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Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 5.202 (2026)

Change By Entity To Registered Office Or Registered Agent

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Sec. 5.202. CHANGE BY ENTITY TO REGISTERED OFFICE OR REGISTERED AGENT. (a) A filing entity or foreign filing entity may change its registered office, its registered agent, or both by filing a statement of the change in accordance with Chapter 4.

(b) The statement must contain:

(1) the name of the entity;

(2) the name of the entity's registered agent;

(3) the street address of the entity's registered agent;

(4) if the change relates to the registered agent, the name of the entity's new registered agent;

(5) if the change relates to the registered office, the street address of the entity's new registered office;

(6) a recitation that the change specified in the statement is authorized by the entity; and

(7) a recitation that the street address of the registered office and the street address of the registered agent's business are the same.

(c) On acceptance of the statement by the filing officer, the statement is effective as an amendment to the appropriate provision of:

(1) the filing entity's certificate of formation; or

(2) the foreign filing entity's registration.

Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 182, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 2010–2021 · leading case: Texas Underground v. Sw. Bell Tel., No. 01-19-00814-CV (Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] Aug. 3, 2021).
Acadian Props. Austin, LLC v. Kjmonte Investments, LLC, 650 S.W.3d 98 (Tex. App.—El Paso 2021). “TEX.BUS.ORGS.CODE ANN. § 5.202(a) (a filing entity or foreign filing entity may change its registered office, its registered agent, or both by filing a statement of the change); TEX.”
Texas Underground v. Sw. Bell Tel., No. 01-19-00814-CV (Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] Aug. 3, 2021). “See generally TEX. BUS. ORGS. CODE ANN. §§ 5.202–.204; see also Catalyst Partners, 2011 WL 2306836 , at *1 n.”
ID/Guerra LP v. Texas Workforce Comm'n, No. 03-09-00263-CV (Tex. App.—Austin July 29, 2010). “7 Now found at Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code Ann. § 5.202 (West Pamph.”
Catalyst Partners, Inc. v. BASF Corp., No. 02-10-00377-CV (Tex. App.—Fort Worth June 9, 2011). “sted to Catalyst Partners’ Agent, Landy Moran, 16203 Part Row, Suite 100, Houston, Texas 77084; and that process was returned on March 2, 2010, bearing the notation “Attempted-Not 2 Catalyst Partners also complains that BASF asked the Secretary of State to serve Catalyst…”
Catalyst Partners, Inc. v. BASF Corp., No. 02-10-00377-CV (Tex. App.—Fort Worth June 9, 2011). “See Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code Ann. § 5.202 (West 2010).”
Coastal Motorcars, Ltd. v. Mary Lou Brown, No. 13-14-00560-CV (Tex. App.—Corpus Christi Mar. 16, 2015). “18 TEX. BUS. ORG. CODE §5.201 ..............”
Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 5.202(a): 1 case
Acadian Props. Austin, LLC v. Kjmonte Investments, LLC, 650 S.W.3d 98 (Tex. App.—El Paso 2021). “TEX.BUS.ORGS.CODE ANN. § 5.202(a) (a filing entity or foreign filing entity may change its registered office, its registered agent, or both by filing a statement of the change); TEX.”
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