Why does the Oklahoma Secretary of State show my LLC as terminated or expired?

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The Oklahoma Secretary of State is the record keeper for Oklahoma limited liability companies. 

You start with the OK SOS to form an Oklahoma limited liability company and the OK SOS tracks your entity through its.  One piece of data you can find when searching for a limited liability company on the OK SOS website is the entity’s status.  Status is usually expressed as either:

Active

Termination

Suspended

As you might guess, you want your company to be active and you need to fix your LLC’s status if it is terminated or suspended. 

Why does an Oklahoma LLC’s status show terminated or suspended? 
Here is what the Oklahoma Secretary of State says:

It means the LLC or LP is not in good standing with the State of Oklahoma due to a late Annual Certificate. Annual Certificates are due on the formation date of the entity each year, and a 60 days grace period is given to file them. After 60 days if there has been no Annual Certificate filed, the entity becomes inactive and not in good standing.

https://www.sos.ok.gov/business/faq.aspx

How do you get your LLC back in good standing?
I provide the steps to back to good standing with the Oklahoma Secretary of State in this Blog Post.

Posted by Shawn Roberts

On this blog, I write about and try to answer practical Oklahoma legal questions. My focus and most experience is in estate planning and business issues including Oklahoma non-compete law. I make a living as an attorney in the law firm I founded, Shawn J. Roberts, P.C. in Oklahoma City. I live in Edmond with my wife Amy and my two children, Sam (19) and David (11). We live precisely in the path of where the "wind comes sweeping down the plains."