Arizona LLC Publication Requirement
Arizona gives you 60 days to publish notice of your new LLC, and in the two largest counties the Corporation Commission does it for you at no charge. Whether you owe a newspaper anything comes down to the county your statutory agent sits in.
By Edmond Hui · Statute verified September 1, 2026
The requirement at a glance
| How long the notice runs | Three consecutive publications |
|---|---|
| Deadline | 60 days after the Commission files your articles of organization |
| Who picks the newspaper | You choose, from newspapers of general circulation in the county of your statutory agent's street address |
| Filing that follows | Affidavit of publication, optional |
| What the state charges for that filing | None published |
| Newspaper charge | No official source publishes a rate. The newspaper sets it. |
| If you publish late | Nothing. Arizona sets out no way to fix a late notice, and because the affidavit is optional there is no filing that closes the process out |
| Out-of-state LLCs | No. The duty attaches to the articles of organization a new Arizona LLC files, and a company formed elsewhere never files those |
The state fee row is what the state charges for the filing that follows publication. It is not what publishing costs. Where the newspaper charge reads that no rate is published, it means no official source states one. It does not mean the notice is free.
In Maricopa and Pima counties you publish nothing
If your statutory agent's street address is in a county of more than 800,000 people, the Corporation Commission enters the information in its own database and cannot charge you for it. Only Maricopa and Pima are currently over that line, which covers Phoenix and Tucson. Everyone else buys a newspaper notice.
This is the state doing the notice for you, not letting you off it. One of the two things has to happen. If your statutory agent's address later moves to a smaller county, the newspaper route applies to you.
Watch what the test actually looks at. For an LLC it is the county of thestatutory agent's street address, not where you work. There is a separate test based on where the business itself sits, and that one is for corporations. Advice that mixes the two gives the wrong answer whenever your agent is in a different county, which is common if you use a commercial agent.
If you do owe the notice, wait for the Commission before you publish. Its instructions tell filers not to publish until the articles are approved, and the approval letter explains how. Publishing early risks paying for a notice that does not match what was filed.
Maricopa and Pima are Arizona's largest counties by a wide margin, so for most filers publication costs nothing and takes no action at all. That is also why so many guides describe the requirement as repealed.
It was not repealed in 2023
Arizona still requires the notice. We read the Legislature's own current text on 1 September 2026 and the publication rule is intact. It was carried into the current law by a 2018 act that took effect in September 2019, the older chapter it replaced stopped applying in September 2020, and nothing passed in 2023 touched it.
When a source says Arizona no longer requires notice, it is almost always describing the Maricopa and Pima database route rather than a repeal. We have found the claim and the full procedure sitting two paragraphs apart in the same article.
One limit, and it is the Legislature's own. The published statutes run current through the 2025 session, so a 2026 amendment would not appear in them yet, and a bill's title need not name every section it changes. If you are relying on this for a filing, check the current session.
What the newspaper will charge
Arizona publishes no total and nobody can quote you one from a state source. The law caps what a paper may charge per column inch for each insertion, at that paper's own published rate. Your bill is that rate times the space your notice takes times three insertions, and the space depends on how much the notice has to say. There is one indirect control: the type cannot be bigger than the paper's normal body type, so a paper cannot pad the space by setting your notice large. Any range you see quoted is a service's own pricing.
The affidavit is optional and unpriced. You may file one, and the Commission's FAQ says many people do even though it is not required. It appears on no Commission fee schedule, so in practice there is nothing to pay the state for it. We record that as no published fee rather than as free, because no Commission document actually states a zero.
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Sources and legal references
These are the state laws and filing office documents behind this page. The statute numbers live here rather than in the text above, so you can check a claim without reading around citations. They are primary sources, not secondary summaries.
This guide is general information, not legal advice, and reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship. It reports what state statutes and filing offices say, and the sources are listed above. It cannot tell you what applies to your company: whether you publish at all can turn on the county your office or statutory agent sits in, what it costs is set by newspapers rather than by the state, and what happens if a deadline was missed depends on your own filing dates and on what you have filed since. If you have missed a publication deadline, or you are deciding whether to bring a claim before publishing, speak to an attorney licensed in your state before you rely on anything here.
Edmond Hui · Founder, MyStateLLC
Edmond Hui is a software engineer and serial entrepreneur based in New York who has founded multiple online businesses across e-commerce, media, and information publishing. Before transitioning into tech, he spent years as a commercial real estate professional closing deals totaling over 100,000 square feet, giving him firsthand experience with business formation and entity structuring. He built MyStateLLC to provide the free, state-specific LLC guidance he wished existed when forming his own companies.