Business search · Kentucky
Kentucky business search
The Kentucky Secretary of State, Business Filings keeps the official record of every company, LLC and corporation registered in Kentucky. Look one up by name and see status, entity type, formation date, officers and registered agent. Clerkfield reads the state's own search directly, each time you search, and every result shows the source and the date of the data.
What Kentucky's records include
The fields a Clerkfield result returns for Kentucky, taken from the state's own record.
- Organization number and legal name
- Company type, such as Kentucky Limited Liability Company
- Status and standing
- Organization or file date, and the date of the last annual report
- State where the company was formed
- Principal office address
- Registered agent with address
- Current officers with titles, and the officers at formation for the closest match
Not in Kentucky's free records
Nothing we know of: the free records carry every field listed here.
Types of business Kentucky registers
- Kentucky Corporation
- Kentucky Limited Liability Company
- Foreign Corporation
- Assumed Name Corporation
- Assumed Name for LLC
- General Partnership Assumed Name
What Kentucky's statuses mean
Kentucky uses its own words for a business's standing. Clerkfield keeps the state's wording in every result and marks each one active or inactive.
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
| A - Active | The company exists on the state's books. |
| I - Inactive | The company was dissolved, revoked or otherwise ended. |
| B - Bad | A standing, shown next to the status: the company is behind, most often on its annual report. |
How to search Kentucky records by hand
The state's own search is at sosbes.sos.ky.gov.
- Open the Secretary of State's business search at sosbes.sos.ky.gov.
- Search by business name or organization number (city and ZIP searches also exist).
- Pick the match and open its profile.
- Read Status and Standing, the last annual report date and the registered agent.
- Click Show Current Officers to list the officers on file.
Fees and how current the data is
Fees
Searching and opening a company profile are free. Annual reports cost $15.
How current it is
Live: Clerkfield reads the Secretary of State's search and company profile at the moment of each check.
Good to know about Kentucky records
01
Every Kentucky company files an annual report between January 1 and June 30. A Kentucky company that misses it is administratively dissolved; one from another state has its authority revoked.
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Assumed names show up in the same search with their own records, next to the companies that own them.
03
The state sells its full business records, officers included, for $2,000 a month; non-commercial users get them free.
Liens on Kentucky businesses
Clerkfield also searches Kentucky UCC filings, from the Kentucky Secretary of State, UCC (Fast Track UCC search).
Kentucky UCC search-
Yes. Searching and opening a company profile cost nothing, and the profile shows status, standing, the registered agent and the last annual report date.
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Status says whether the company exists (A - Active or I - Inactive). Standing says whether it is current with the state; B - Bad usually means a missed annual report. Clerkfield flags an active company in bad standing for review.
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Between January 1 and June 30 every year, with a $15 fee. A Kentucky company that misses the deadline is dissolved by the state and shows as inactive in bad standing until reinstated.
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Yes. The profile can show the current officers from the latest filings and the officers named at formation. LLC members are not always listed, so a missing name means review.