183.0115 Registered agent and registered office.
(1) Each limited liability company and each registered foreign limited liability company shall designate and maintain a registered agent and registered office in this state. The designation of a registered agent is an affirmation of fact by the limited liability company or registered foreign limited liability company that the agent has consented to serve.
(1m) The registered office of a limited liability company or registered foreign limited liability company may, but need not, be the same as any of the company's places of business or activity. The registered office must be an actual physical location with a street address and not solely a post office box, mailbox service, or telephone answering service. Except as provided in s. 165.68 (5) (f) 1., the registered agent of a limited liability company or registered foreign limited liability company shall be any of the following:
(a) A natural person who resides in this state and whose business office is identical with the registered office.
(b) A domestic corporation, nonstock corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership, or limited liability partnership whose business office is identical with the registered office.
(c) A foreign corporation, nonstock corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership, or registered limited liability partnership if that entity is authorized to transact business in this state and the entity's business office is identical with the registered office.
(2) A registered agent for a limited liability company or registered foreign limited liability company must have an e-mail address and a place of business or activity in this state.
(3) The only duties under this chapter of a registered agent that has complied with this chapter are the following:
(a) To forward to the limited liability company or registered foreign limited liability company at the address most recently supplied to the agent by the company or foreign company any process, notice, or demand pertaining to the company or foreign company which is served on or received by the agent.
(b) If the registered agent resigns, to provide the notice required by s. 183.0117 (3) to the company or foreign company at the address most recently supplied to the agent by the company or foreign company.
(c) To keep current the information with respect to the agent in the articles of organization or foreign registration statement.
History: 2021 a. 258.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 183 - Uniform limited liability company law.
183.0105 - Operating agreement; scope, function, and limitations.
183.01075 - Required information.
183.0108 - Nature, purpose, and duration of limited liability company.
183.0111 - Supplemental principles of law.
183.0113 - Reservation of name.
183.0114 - Registration of name.
183.0115 - Registered agent and registered office.
183.0116 - Change of registered agent or registered office by limited liability company.
183.0117 - Resignation of registered agent.
183.0118 - Change of name or address by registered agent.
183.0119 - Service of process, notice, or demand.
183.0120 - Delivery of record.
183.0122 - Filing fees; certified copies.
183.0201 - Formation of limited liability company; articles of organization.
183.0202 - Amendment or restatement of articles of organization.
183.0203 - Signing of records to be delivered for filing to the department.
183.0204 - Signing and filing pursuant to judicial order.
183.0205 - Liability for inaccurate information in filed record.
183.0206 - Filing requirements.
183.0207 - Effective date and time.
183.0208 - Withdrawal of filed record before effectiveness.
183.0209 - Correcting filed record.
183.0210 - Duty of department to file; review of refusal to file; delivery of record by department.
183.0211 - Certificate of status.
183.0212 - Annual report for department.
183.0301 - No agency power of member as member.
183.0302 - Statement of authority.
183.0303 - Statement of denial.
183.0304 - Liability of members and managers.
183.0402 - Form of contribution.
183.0403 - Liability for contributions.
183.0404 - Sharing of and right to distributions before dissolution.
183.0405 - Limitations on distributions.
183.0406 - Liability for improper distributions.
183.0407 - Management of limited liability company.
183.0408 - Reimbursement; indemnification; advancement; and insurance.
183.0409 - Standards of conduct for members and managers.
183.0410 - Rights to information of member, manager, and person dissociated as member.
183.0501 - Nature of transferable interest.
183.0502 - Transfer of transferable interest.
183.0504 - Power of legal representative of deceased member.
183.0601 - Power to dissociate as member; wrongful dissociation.
183.0602 - Events causing dissociation.
183.0603 - Effect of dissociation.
183.0701 - Events causing dissolution.
183.0703 - Rescinding dissolution.
183.0704 - Known claims against dissolved limited liability company.
183.0705 - Other claims against dissolved limited liability company.
183.0707 - Disposition of assets in winding up.
183.0708 - Administrative dissolution.
183.0710 - Appeal from denial of reinstatement.
183.0801 - Direct action by member.
183.0805 - Special litigation committee.
183.0806 - Proceeds and expenses.
183.0902 - Registration to do business in this state.
183.0903 - Foreign registration statement.
183.0904 - Amendment or cancellation of foreign registration statement.
183.0905 - Activities not constituting doing business.
183.0906 - Noncomplying name of foreign limited liability company.
183.0909 - Transfer of registration.
183.09101 - Grounds for termination.
183.09102 - Procedure for and effect of termination.
183.09103 - Appeal from termination.
183.0911 - Withdrawal of registration of registered foreign limited liability company.
183.0912 - Action by attorney general.
183.1002 - Relationship of this subchapter to other laws.
183.1005 - Reference to external facts.
183.1023 - Approval of merger; amendment; abandonment.
183.1024 - Filings required for merger; effective date.
183.1031 - Interest exchange authorized.
183.1032 - Plan of interest exchange.
183.1033 - Approval of interest exchange; amendment; abandonment.
183.1034 - Filings required for interest exchange; effective date.
183.1035 - Effect of interest exchange.
183.1041 - Conversion authorized.
183.1042 - Plan of conversion.
183.1043 - Approval of conversion; amendment; abandonment.
183.1044 - Filings required for conversion; effective date.
183.1045 - Effect of conversion.
183.1051 - Domestication authorized.
183.1052 - Plan of domestication.
183.1053 - Approval of domestication; amendment; abandonment.
183.1054 - Filings required for domestication; effective date.
183.1055 - Effect of domestication.
183.1061 - Restrictions on approval of mergers, interest exchanges, conversions, and domestications.
183.1101 - Uniformity of application and construction.
183.1102 - Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.