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Can You Be Your Own Registered Agent in Montana? Yes, If You Meet These Rules
Generally yes, if you are an individual who meets the Montana rule below: A commercial registered agent listed with the Secretary of State, or a noncommercial agent: an individual, including an owner, or an entity in Montana. Check with the Montana Secretary of State before you file.
The Montana rule
Who can serve: A commercial registered agent listed with the Secretary of State, or a noncommercial agent: an individual, including an owner, or an entity in Montana.
The address: The address has to be an actual street address or rural route box number in Montana. A P.O. box alone is not enough.
Whether the LLC itself can be named is not settled by our sheet; check with the Montana Secretary of State. Changing agents in Montana has no state fee. Source: Mont. Code Ann. § 35-7-105, checked October 20, 2026.
The trade-offs
- Your Montana address goes on the public filing.
- Papers are handed to you at that address, so you need to be there when the state’s rule says.
- If you move, you file a change of agent (no state fee in Montana).
If you would rather not
Mainstay Filing is $149 a year for registered agent service in Montana, the same at renewal. Service of process is scanned and uploaded the same business day at no fee.
Can I be my own registered agent in Montana?
Generally yes, if you are an individual who meets the Montana rule below: A commercial registered agent listed with the Secretary of State, or a noncommercial agent: an individual, including an owner, or an entity in Montana. Check with the Montana Secretary of State before you file.
What does it cost to change registered agents in Montana?
Montana charges no state fee to change a registered agent.