Texas) fact: an original signed off by the home officer and dated inside 60 days. Counting runs from the date printed on it to the day the filing reaches Oklahoma.

The procedures sheet, SOS Form 0083, travels with the form. It repeats the steps, explains the name rule and agent options and ends with the exceptions list. It adds that the Secretary of State will not rule on whether a given company qualifies for an exception.

Imagine Prairie Wind Holdings LLC, formed in Kansas on a given date, with an Oklahoma agent on a Tulsa street and a Wichita principal office. Item 1 reads the full name with its LLC ending. Item 2 reads Kansas. Item 3 reads the formation date. Item 4 reads the agent's name and Tulsa street address. Item 5 stays as printed. Item 6 reads the Wichita office. Item 7 reads a monitored email. A member signs and dates. That is the whole form.

A certificate older than the limit, an agent at a P.O. box, no accepted ending, a missing signature or a short payment all hold a filing up. We check each before sending.

$199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.