LLC reinstatement · Utah

How to Reinstate a Utah LLC

The short answer. If your Utah LLC has been administratively dissolved, you restore it by filing an application for reinstatement with the Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code. Utah sets no deadline: an LLC that has been administratively dissolved can apply for reinstatement at any time. The reinstatement fee is $54.

Utah LLC Reinstatement at a Glance

What Utah calls the statusAdministratively dissolved
What you fileApplication for Reinstatement
Filed withUtah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code
How to fileNot confirmed
Reinstatement fee$54
Time limit to reinstateNo deadline
Tax clearanceNot confirmed
RetroactiveYes (see What reinstatement does)

Read from the government sources listed at the foot of this page, last checked September 30, 2026. See the sources.

Why Utah Would Dissolve an LLC

The Division may dissolve an LLC that does not pay a fee, tax, interest or penalty the Division requires within six months after the day the Division requires payment, or does not deliver its annual report within 60 days after it is due. It may also dissolve an LLC that has no registered agent in Utah for 60 consecutive calendar days.

The LLC has 60 days to fix the problem before it can be administratively dissolved. The 60 days are counted after the Division serves the LLC with notice of its determination that a ground for dissolution exists.

How Long You Have to Reinstate

Utah sets no deadline: an LLC that has been administratively dissolved can apply for reinstatement at any time.

How to File

You file an application for reinstatement with the Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code. Go to Utah's filing page.

What It Costs

The reinstatement fee is $54.

The application must state that the LLC has paid all fees and penalties imposed under Utah's business entity law or other state law, and that it has paid any tax, fee or penalty it owes the State Tax Commission or is current on a payment plan for it. The Division's fee schedule adds $18 for each year the annual renewal was missed, plus a $10 delinquency fee.

We have not confirmed whether Utah requires a tax clearance to reinstate; check with the Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code.

Registered Agent Options

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

Registered agent services for Utah LLCs

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What Reinstatement Does

Under Utah's law, a reinstated LLC continues as if it had never been administratively dissolved. The rights of a person arising from an act or omission in reliance on the dissolution, before the person knew or had notice of the reinstatement, are not affected.

The LLC keeps its name, and any D.B.A., for five years after the dissolution takes effect. After that it can reinstate under its old name only if the name is still available, or it must state a different name.

Worth Knowing in Utah

These rules come from a Utah law in effect from October 1, 2026. As enacted, the new reinstatement section lists only corporation chapters among the conditions for the Division to reinstate; confirm with the Division that it is processing LLC reinstatements before relying on a date.

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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 Utah 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.