Arizona records run through the Corporation Commission (business entities), the Judicial Branch public access portal (courts), Maricopa and other county assessors and recorders (property), and the Department of Revenue (unclaimed property). DPS hosts the sex-offender InfoCenter.
Arizona has just 15 counties — the fewest of any large state — which makes county-level research unusually tractable: Maricopa and Pima together hold about three-quarters of the population, so two county portals cover most searches. Each county has an Assessor for valuation, a Recorder for deeds and liens, and a Treasurer for tax bills, and the large counties publish detailed free parcel data with maps, sales history, and ownership chains.
Business entities are filed with the Arizona Corporation Commission rather than a Secretary of State — the eCorp system provides free entity search with officers, statutory agent, annual report history, and scanned documents. The Secretary of State handles trade names, trademarks, and notaries, so a DBA search and an entity search happen at two different agencies, a split that trips up a lot of first-time researchers and one we spell out on the business records hub. Arizona LLCs, unlike corporations, do not file annual reports, so LLC records go quiet by design.
The Public Records Law, A.R.S. § 39-121, opens records to any person for inspection during office hours and requires prompt production, with the Ombudsman-Citizens' Aide office available to mediate disputes. Arizona's distinctive rule concerns purpose: a requester seeking records for a commercial purpose must state that purpose in a sworn statement, and the agency may charge a substantially higher fee reflecting the commercial value of the data. Non-commercial requesters are never required to explain why they want a record.
Property price disclosure works differently than the usual disclosure/non-disclosure split. Arizona does not levy a real estate transfer tax, but state law requires an Affidavit of Property Value to be recorded with most deeds, and that affidavit — which states the sale price, financing, and personal property included — is a public record. Assessors use those affidavits to build sales data, so prices are generally obtainable even though nothing appears on the deed itself. Court records run through the Judicial Branch's public access case lookup, which covers most courts statewide, with Maricopa County Superior Court operating its own separate docket system, as explained in our guide to searching public records online.
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Not really. Arizona has no transfer tax, so nothing appears on the deed, but most transfers require a recorded Affidavit of Property Value stating the price, down payment, and financing. That affidavit is public and county assessors publish sales derived from it, so prices are usually available with one extra step.
Because Arizona LLCs are not required to file annual reports. Only corporations file them with the Corporation Commission. An LLC record showing no filings since formation is normal and says nothing about whether the business is active; check the statutory agent record and any trade name filings instead.
Start with the Arizona Judicial Branch public access case lookup, which spans most superior, justice, and municipal courts statewide. Maricopa County Superior Court runs its own separate docket search that is not fully included, so run that one directly when the matter is in Phoenix.
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