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How to Reinstate an Administratively Dissolved LLC in Georgia
The form, the fee, and the five-year deadline that ends the option entirely.
Administrative dissolution
If your Georgia LLC was administratively dissolved, the state ended its ability to do business but did not end the company. Here is what it costs to bring it back, how long you have, and what the LLC can and cannot do in the meantime.
What the state doesAdministrative dissolutionGeorgia Secretary of State, Corporations Division
Deadline to fix5 yearsHard cutoff
Filing fee$260eCorp
What you fileApplication for Reinstatement
How to reinstate a Georgia LLC
- Check the entity’s current status first. Search your LLC on the Georgia SOS business database and read the exact status word the state shows. That word decides which filing you need, and filing the wrong one is a rejected filing and a lost fee.
- Confirm you are still inside the deadline. Must apply within five years after the effective date of dissolution. Hard cutoff. After it, reinstatement is unavailable and the remedy is forming a new entity, which is a new legal person with no relation back and no continuity of contracts or licences.
- Fix the thing that caused it. The $260 reinstatement fee is separate and includes no annual registration. The application must state that the grounds for dissolution have been eliminated, which for a missed Annual Registration means bringing it current at $60 per year ($50 filing fee plus $10 service charge). The late penalty is $25. How many years are collected, and whether the $25 is charged once or per delinquent year, is not published. The application is not accepted until the underlying default is cleared.
- File Application for Reinstatement. The filing fee is $260. It is filed through eCorp.
- Check that your name is still available. O.C.G.A. 14-11-603(b)(6) reserves the name for the LLC’s specific use for five years after dissolution, or until reinstatement, whichever is sooner. Within that window the name is blocked in eCorp. If the LLC does not reinstate within five years, another entity may reserve or file under the name.
- Verify it on the state record, not in your inbox. Search the entity again on the Georgia SOS business database and confirm the status has changed. A confirmation email is not the record. While you are there, check that the address and the agent on file are ones you actually monitor, because that is where the next notice goes.
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Before you file anything
Only domestic entities reinstate. A foreign LLC whose authority was revoked must re-qualify with a new Application for Certificate of Authority instead.
How it happened, and what the state did
Georgia Secretary of State, Corporations Division
What triggers it
Annual Registration, with all required fees and penalties, not delivered within 60 days after it is due. Also: no registered agent or registered office for 60 days or more; failure to notify of an agent or office change within 60 days; a dishonoured payment not cured within 60 days.
The state warns you first
The warning is the Notice of Administrative Dissolution. You have 60 days from that notice to fix the default. First-class mail to the last known address of the principal office, or to the registered agent. Not certified, no personal service.
No separate tax clearance
None. O.C.G.A. 14-11-603(b)(4)(D) requires only a statement by the LLC that all taxes owed have been paid. The Department of Revenue issues nothing and charges nothing.
Statute, portal and processing time
- Statute
- O.C.G.A. section 14-11-603(b)(1)
- Filed through
- eCorp
- Online filing
- Yes
- Processing time
- 7 to 14 business days online, 15 to 21 business days by paper. Two SOS pages give slightly different figures.
- Expedited service
- $120 for 2 business days; $275 same business day if received by noon; $1,200 one-hour service.
What else you have to pay
The $260 reinstatement fee is separate and includes no annual registration. The application must state that the grounds for dissolution have been eliminated, which for a missed Annual Registration means bringing it current at $60 per year ($50 filing fee plus $10 service charge). The late penalty is $25. How many years are collected, and whether the $25 is charged once or per delinquent year, is not published.
What the LLC can and cannot do while it is dissolved
- Continues its existence but may not carry on any business except what is necessary to wind up and liquidate.
- May run the known-claims and unknown-claims procedures under 14-11-607 and 14-11-608.
- Administrative dissolution does not terminate the authority of the registered agent, so the LLC remains servable.
Does fixing it undo the gap?
Yes, with limits. Reinstatement relates back to and takes effect as of the effective date of the administrative dissolution, and the LLC resumes carrying on its business as if the dissolution had never occurred.
Can someone take your LLC name?
O.C.G.A. 14-11-603(b)(6) reserves the name for the LLC’s specific use for five years after dissolution, or until reinstatement, whichever is sooner. Within that window the name is blocked in eCorp. If the LLC does not reinstate within five years, another entity may reserve or file under the name.
What we could not establish
These are the things Georgia does not publish, or publishes in a form we could not verify against a primary source. They are listed rather than left out, because a gap you can see is more useful than a page that looks complete.
- how many years of back Annual Registrations are collected at reinstatement, and whether the $25 late penalty stacks per year
- real-world lag between the ground arising and the SOS mailing notice, so no month is published
- whether a dissolved GA LLC may bring an affirmative suit unrelated to winding up: 14-11-604 has no prosecute-and-defend clause
- What happens if your name is unavailable at reinstatement. Georgia publishes no procedure for it.
Statutory citations
What triggers it
O.C.G.A. section 14-11-603(b)(1)
How the state warns you
O.C.G.A. 14-11-603(b)(2)
Tax clearance
O.C.G.A. 14-11-603(b)(4)(D)
Deadline to fix it
O.C.G.A. 14-11-603(b)(4)
What the LLC can and cannot do while it is dissolved
O.C.G.A. 14-11-603(b)(3)
Whether fixing it undoes the gap
O.C.G.A. 14-11-603(b)(4)
The entity name
O.C.G.A. 14-11-603(b)(6)
Sources
Last verified Aug 3, 2026. Every figure on this page comes from a state statute, rule, form or fee schedule.
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This page provides general information based on publicly available Georgia statutes and Georgia Secretary of State publications. It is not legal advice and is not a substitute for advice from a licensed attorney about a specific situation. Statutes, forms, and fees change. Verify current requirements with the Georgia SOS before filing. If you are facing enforcement action or a pending lawsuit, consult a Georgia business attorney.