Nevada's statutes answer the price. The Secretary of State has to answer everything else.

The Bottom Line for Nevada LLCs

The Nevada Legislature prices this certificate in statute, from two directions that agree, so the figure above rests on primary law. How the Secretary of State takes the order, how long the office needs and what it wants current beforehand are open questions on this page.

Everything here came from the Legislature's statute site. Nothing came from the Secretary of State, whose web estate returned a security interstitial to every attempt, including the published fee schedule and the entity search. The gap matters in a specific way rather than a general one: a legislature sets a ceiling and an agency sets a practice, and an agency can require something the statute never mentions. Treat the statutory figures as the floor of your research and confirm the rest with the office before you plan a deadline around them.

What Nevada Actually Calls It

We could not confirm what Nevada calls this document, so this page uses the generic term.

Why You Need One

Nevada LLCs are often owned by people who trade somewhere else, which makes registering the company in the state where the work actually happens the usual reason this document gets requested. Banks and lenders ask too, particularly where the account is opened outside Nevada and the bank wants to see the entity is real and current at home. Diligence in a sale, a franchisor or licensor checking its counterparty, and occasionally a landlord account for the rest. Holding one in reserve achieves little, because the value of the document is concentrated in its issue date.

What It Costs in Nevada

Nevada charges $50 for the certificate of good standing. A certificate of existence which lists the previous records relating to the entity costs $50.

Where this fee comes from: NRS 86.561: "The Secretary of State shall charge and collect for: ... (h) Signing, filing or certifying any other record, $50". NRS 78.785(5), applied to LLCs by NRS 86.561(3): "The fee for signing a certificate of corporate existence which does not list the previous records relating to the corporation, or a certificate of change in a corporate name, is $50."

How to Order It

We could not confirm how Nevada takes orders for the certificate of good standing.

We could not confirm whether Nevada publishes a turnaround time for the certificate of good standing.

Two things are worth knowing before you contact the office. First, the speed tiers in Nevada law are ceilings rather than prices: the statute permits the Secretary of State to charge a reasonable fee up to the stated amount for service inside a given window, so what the office actually bills for a rush can sit below the statutory line, and the tiers above should be read as upper bounds. Second, the naming. The wording Nevada's corporate chapter uses for this document is not repeated in the limited liability company chapter, so searching the office's site with corporate phrasing can land you on the wrong form. One phrase in the LLC chapter is a genuine decoy, because it concerns a foreign company's canceled check for its annual list standing in as evidence of authority, which is not what a bank means. Describe what you want by what it must show, a statement of your LLC's current status on the office's records, and let the staff supply the name.

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   Ask the requester what the document has to show

   A bank usually wants current status and nothing more. Nevada also issues a version carrying the entity's prior records, which suits a diligence request. Settling this before you call saves a second order.

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   Take the exact name and file number from the record

   Read both off the formation paperwork or the office's entity search rather than from memory. A registered name that differs by a suffix from what you supply is the usual reason an order comes back unusable.

3. 3

   Confirm the current charge and the channel with Commercial Recordings

   This page could not read the office's own schedule, so the statutory figure is a starting point rather than the final bill. Ask about a portal or handling charge in the same conversation.

4. 4

   Bring the annual list current if it is overdue

   The statutes put a company that misses the list into default and start a clock that ends in revocation of the charter. Default is not a strong position from which to ask a filing office for anything.

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   Ask what routine handling takes before paying for speed

   The rush tiers in Nevada law are maximums the office may charge, not a menu it must offer at that price. If ordinary handling already fits your deadline, a rush fee buys you nothing.

What Puts You Out of Standing in Nevada

We could not confirm what Nevada requires to be current before it will issue the certificate of good standing.

The statutes describe how a Nevada LLC goes into default and what follows. Missing the annual list puts the company in default, adds a penalty, and the charter is revoked on the first anniversary of the month following the month in which the filing was due. What the chapters read for this page never do is connect that state of affairs to certificate issuance, in either direction. So the honest answer is that a company in default may or may not be able to buy a certificate in Nevada, and the office is the only party that can settle it. If your annual list is overdue, the sequence that works everywhere applies here as well: bring the list current, pay what is owed, then order.

How Long It Stays Good in Nevada

Nevada publishes nothing about how long the certificate of good standing stays current. Whoever asked you for it does: banks, lenders and other states' filing offices each set their own recency rule, and that window is theirs, not Nevada's. Ask what it is, and order the certificate once you know.

Order close to the date somebody needs it. The certificate carries an issue date, and the window it has to fall inside belongs to whoever asked for it rather than to Nevada. Because routine handling time could not be established on this page, leave more room than you would in a state that publishes one, and ask what an ordinary order takes at the moment you place it. If the answer runs past your deadline, the statute's speed tiers are the lever, and their current price is the question to ask in the same breath.

What We Could Not Confirm for Nevada

These pages only state what a primary source establishes. For Nevada we could not confirm the following, so this page does not answer it:

• what the state calls the document
• which ordering channels the state offers
• how long the state takes to issue it
• what must be current before the state will issue it
• whether the state will apostille it for use abroad

Who to Ask in Nevada

The Commercial Recordings Division of the Nevada Secretary of State in Carson City files annual lists and issues certificates about the entities on its records, and it is the office to call with the two questions this page leaves open: what the current charge is and how an order is placed. Ask both in one call, because the answer to the second often changes the answer to the first. The Nevada Department of Taxation is a different agency and handles state tax accounts; a question about tax standing goes there, and a filing office certificate is not an answer to it.

Sources

• leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-086.html
• leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-078.html
• leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-225.html

Every figure on this page was read from a Nevada government source, not from a formation service. Confidence in this record: low. See our editorial policy for how these are verified and corrected.