IN registered agent
Indiana. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Indiana code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Indiana does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... under this subsection on the earliest of: (1) the date the entity receives the mail or delivery by the commercial delivery service; (2) ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-4-10(b)
The Indiana annual report, which you could also not do
incFACTS has not confirmed the Indiana annual report fee yet. We were not going to either.
What Indiana had in mind
What is required
The Indiana code, more or less word for word:
... must be an individual, a general partnership, a domestic filing entity, or a registered foreign ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-4-3(a)
What Indiana 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
... a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) consecutive days; or (4) notify the secretary ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-6-1
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... agent as required by IC 23-0.5-4-1; (4) the entity does not deliver to the secretary of state for filing a statement of change under IC 23-0.5-4-6 not later than thirty (30) days after a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-5-11(a)
Locked out of the courthouse
... in Indiana may not maintain an action or proceeding in this state unless ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-5-2(b)
A penalty, in dollars
... more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) if it transacts business in Indiana without a certificate ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-5-2(f)
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 secretary of state at the time of the entity's administrative dissolution and all fees, taxes, interest, and penalties that ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-6-3(d)
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.