Arizona Articles of Organization for an LLC

1. 1.1. Entity typeLimited liability company or professional limited liability company. Check one. A professional LLC is for licensed professions and has its own naming rules.
2. 2.2. Entity nameThe exact name, with Limited Liability Company, Limited Company, LLC, L.L.C., LC or L.C. A professional LLC uses Professional Limited Liability Company, PLLC, P.L.L.C., PLC or P.L.C. The name cannot contain association, corporation or incorporated, and banking words such as bank, trust or credit union need prior approval from the Department of Financial Institutions.
3. 3.3. Professional servicesOnly for a professional LLC: a short description of the professional services it will provide, such as law, accounting or medical.
4. 4.4.1 Statutory agent name and street addressAn individual who is a permanent, full-time Arizona resident, or an entity authorized to do business in Arizona, with a physical street address in Arizona (no PO box). The LLC cannot be its own statutory agent, but a member or manager can serve as an individual.
5. 5.4.2 Statutory agent mailing addressCan be a PO box, or the same as the street address. For an individual agent it must be in Arizona. Official notices from the Commission are mailed here, and the address is public on the internet.
6. 6.4.3 Statutory Agent AcceptanceThe agent must accept the appointment in writing, on form M002 filed with the articles or, for online filings, through the agent's Arizona Business Center dashboard. If no acceptance is in the Commission's system when the articles are examined, they are rejected.
7. 7.5. Principal addressEither the same as the statutory agent's street address, or a separate address, which can be outside Arizona. It is public on the internet.
8. 8.6 or 7. Management structureCheck manager-managed (6) or member-managed (7), not both. This choice decides which attachment goes with the articles.
9. 9.Member Structure Attachment (L041) or Manager Structure Attachment (L040)Member-managed: the name and address of every member. Manager-managed: the name and address of every manager, plus every member who owns 20% or more. These names and addresses become public. The articles are rejected without the attachment.
10. 10.Organizer signature, printed name and dateThe organizer signs under penalty of law that the information is true. Organizers can be individuals or entities and need not be members or managers, so a filing service can sign.

• The Commission approves the articles and sends an approval letter that includes publication instructions. Regular processing takes about 15 business days after the agent accepts; the Commission posts current processing times weekly.
• Arizona offers faster handling for a fee: $35 expedite (about 3 to 5 business days), $100 next-day, $200 same-day and $400 two-hour. The same-day and next-day clock does not start until the statutory agent has accepted the appointment.
• Within 60 days after the articles are filed, notice of the filing must be published. If the statutory agent's street address is in Maricopa or Pima County, the Commission posts the notice on its own website at no charge. Otherwise it must run in a newspaper of general circulation in that county for three consecutive publications, at the newspaper's rates. The Commission's instructions say not to publish until it has approved the articles. An affidavit of publication may be filed with the Commission.
• Arizona LLCs do not file annual reports. Under a May 2025 Commission policy, an LLC that has made no filings in the past two years receives a notice each January asking it to confirm it still exists; it must answer within 60 days or administrative dissolution begins.

More on filing in Arizona: Arizona LLC filing through eCorp.