HI registered agent
Hawaii. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Hawaii code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Hawaii does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... not filed with the department director, pursuant to this chapter, the name of a registered agent upon whom legal notice and process from the courts of the State may be served, or the person named ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-64(a)-(c); sec. 428-110(a)-(c); sec. 414-440(b) (foreign corporations)
The Hawaii annual report, which you could also not do
incFACTS has not confirmed the Hawaii annual report fee yet. We were not going to either.
What Hawaii had in mind
What is required
The Hawaii code, more or less word for word:
Each corporation shall continuously maintain in this State a registered agent, who shall have a business address in this State and may be: (1) An individual who resides in this State; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-61; sec. 428-107; sec. 425R-3
What Hawaii 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
... (3) Appoint and maintain an agent for service of process as required; or (4) File a statement of a change in the name of the agent as required under chapter 425R.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-401(3)-(4); sec. 428-809(3)-(4)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... (C) Appoint and maintain an agent for service of process as required; or (D) File a statement of a change in the name or business address of the agent as required ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-461(1)(C); sec. 428-1006(a)(1)(C)
Also, apparently
A limited liability company administratively terminated continues its existence temporarily but may carry on only business necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under section 428-802 and to notify claimants under section 428-807. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 428-810(c)-(d); sec. 414-402(c)-(d)
Locked out of the courthouse
... business in this State without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this State until it ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-432(a), (d); sec. 428-1008(a), (e)
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 shall: (1) Recite the name of the corporation and the effective date of its administrative dissolution; (2) Contain all reports due and unfiled; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-403(a); sec. 428-811(a); sec. 428-1301(a)(7)
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.