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
... chapter, the name of a registered agent upon whom legal notice and process from the courts ...
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:
... may be: (1) An individual who resides in this State; (2) A domestic entity ...
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
... (2) File its annual report for a period of two years; (3) Appoint and maintain an agent for service of process as required; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-401(3)-(4); sec. 428-809(3)-(4)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... to: (A) Pay any fees prescribed by law; (B) File its annual report for a period of two years; (C) Appoint and maintain an agent for service of process as required; or (D) File a statement of a change ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-461(1)(C); sec. 428-1006(a)(1)(C)
Also, apparently
... only business necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under section 428-802 and to notify claimants under section 428-807. The ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 428-810(c)-(d); sec. 414-402(c)-(d)
Locked out of the courthouse
... this State without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this State ...
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 effective date of its administrative dissolution; (2) Contain all reports due and unfiled; (3) Contain the ...
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.