DC registered agent
District of Columbia. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the District of Columbia code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what District of Columbia does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... service submits a declaration under penalty of making false statements showing that a registered agent for the entity cannot be found, the Mayor shall be an agent of the entity upon whom any ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: D.C. Code sec. 29-104.12(b), (d)
The District of Columbia annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year District of Columbia 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
$300 a year, give or take nothing.
Biennial report $300.00
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: DLCP 'Corporations Division Fees - Limited Liability Company'
Yearly report, corporation
$300 a year, give or take nothing.
Biennial report $300.00
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: DLCP 'Corporations Division Fees - Business Corporation'
What District of Columbia had in mind
What is required
The District of Columbia code, more or less word for word:
“Noncommercial registered agent” means a person that is not a commercial registered agent and is: (A) An individual or domestic or foreign entity that serves in the District as the registered agent of an entity; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: D.C. Code sec. 29-101.02(28); sec. 29-104.02; sec. 29-104.03
What District of Columbia 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
... under § 29-106.02 to dissolve a domestic filing entity administratively if the entity does not: ... (3) Have a registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: D.C. Code sec. 29-106.01(3); sec. 29-106.02(b)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
The Mayor may terminate the registration of a registered foreign entity in the manner provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section if the entity does not: ... (3) Have a registered agent as required by § 29-104.02; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: D.C. Code sec. 29-105.11(a)(3)-(4)
A penalty, in dollars
... with subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2, may impose civil fines and penalties pursuant to Chapter 18 of Title 2, on any person who: ... (5) Fails to designate and maintain ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: D.C. Code sec. 29-101.06(a)(5)
Locked out of the courthouse
... liability partnership doing business in the District may not maintain an action or proceeding in the District unless it is ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: D.C. Code sec. 29-105.02(b)
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
... fees and penalties that were due to the Mayor at the time of its administrative dissolution and all fees and penalties that would have been due to the Mayor while ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: D.C. Code sec. 29-106.03(b)
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.