AR registered agent
Arkansas. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Arkansas code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Arkansas does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... if its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the entity may be served ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ark. Code Ann. § 4-20-113(b)
The Arkansas annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Arkansas wants a form and a fee to keep your company on the list. The fee is below. Not paying it is in keeping with the rest of this page, or whatever.
Yearly report, LLC
$150 a year, give or take nothing.
... Liability Company LLC or PLLC N/A $150 $150 ONLINE ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Ark. SOS BCS Franchise Tax / Annual Report Forms page (Online Fee / Paper Fee)
Yearly report, corporation
$150 a year, give or take nothing.
Corporations with Stock N/A Min. $150 Min. $150 ONLINE PDF
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Ark. SOS BCS Franchise Tax / Annual Report Forms page
What Arkansas had in mind
What is required
The Arkansas code, more or less word for word:
... this state as the agent for service of process of an entity ... Whenever this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ark. Code Ann. §§ 4-20-102(13), 4-20-104; § 4-38-115 (LLCs)
What Arkansas does next
The state keeps a list of things it does to a company whose agent is not really there. Here is the list, pasted, unedited, because editing it would be effort.
Dissolved, administratively
... corporation is without a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ark. Code Ann. § 4-27-1420(3)-(4) (corporations); § 4-38-708(a)(3) (LLCs)
Also, apparently
... is available for use by another formed limited liability company, and the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ark. Code Ann. § 4-38-708(f)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... (3) the foreign corporation is without a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or more; (4) the foreign corporation does not file an appropriate notice with the Secretary of State ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ark. Code Ann. § 4-27-1530(3)-(4) (foreign corporations); § 4-38-910(a)(3)-(4) (foreign LLCs)
How that lands with us
Lukewarm. We read it once. It did not change anything.
Coming back, if you feel like it
What coming back costs
... to the Secretary of State at the time of the company's administrative dissolution and all fees, taxes, interest, and penalties that would have been due to ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ark. Code Ann. § 4-38-709(a)-(b) (LLCs); § 4-27-1422(a) (corporations)
The quoted passages were captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and compared to the live code on 2026-08-10. Laws get amended. This page mostly does not.