NY LLC Publication by County

Your publication county is determined by the county designation in your Articles of Organization—the document you filed to form your LLC with the NY Department of State. Look for the county field on your formation documents. This is NOT necessarily where you live or operate; it's a filing designation you chose (or your formation service chose) when creating the LLC.

No. Under NY LLC Law §206, publication must occur in the county designated on the LLC's Articles of Organization at the time of publication. However, the customer can update the county designation before publishing by filing a Certificate of Change (DOS-1359-f) under §211-A with the NY Department of State. This is called a "County Change." The state filing fee is $30 and DOS processing typically takes 1–2 weeks. The customer can file the Certificate of Change directly with NY DOS, or LLC Publishers offers it as an optional streamlined service for a $100 flat fee (which includes the $30 state filing fee) at customer direction. After the new designation is approved, publication runs in the customer's chosen county — and because newspaper rates vary across NY's 62 counties, publishing in a lower-rate county will result in lower newspaper publication costs.

Publication costs are driven by newspaper advertising rates, which vary dramatically across New York. NYC borough newspapers (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Staten Island) charge premium rates for legal notices — often 2-3x more than upstate papers. Albany County has some of the lowest newspaper rates in the state. Under NY LLC Law §206, publication runs in the county designated on the LLC's Articles of Organization at the time of publication — so the publication cost a customer pays depends on which county that designation names. LLC Publishers operates across all 62 NY counties; our pricing reflects the actual newspaper rates of the customer's designated county, which is why our county-by-county pricing varies. Some other publication services offer a single flat price because they only publish in one cheap county (typically Albany) — in that model, the customer's LLC has to be changed to that provider's county as part of the signup, a designation that may not reflect where the customer's business actually operates. Customers who specifically want to designate a different county before publishing can file a Certificate of Change (DOS-1359-f) under §211-A; we offer this as an optional service at customer direction.

We serve all 62 New York counties. Counties without dedicated pages are covered under our "Other NY Counties" pricing. The process is identical—we handle newspaper selection, publication coordination, affidavit collection, and state filing for every county in New York.

Our prices include everything needed to complete your publication requirement: publication in two designated newspapers for six consecutive weeks, collection of notarized affidavits from both newspapers, preparation and filing of your Certificate of Publication with NY DOS, and the $50 state filing fee. There are no hidden costs or surprise fees.

New York LLC Law Section 206 requires LLCs to complete the publication requirement within 120 days of formation. If you miss this deadline, your LLC's authority to conduct business in New York may be suspended. We track deadlines for all our customers and prioritize orders approaching their deadline.

The publication process takes approximately 8-10 weeks from start to finish. This includes 6 weeks of consecutive publication in both newspapers (required by law), plus time for newspapers to prepare notarized affidavits and for us to file with the state. We begin the process within 1-2 business days of receiving your order.

We guarantee delivery of your Certificate of Publication or a full refund of our service fee. To deliver on this guarantee, we require accurate LLC information and timely responses from you. We have successfully completed every publication for customers who provided valid LLC formation documents and responded to required requests.