How do you form a Oklahoma PLLC?
- Form
- Professional Articles of Organization (Oklahoma Limited Liability Company) (SOS Form 0010)
- Filed with
- Oklahoma Secretary of State, Business Services
- State fee
- Set by the state, and confirmed with you before anything is filed.
Get the regulating board's licence certificate
The articles must contain a certificate by the regulating board of the profession that each person who will become an owner or manager and practise in Oklahoma is duly licensed. The Secretary of State's form also accepts an original letter of good standing from the regulating board. The people forming the PLLC must be its managers and licensed and in good standing.
Source: 18 O.S. § 804 · Oklahoma SOS Form 0010
Add a professional designator to the name
The name must contain "limited liability company", "limited company", "LLC", "LC", "L.L.C." or "L.C.", modified by the word "professional" or an abbreviation such as "P.L.L.C." or "PLLC". The profession's regulating board may add further name rules, and the name must be distinguishable on the Secretary of State's records.
Source: 18 O.S. § 807 · Oklahoma SOS Form 0010
File Form 0010 with the Secretary of State
File one signed copy of the Professional Articles of Organization (SOS Form 0010) by mail or in person, with the board certificate attached, and pay the filing fee set by the state. The form asks for the profession or related professions to be practised; the Secretary of State lists this filing as PDF only, not online.
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Source: Oklahoma SOS Form 0010 · Oklahoma SOS Business Forms
Name a registered agent and registered office
Every LLC must continuously maintain a registered agent and registered office in Oklahoma. The agent may be the LLC itself, an individual Oklahoma resident, or a domestic or qualified foreign entity, and must keep a business office identical with the registered office, open during regular business hours. The registered office cannot be a post office address.
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Source: Oklahoma SOS Form 0010
File the Annual Certificate each anniversary
Every Oklahoma LLC files an annual certificate each year on its anniversary date, confirming it is active and giving its principal place of business and email address. The Secretary of State sends the notice only to the email address on file.
Steps checked against the sources linked under each one on 12 November 2026.
The Oklahoma professional LLC
What creates it in Oklahoma
Professional Entity Act, Okla. Stat. tit. 18, § 801 et seq. (§ 801: "This act is known and may be cited as the 'Professional Entity Act'"). One act covers professional corporations, professional limited partnerships and professional limited liability companies: § 803(A)(5) defines "professional entity" as a domestic or qualified foreign corporation, limited partnership or limited liability company formed to render professional service or to own a professional entity rendering professional service, and § 803(A)(1) makes the Oklahoma Limited Liability Company Act the "associated act" for an LLC. The Secretary of State's Form 0010, Professional Articles of Organization, is executed "pursuant to the provisions of Title 18, Section 801".
What the name must contain
Okla. Stat. tit. 18, § 807: the name of every domestic professional entity "shall end with one or more of the words or abbreviations permitted in the applicable associated acts; provided, that such words or abbreviations shall be modified by the word 'professional' or some abbreviation of the combination, with or without punctuation, including, without limitation: 'P.C.', 'P.L.P.' or 'P.L.L.C.'", and "each of the regulating boards may by rule adopt further requirements as to the names". Form 0010 applies this to an LLC: the name must contain "limited liability company" or "limited company" or "LLC", "LC", "L.L.C." or "L.C.", modified by "PROFESSIONAL" or an abbreviation such as "P.L.L.C." or "PLLC".
Does a licensing board have to approve the filing?
Yes, attached to the filing. Under Okla. Stat. tit. 18, § 804 the individuals forming a domestic professional entity must be its managers and be licensed and in good standing in the profession, and the instrument filed with the Secretary of State must state the profession or related professions and contain a certificate by the regulating board that each person who will become an owner or manager and practise in Oklahoma is duly licensed. Forms 0010 and 0003 instruct filers to attach that certificate, and the form accepts an original letter of good standing from the regulating board. § 804 was last amended by Laws 2024, c. 120, § 2, effective 1 November 2024.
Which occupations does Oklahoma say must use a PLLC?
An enumerated list: § 803(A)(6) defines "professional service" as the personal service of physicians, osteopathic physicians, chiropractic physicians, podiatric physicians, optometrists, veterinarians, architects, attorneys, dentists, certified public accountants and public accountants, psychologists, physical therapists, registered nurses, professional engineers, land surveyors, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, audiologists, pharmacists, perfusionists, licensed professional counselors, marital and family therapists, dietitians, social workers, alcohol and drug counselors, behavioral practitioners and certified real estate appraisers, each under its Title 59 licensing law. § 803(A)(7) defines the "related professional services" that may be combined. Under § 806, as the Secretary of State quotes it on Form 0010, a professional entity may render "one specific type of professional service or related professional services and services ancillary thereto".
Oklahoma also offers a corporation under a professional statute
A practice choosing between the two forms is choosing between these rules and the ones above.
What creates it in Oklahoma
The same Professional Entity Act, Okla. Stat. tit. 18, § 801 et seq., with the Oklahoma General Corporation Act as the associated act (§ 803(A)(1)). Filed on SOS Form 0003, Professional Certificate of Incorporation, "pursuant to the provisions of Title 18, Section 801".
What the name must contain
Okla. Stat. tit. 18, § 807, as applied on Form 0003: the name must contain "association", "company", "corporation", "club", "foundation", "fund", "incorporated", "institute", "society", "union", "syndicate" or "limited", or "co.", "corp.", "inc." or "ltd.", modified by "PROFESSIONAL" or an abbreviation such as "P.C." or "PC". Regulating boards may add name rules (§ 807).
Does the agent requirement differ from an ordinary Oklahoma LLC’s?
No. Oklahoma sets no separate agent requirement for a professional entity — it is the same requirement an ordinary Oklahoma LLC files under.
Oklahoma's term is "registered agent". Form 0010 gives the ordinary LLC rule under Okla. Stat. tit. 18, § 2010: the LLC must continuously maintain a registered agent and registered office in Oklahoma; the agent may be the LLC itself, an individual resident, or a domestic or qualified foreign corporation, LLC or limited partnership, and must keep a business office identical with the registered office, open during regular business hours; the registered office cannot be a post office address. Separately, § 808 (quoted on Form 0003) requires a professional entity's principal office to be designated by street address in its formation instrument.
What else Oklahoma requires
§ 807 also provides the professional limited partnership designator "P.L.P.". Under tit. 18, § 2008, as quoted on Form 0010, an LLC name must be distinguishable from corporate names existing at any time during the preceding three years, as well as existing limited partnerships, LLCs, trade and fictitious names and reserved names. The Secretary of State's forms page lists the professional LLC as a PDF-only filing.
Verified against the Oklahoma Secretary of State, Business Services (SOS Form 0010, Professional Articles of Organization; SOS Form 0003, Professional Certificate of Incorporation) (oklahoma.gov/content/dam/ok/en/sos/documents/businesses/forms/Fm0010.pdf) · Statute text: www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/deliverdocument.asp?citeid=66973 · Last updated November 2026. Oklahoma only — the rules in this cluster differ by jurisdiction, and this page speaks for no other.