The Alaska LLC certificate of registration, Form 08-0497

The legal name has to end in "Limited Liability Company", "L.L.C." or "LLC" ("Limited" may be "Ltd." and "Company" may be "Co."). When Alaska cannot register the home-state name, because another entity holds it or because it lacks the ending, Part III supplies an assumed name that does. The statute is blunt about the consequence of later changes: a registered foreign LLC that takes a new name Alaska cannot register stands suspended until it picks one that is available (AS 10.50.623).

The agent is a corporation (not an LLC, LP or LLP) or an individual with a physical location in Alaska; physical and mailing addresses in Alaska are both mandatory. The principal office goes in Part VIII with street and mailing addresses. Part IX records whether members or managers manage. Part X lists at least one member, and every member owning 5 percent or more, each with a percentage owned; managers listed if manager-managed (AS 10.50.615(a)(7)-(8)).

Online filing posts the registration the moment payment clears, using a myAlaska account. On paper, mail the form, the certificate and payment to PO Box 110806, Juneau, AK 99811; the form says to allow up to 3 weeks from the date received, longer between October and February. Filing both ways duplicates payment and slows the file down.

If you have seen the corporation application, the LLC form will seem short. The LLC statute asks for nine things, and the form has no share structure, no officers' signatures and no alien-affiliate item. What it adds is the management choice, the member list with percentages and the attestation of good standing. The fee is the same $350 as the corporation's.