How to form a Nevada PLLC

How do you form a Nevada PLLC?

1. 1

   Get the regulating board's certificate

   The articles must include a certificate from the regulating board showing that each member and manager who is a natural person is licensed to practise the profession; design-profession entities and law firms use the variant certificates in NRS 89.040(1)(d) and (e). Each organizer must be authorised to perform the professional service.

   Source: NRS 89.040(1) · Nevada SOS Formation - Limited-Liability Company form and instructions

2. 2

   Include a designator and a member's last name

   The name must contain "Professional Limited-Liability Company", "Prof. L.L.C.", "Prof. LLC", "P.L.L.C.", "PLLC", "Chartered", "Chtd.", "Limited" or "Ltd.", and must contain the last name of one or more current or former members.

   Source: NRS 89.040(3) · Nevada SOS form instructions, item 1

3. 3

   File the articles with the initial list

   File the Articles of Organization, marked as a Professional Limited-Liability Company under NRS 89, with the Secretary of State through ORION (orion.nv.gov) or on paper, together with the initial list and state business license application, and pay the filing fee set by the state. State the profession to be practised and the original members and managers.

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   Source: NRS 89.040(1)(a)–(b) · Nevada SOS Business Forms · Nevada SOS Formation - Limited-Liability Company form

4. 4

   Name a registered agent who accepts in writing

   The articles must name a commercial registered agent, or the name and address of a noncommercial registered agent, and carry the agent's certificate of acceptance. The office requires an agent who resides or is located in Nevada with a Nevada street address.

   What Nevada requires of your agent, and how we serve as it ›

   Source: NRS 77.310 · NRS 77.300 · Nevada SOS form instructions, item 4

Steps checked against the sources linked under each one on 12 November 2026.

The Nevada professional LLC

Does a licensing board have to approve the filing?

Yes. NRS 89.040(1)(c) requires the articles to contain a certificate from the regulating board of the profession showing that each director, stockholder, manager or member who is a natural person is licensed to practise it. Design-profession entities practising under NRS 623.349 file a board certificate showing control and two-thirds ownership by licensees (89.040(1)(d)); legal-services entities formed under NRS 89.070(5) file a certificate from the State Bar of Nevada showing at least one natural-person owner admitted by the Nevada Supreme Court (89.040(1)(e)). The Secretary of State's form adds that a filing regulated by the State Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors or the State Board of Accountancy must be approved by that agency before it is filed.

Which occupations does Nevada say must use a PLLC?

A general licensed-service test, not a list. NRS 89.020(10): "professional service" means any type of personal service which may legally be performed only pursuant to a license, certificate of registration or other legal authorization; NRS 89.020(11) defines the regulating board as the body that regulates and authorises admission to the profession. NRS 89.050 limits an entity to one specific type of professional service, with named combinations allowed in the design professions (architecture, interior design, residential design, engineering, landscape architecture), in medicine and allied fields (medicine, genetic counseling, homeopathy, osteopathy, naprapathy, chiropractic, psychology) and in mental-health services.

Nevada also offers a corporation under a professional statute

A practice choosing between the two forms is choosing between these rules and the ones above.

Does the agent requirement differ from an ordinary Nevada LLC’s?

No. Nevada sets no separate agent requirement for a professional entity — it is the same requirement an ordinary Nevada LLC files under.

What else Nevada requires

Nevada calls both forms 'professional entities' and runs them under one chapter; a third form, the professional association (NRS 89.200 to 89.270), must carry "Professional Association," "Professional Organization," "Prof. Ass'n" or "Prof. Org." in its name (NRS 89.210(2)). Chapters 78 and 86 apply to professional entities except where chapter 89 conflicts (NRS 89.030), so the registered-agent rules are the ordinary ones (NRS 77.310). The articles must also state the profession to be practised and list the original members and managers (NRS 89.040(1)(a)–(b)). Ownership is restricted to natural persons licensed to render the same specific professional service, with the exceptions in NRS 89.070 and NRS 623.349. A professional entity may operate under a fictitious name only after registering it under NRS chapter 602 (NRS 89.040(4)).