LLC reinstatement · New York

How to Reinstate a New York LLC

The short answer. If your New York LLC has been suspended, you restore it by filing a certificate of publication with the New York Department of State, Division of Corporations. New York sets no deadline: an LLC that has been suspended can apply for reinstatement at any time. The reinstatement fee is $50.

New York LLC Reinstatement at a Glance

What New York calls the statusSuspended
What you fileCertificate of Publication
Filed withNew York Department of State, Division of Corporations
How to fileNot confirmed
Reinstatement fee$50
Time limit to reinstateNo deadline
Tax clearanceNot confirmed
RetroactiveDepends (see What reinstatement does)

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

Why New York Would Suspend an LLC

New York suspends an LLC's authority to do business when proof of its newspaper publication is not filed within 120 days after formation, or when the party at its address for process resigns and the LLC does not designate a new address.

The publication suspension takes effect automatically at the end of the 120 days after formation if proof of publication has not been filed.

How Long You Have to Reinstate

New York sets no deadline: an LLC that has been suspended can apply for reinstatement at any time.

How to File

You file a certificate of publication with the New York Department of State, Division of Corporations. Go to New York's filing page.

What It Costs

The reinstatement fee is $50.

Before filing, the LLC must publish notice in newspapers as New York's LLC law requires and attach the newspapers' affidavits of publication. The $50 is the Department of State's fee only, and the newspapers charge separately.

We have not confirmed whether New York requires a tax clearance to reinstate; check with the New York Department of State, Division of Corporations.

Registered Agent Options

If your LLC's registered agent has changed, resigned or lapsed, ask the filing office named above whether New Yorkwants 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 New York registered agent requirements set out what New York itself asks.

Registered agent services for New York LLCs

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What Reinstatement Does

A publication suspension ends when proof of publication is filed, and the statute says the suspension never impaired the LLC's contracts or made its members, managers or agents liable for its obligations. A suspension after a process address resignation ends with the new address, and the LLC's authority is restored and continued as if no suspension had occurred.

Worth Knowing in New York

A New York LLC that misses its biennial statement is shown as past due, and a suspended LLC continues to exist. If the suspension came from a resigned address for process, the cure is a certificate of change or amendment designating a new address. New York's LLC Transparency Act also suspends a company that fails to file a required beneficial ownership disclosure or attestation of exemption; whether your LLC must file depends on federal definitions that currently exclude most U.S.-formed companies, so confirm with the Department of State.

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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.

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Sources

Each entry below is a document recorded in our verified New York 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. Where we hold the citation but no stable public link, the citation is printed on its own rather than pointed at a guessed address.

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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.