Register Your Texas LLC in Ohio

Not sure which service fits? Our full Northwest Registered Agent review and Harbor Compliance review cover pricing, renewal terms, and where each one fits.

Ohio carves 11 activities out by statute. On their own, none of them requires a foreign LLC to register.

• Maintaining, defending, or settling in its own behalf any proceeding or dispute
• Holding meetings or carrying on any other activities concerning its internal affairs
• Maintaining accounts in financial institutions
• Maintaining offices or agencies for the assignment, exchange, and registration of the company's own securities or interests, or maintaining trustees or depositories for them
• Selling through independent contractors
• Soliciting or obtaining orders, by mail or electronic means or through employees or agents, if the orders require acceptance outside Ohio before they become contracts
• Creating, as borrower or lender, or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages, or security interests in real or personal property
• Securing or collecting debts in its own behalf, enforcing mortgages or security interests securing those debts, and holding, protecting, and maintaining property so acquired
• Owning real or personal property
• Conducting an isolated transaction that is not one in the course of repeated transactions of a like nature
• Transacting business in interstate commerce

Under R.C. Section 1706.512. Ohio puts NO time limit on the isolated-transaction carve-out. Subsection (B) adds status-based exclusions for controlling interests, limited partner status and LLC membership. Subsection (C) disclaims service of process, taxation and regulation under other Ohio law.

• https://www.ohiosos.gov/businesses/