CT registered agent
Connecticut. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Connecticut code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Connecticut does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... (2) the date shown on the return receipt, if signed on behalf of the corporation; or (3) five days after its deposit in the United States mail ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-663(b); accord § 34-243r(c) (LLCs)
The Connecticut annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Connecticut 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
$80 a year, give or take nothing.
... concerning any year prior to July 1, 2020, twenty dollars, and (B) concerning any year on or after ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. sec. 34-243u(a)
Yearly report, corporation
$150 a year, give or take nothing.
... report, one hundred fifty dollars except as otherwise provided in ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. sec. 33-617(a)(12)
What Connecticut had in mind
What is required
The Connecticut code, more or less word for word:
(1) A registered office that may be the same as any of its places of business; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-660(a); accord § 34-243n(b), (e) (LLCs)
What Connecticut 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
... in the records of his office, the Secretary of the State may notify such corporation ... Unless the corporation within three months of the mailing of such notice files an appointment of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-890(c); effect: § 33-891
Dissolved, administratively
... Unless the limited liability company, within three months of the sending of such notice, files an appointment of a registered agent for service, the Secretary of the State shall prepare and file in ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 34-267g(c); effect: § 34-267g(f)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
The Secretary of the State may commence a proceeding under section 33-936 to revoke the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state if: ... (3) the foreign corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for sixty days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-935
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
The application must: ... (3) be accompanied by: (A) Payment of all penalties and forfeitures incurred by the corporation and a reinstatement fee; (B) an annual report for the current year; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-892(a); fees: § 33-617(a)(15), § 34-243u(a)(11); LLC: § 34-267b(b)(3)
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.