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How to Reinstate an Administratively Dissolved LLC in Florida
The form, the fee, and what the LLC can and cannot do until it is filed.
Administrative dissolution
If your Florida 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 dissolutionFlorida Department of State, Division of Corporations
Deadline to fixNo deadline
Filing fee$100sunbiz.org
What you fileReinstatement Application
How to reinstate a Florida LLC
- Check the entity’s current status first. Search your LLC on the Florida 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. May apply at any time after the effective date of dissolution.
- Fix the thing that caused it. Reinstatement fee plus the annual report fee for each report year. Reinstating in the same calendar year as dissolution: $100 + $138.75 = $238.75. Reinstating on or after January 1 of the following year: $100 + $277.50 = $377.50. Add $5 for an optional certificate of status. The state states these as minimum amounts due and Fla. Stat. 605.0715(1) requires all fees and penalties then owed. The application is not accepted until the underlying default is cleared.
- File Reinstatement Application. The filing fee is $100. It is filed through sunbiz.org.
- Check that your name is still available. Fla. Stat. 605.0715(5) holds the name for one year. If another entity lawfully took it, 605.0715(6) requires the LLC to amend its articles to change its name before the reinstatement application is accepted.
- Verify it on the state record, not in your inbox. Search the entity again on the Florida 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.
Two ways to stop this happening twice, and they are different products. If the problem is that you forget the date, an agent who sends reminders is enough, and filing it yourself costs $138.75 a year to the state. If the problem is that the reminder arrived and you still did not file, you need the filing itself handed over. Paying for the first when you needed the second is how this happens a second time. Compare what the major services charge before you pick one.
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How it happened, and what the state did
Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations
What triggers it
Annual report not delivered by 5:00 p.m. ET on the third Friday in September. Also: unpaid fee or penalty, failure to appoint and maintain a registered agent, or failure to file a statement of change within 30 days of an agent name or address change.
You may get no warning
For the missed annual report there is no notice of intent before dissolution; notice is issued AFTER dissolution and may be by email. The other three grounds do get a notice of intent with 60 days to cure, Fla. Stat. 605.0714(3)-(4).
Statute, portal and processing time
- Statute
- Fla. Stat. section 605.0714(1)
- Filed through
- sunbiz.org
- Online filing
- Yes
- Processing time
- Immediate if dissolved under one year and paid by card; 2-3 business days if dissolved over one year
- Expedited service
- Not published by the state
What else you have to pay
Reinstatement fee plus the annual report fee for each report year. Reinstating in the same calendar year as dissolution: $100 + $138.75 = $238.75. Reinstating on or after January 1 of the following year: $100 + $277.50 = $377.50. Add $5 for an optional certificate of status. The state states these as minimum amounts due and Fla. Stat. 605.0715(1) requires all fees and penalties then owed.
What each path costs in Florida
File the report late, before the cutoffThe report fee plus the late fee. The LLC stays active the whole time.
$538.75
Let it be administratively dissolved, then restore it in the same yearThe filing fee for the cure plus the report fee. The late fee does not appear in the published totals for this filing.
$238.75
Read this as a cost comparison, not as a plan. The cheaper path is cheaper only in filing fees, and the filing fee is the smallest thing at stake. An LLC that has been administratively dissolved loses court access, loses its name after the hold period, and cannot trade normally until the filing is made. The next section sets out exactly what it can and cannot do.
What the LLC can and cannot do while it is dissolved
- Continues to exist but may only wind up, liquidate and notify claimants.
- May not maintain or defend any action in a Florida court until the annual report is filed and all fees and penalties are paid.
- Registered agent authority is not terminated, so service of process still lands.
Does fixing it undo the gap?
Yes, with limits. Relates back to the effective date of dissolution. But subsection (4)(c) preserves rights a person acquired in reliance on the dissolution before knowing of the reinstatement.
Can someone take your LLC name?
Fla. Stat. 605.0715(5) holds the name for one year. If another entity lawfully took it, 605.0715(6) requires the LLC to amend its articles to change its name before the reinstatement application is accepted.
What we could not establish
These are the things Florida 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.
- Whether members are personally liable for business carried on while the LLC was dissolved. Chapter 605 has no provision either way, so the answer would turn on case law.
- Which address the Division mails the dissolution notice to when it holds no email address for the LLC.
- How the $138.75 reinstatement charge breaks down against the $50 set by Fla. Stat. 605.0213.
Statutory citations
What triggers it
Fla. Stat. section 605.0714(1)
How the state warns you
Fla. Stat. 605.0714(2)
Fla. Stat. 605.0714(3)-(4)
Deadline to fix it
Fla. Stat. 605.0715(1)
What else you have to pay
Fla. Stat. 605.0715(1)
What the LLC can and cannot do while it is dissolved
Fla. Stat. 605.0714(5)
Fla. Stat. 605.0212(6)
Fla. Stat. 605.0714(6)
Whether fixing it undoes the gap
Fla. Stat. 605.0715(4)(a)
Fla. Stat. 605.0715(4)(c)
The entity name
Fla. Stat. 605.0715(5)
Fla. Stat. 605.0715(6)
What we could not establish
Fla. Stat. 605.0213
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 Florida statutes and Florida 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 Florida SOS before filing. If you are facing enforcement action or a pending lawsuit, consult a Florida business attorney.