CO registered agent
Colorado. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Colorado code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Colorado 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 an entity that is required to maintain a registered agent pursuant to this part 7 has no registered agent, or if the registered agent is not located under its registered agent name at its registered agent address, or if the registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the entity may be served by registered mail or by certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the entity at its principal address. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: C.R.S. § 7-90-704(2)
The Colorado annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Colorado 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
$25 a year, give or take nothing.
Periodic Report $25.00 n/a
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Colorado SOS Business Organizations Fee Schedule (Revised July 1, 2024), General applicability
Yearly report, corporation
$25 a year, give or take nothing.
Periodic Report $25.00 n/a
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Colorado SOS Business Organizations Fee Schedule (Revised July 1, 2024), General applicability
What Colorado had in mind
What is required
The Colorado code, more or less word for word:
Every domestic entity for which a constituent filed document is on file in the records of the secretary of state and every foreign entity authorized to transact business or conduct activities in this state shall continuously maintain in this state a registered agent that is: (a)(I) An individual who is eighteen years of age or older and whose primary residence or usual place of business is in this state. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: C.R.S. § 7-90-701(1)-(2)
What Colorado 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.
Also, apparently
... may be declared delinquent under section 7-90-902 if: ... (c) The domestic entity does not comply with part 7 of this article, providing for ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: C.R.S. § 7-90-901(1)(c); § 7-90-902(1)(a)
Locked out of the courthouse
... a proceeding in any court in this state for the collection of its debts until it has cured its delinquency pursuant to ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: C.R.S. § 7-90-903(1)
Dissolved, administratively
... and by any manner as may be provided or permitted by its constituent documents and organic statutes and, if it has failed to cure its delinquency for three years or more, the delinquent domestic ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: C.R.S. § 7-90-903(5); § 7-90-908
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... may be declared delinquent under section 7-90-902 if: ... (c) The foreign entity does not comply with part 7 of this article, providing for ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: C.R.S. § 7-90-901(2)(c); see § 7-90-808 (repealed)
How that lands with us
Lukewarm. We read it once. It did not change anything.
Coming back, if you feel like it
There is a fee to bring a Colorado company back. incFACTS has not confirmed the figure, and we did not ask, or whatever.
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.