LLC reinstatement · Kansas

How to Reinstate a Kansas LLC

The short answer. If your Kansas LLC has been forfeited, you restore it by filing a certificate of reinstatement with the Kansas Secretary of State. We have not confirmed whether Kansas sets a deadline for reinstatement, so do not assume there is time to wait; check with the Kansas Secretary of State as soon as you can. The reinstatement fee is $35.

Kansas LLC Reinstatement at a Glance

What Kansas calls the statusForfeited
What you fileCertificate of Reinstatement
Filed withKansas Secretary of State
How to fileNot confirmed
Reinstatement fee$35
Time limit to reinstateNot confirmed
Tax clearanceNot confirmed
RetroactiveYes

Read from the government sources listed at the foot of this page, last checked September 29, 2026. See the sources.

Why Kansas Would Forfeit an LLC

Kansas forfeits an LLC's articles of organization when its business entity information report or fee is more than 90 days late. The Secretary of State may also declare the articles forfeited when the LLC fails to designate a new resident agent after its agent dies, moves or resigns.

An LLC forfeits if its information report and fee are not filed within 90 days after the due date, and the Secretary of State mails a warning within 60 days after that due date. For a missing resident agent, the Secretary of State may declare forfeiture after giving 30 days notice.

How Long You Have to Reinstate

We have not confirmed whether Kansas sets a deadline for reinstatement, so do not assume there is time to wait; check with the Kansas Secretary of State as soon as you can.

How to File

You file a certificate of reinstatement with the Kansas Secretary of State. Go to Kansas's filing page.

What It Costs

The reinstatement fee is $35.

Every business entity information report missed in the last 10 years must be filed with the certificate, with its report fee, plus all other fees and penalties due to the Secretary of State.

We have not confirmed whether Kansas requires a tax clearance to reinstate; check with the Kansas Secretary of State.

Registered Agent Options

If your LLC's registered agent has changed, resigned or lapsed, ask the filing office named above whether Kansaswants that updated as part of reinstatement. You do not have to buy a service for it: in most states the LLC's owner, or another individual who qualifies, may serve as its registered agent themselves, generally subject to that state's rules on keeping a street address in the state and being available there during normal business hours. A paid service is one option and not the only one. The Kansas registered agent requirements set out what Kansas itself asks.

Registered agent services for Kansas LLCs

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  • ZenBusiness$199/yr renewal

    Best for: First-time founders forming a new LLC who want phone, email and chat support

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What Reinstatement Does

Under Kansas's law, a reinstated LLC continues as if it had never been forfeited.

If another business has taken the LLC's name in the meantime, the LLC needs a name that is still available to reinstate.

Worth Knowing in Kansas

The Secretary of State adds an $85 penalty fee when the forfeiture was for an unfiled information report, and each missing report carries its own report fee.

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Frequently Asked Questions

This guide is general information, not legal or tax advice, and reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship. It reports what each state's law and filing office say about bringing back an LLC the state has dissolved, with the sources this page cites. It cannot tell you where your own LLC stands: that turns on why and when it was dissolved, what it still owes, and whether anyone has since taken its name, and fees and deadlines change between our reviews. Confirm your LLC's status and the current requirements with the filing office or tax agency named on this page, and ask a lawyer about anything the LLC did while it was dissolved. In many states a missed deadline ends the right to reinstate, so do not wait.

Related guides

LLC late fees by stateWhat a late annual report costs before it comes to dissolution →Annual report complianceDeadlines and fees for all 50 states, so it does not happen again →Annual report deadline finderEnter your formation date for your next due date →Certificate of good standingProve the LLC is active again once it is reinstated →Dissolving an LLCIf you would rather close the LLC properly than bring it back →
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Sources

Each entry below is a document recorded in our verified Kansas sources, and each entry says what the document is. Some statutory text is read from an accurate mirror rather than from the state's own host, and those say so.

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Edmond Hui

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.