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Oregon does not offer a professional LLC

Oregon does not offer a professional limited liability company. The professional form it does offer is a corporation, under its own statute — that statute, the name rule that comes with it, and the occupations Oregon treats as professional are below.

Professional LLC
Not offered
Filed instead
A corporation under its own professional statute
Agent requirement
No different from an ordinary Oregon LLC’s
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September 2026

What Oregon offers instead

What creates it in Oregon

ORS chapter 58, the Oregon Professional Corporation Act (the citation and the link are the Corporation Division's own); the articles form points the filer to ORS 58.015(5)(m) when describing the professional service

What the name must contain

From the Corporation Division's own Articles of Incorporation form: "For a PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION, the name must contain the words 'Professional Corporation', or abbreviations thereof, i.e., 'P.C.', or Prof. Corp'." The same form carries the ordinary business corporation rule separately ("Corporation", "Company", "Incorporated", or "Limited" or an abbreviation), so the professional designator is the distinguishing requirement.

Which occupations Oregon treats as professional

Oregon works from a statutory list of professional services. The Corporation Division's form asks a professional corporation to "describe the service(s) being rendered" and cites ORS 58.015(5)(m), a lettered paragraph, which shows the definition is an enumerated list rather than a general test. The Division's own guidance adds that a professional corporation is "formed for the purpose of providing one or more specific types of professional service" and that "all the shareholders of the professional corporation must be licensed to render one of the professional services."

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

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

What Oregon requires of your agent of recordThe address rule, who may serve, the filing that changes it, and the Oregon deadlines around it.

Why Oregon answers this way

Oregon offers no PLLC. The Corporation Division's Business Registration Forms page lists the domestic entity types it registers as Oregon Business Corporation, Oregon Nonprofit Corporation, Oregon Professional Corporation, Oregon Limited Liability Companies and Oregon Limited Partnerships, with matching foreign lists. There is no professional LLC anywhere in that catalogue. Licensed professionals are not shut out of the LLC, though: the ordinary Articles of Organization (the same form every Oregon LLC files) carries item 8, "IF RENDERING A LICENSED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE OR SERVICES, DESCRIBE THE SERVICE(S) BEING RENDERED: ORS 58.015(5)(m)". So an Oregon practice can be an LLC, it simply describes its licensed service on the standard form and keeps the ordinary name ending, which item 1 of that form fixes as "Limited Liability Company" or the abbreviations "LLC" or "L.L.C.". There is no separate PLLC designation to add. One form, DSCB-style, covers both corporate types: the single Articles of Incorporation form is headed "Business/Professional", a business corporation completes items 1 through 6, 9 and 12 while a professional corporation completes all items including item 7.

Forming a practice in Oregon, or in more than one jurisdiction?

Verified against the Oregon Secretary of State, Corporation Division (sos.oregon.gov/business/register/Pages/business-registration-forms.aspx) · Statute text: www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors058.html · Last updated September 2026. Oregon only — the rules in this cluster differ by jurisdiction, and this page speaks for no other.