Pennsylvania LLC Formation
An LLC is formed by filing Articles of Organization—the LLC’s formation documents—with
the Corporations Bureau of the Secretary of State.
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Steps to forming a Pennsylvania Limited Liability Company
The formation document of a Pennsylvania LLC is called the Articles of Organization.
Specific information about your business is required.
At a minimum, the following sections must be included in your Articles of Organization
for your Pennsylvania LLC:
- Name: You’ll need to provide the name of your Pennsylvania LLC, along with “company,”
“limited,” “limited liability company,” or an abbreviation of one of the above.
This name must be distinguishable from any other corporate name on file. To avoid
a potential rejection for this reason, ClickandInc.com can perform a
business name search for you.
- Registered Agent: Your registered agent will be either an individual living in Pennsylvania
or a company with an office in Pennsylvania—a name and address of where the state
can direct things like correspondence and service of process. You cannot provide
a PO Box.
- Organizer: The person who drafted the form should provide his or her name and address.
- Additional Information: There are a few default articles included in the document
that should be struck if inapplicable, such as “management of the company is vested
in a manager or managers” (in which case, if your LLC is member-managed, you would
strike this). If there are articles not included in the form that you wish to insert,
you may add them on another piece of paper.
- Execution: The person listed as Organizer should sign in this space. The organizer
does not have to be a member of the LLC.
If you change addresses, registered agent, or anything else that was laid out in
the Articles, you will need to submit an amendment to those Articles so that the
state has current information on your company at all times.
Pennsylvania Startup Quicklinks
For information on other types of businesses in Pennsylvania, please explore the
links below.
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