Westchester County LLC Publication — Frequently Asked Questions

New York LLC Law Section 206 requires every LLC formed in the state to publish a notice of formation in two newspapers — one daily, one weekly — designated by the county clerk for 6 consecutive weeks. This applies to all domestic LLCs formed in New York. It's a legal requirement, not optional. If you formed your LLC in Westchester County, you must publish in Westchester County's designated newspapers.

Section 206 is the New York statute that requires LLCs to publish a notice of formation within 120 days of filing their Articles of Organization. The notice must run in two newspapers designated by the county clerk of the county where the LLC's office is located — for 6 consecutive weeks. After publication, the LLC must file a Certificate of Publication with the NY Department of State.

If you don't comply with the publication requirement within 120 days of formation, your LLC's authority to conduct business in New York is suspended under Section 206. Specifically, your LLC cannot bring or maintain its own action in New York courts. It can still defend an action brought against it, and its contracts remain valid — Section 206 says the failure to publish does not limit or impair the validity of any contract or act, and the other party to a contract keeps its right to sue on it. There are no fines. The requirement doesn't go away — you can complete publication at any time, and the suspension is annulled once the Certificate of Publication is filed.

You have 120 days from the date your Articles of Organization are filed with the NY Department of State. However, there's no penalty for completing publication after the 120-day window — the key is to complete it. If you haven't published yet, start now.

Everything from start to Certificate of Publication: publication in two Westchester County Clerk-designated newspapers for 6 consecutive weeks, collection of notarized affidavits from both newspapers, preparation of your Certificate of Publication application, filing with the NY Department of State, and delivery of your official Certificate of Publication. No additional fees.

6–8 weeks from order to Certificate of Publication. The publication run itself is 6 weeks (required by law). We typically start publication within a few days of your order because of our direct relationships with Westchester County's designated newspapers. Affidavit collection and state filing add another 1-2 weeks.

Just your LLC name and email address. Our system automatically matches your LLC against the NY Department of State database to pull your formation details. Your name and phone number are optional but helpful for communication.

You'll receive email updates at each major milestone: order confirmation, publication proof, publication completion, and certificate delivery. You can also track your order status anytime on our website.

If we don't deliver your Certificate of Publication at the quoted price of $385, you receive a full refund. No conditions, no fine print, no partial refunds. See our refund policy for complete details. Read our full guarantee.

Westchester County LLC Publication files directly with the New York Department of State through eCorp, the State's online filing system, under our operator's service company account, which the Department of State set up in June 2026 after reaching out about our operator's filing volume. A service company is a business that files documents with the Department of State for others. The Department offers these third-party filers a prepaid account with access to eCorp.

Filers without a service company account mail, email or fax the Certificate of Publication and the Certificate of Change, the ways the Department of State's website lists. The Department of State has told us that a mailed filing can take about a week after delivery to reach the right internal department, where it is scanned in by hand, and that emailed and faxed filings are printed and then scanned in by hand before a reviewer sees them; in the Department's words, they become "work orders created in the back office." An emailed filing gets no work order confirmation, no proof of delivery and no status, so a filer can wait without knowing whether it arrived, is being worked on, or lost a page when it was printed and scanned. Before we had our account, we saw that manual step cause missed pages and poor-quality scans, which meant back-and-forth and longer processing. None was rejected, but those filings took longer. Through eCorp, a filing goes directly into the Department's system the moment we submit it, with a work order number and a status, and nothing to print or scan. Of the 24 Certificates of Publication we emailed to the Department of State from June 13 to July 8, 2026, the Department's own receipts show they reached its system a median of 5 days after we sent them, and up to 9 days. Until then a filing has no work order and no status to check. Through eCorp, all 97 we filed from July 15 to October 2, 2026 were in the Department's system the same day we submitted them.

Of the 51 Certificates of Publication we filed through eCorp in July and August 2026, all were accepted, 9 in 10 came back within about 9 days, and none took longer than 10. On all 97 Certificates of Publication we filed through eCorp from July 15 to October 2, 2026, the file date on the Department's filing receipt was the day we submitted it, including the 20 we submitted on a weekend or holiday.

We publish in newspapers designated by the Westchester County Clerk for LLC publication under NY LLC Law Section 206. The county clerk maintains the official list of approved daily and weekly newspapers, and specific designations may change over time. Because we specialize exclusively in Westchester County, we maintain current direct relationships with the designated publications and can start your publication immediately. See our designated newspaper partners.

The Westchester County Clerk at 110 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, White Plains, NY 10601 maintains the official list of designated newspapers for LLC publication under Section 206. We verify the current designations for every order to ensure we're publishing in currently approved papers. This is one advantage of specializing exclusively in a single county — we stay current on all designation changes.

Every county in New York has its own county clerk who designates specific newspapers for LLC publication under Section 206. Newspaper costs vary significantly by county — Westchester County papers have different rates than Albany, Rockland, or New York County. Some services move LLCs to cheaper counties like Albany or Rockland to increase their margins, while charging you $49–199/year in registered agent fees. We publish in Westchester County at $385 because that's where your LLC is formed — no county change, no registered agent.

Yes. You'd need to: identify the designated newspapers from the Westchester County Clerk, contact both papers to arrange publication, provide compliant legal notice language, coordinate 6 weeks of consecutive publication, collect notarized affidavits from both papers, prepare the Certificate of Publication application, and file with the NY Department of State. It's doable, but the coordination and follow-up time adds up. Our $385 handles all of it. See what our clients say.

Most large filing companies offer LLC publication as one of many services across all 62 New York counties. They typically require a registered agent purchase ($49–199/year), may change your LLC's county to Albany or Rockland to reduce their newspaper costs, and charge $500–800+ for the same service. We exclusively serve Westchester County at $385, don't require a registered agent, and don't change your county. Our direct relationships with Westchester County's designated newspapers mean faster publication starts and fewer delays. See the full side-by-side comparison.

Because a registered agent isn't required for LLC publication under NY LLC Law Section 206. The only legal requirement is publishing in two newspapers designated by the county clerk of the county where your LLC is located — one daily, one weekly — for 6 consecutive weeks. Some services bundle registered agents because it generates $49–199/year in recurring revenue and allows them to move your LLC's address to a cheaper county. We don't do that.