KS registered agent
Kansas. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Kansas code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Kansas does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
After the resignation of the resident agent shall have become effective, as provided in subsection (a), and if no new resident agent shall have been obtained and designated in the time and manner provided for in subsection (b), service of legal process against the covered entity ... for which the resigned resident agent had been acting shall thereafter be upon the secretary of state in the manner prescribed by K.S.A. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: K.S.A. 17-7929(c)
The Kansas annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Kansas 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
$90 a year, give or take nothing.
... Information Report: $90 / Paper Information Report: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Kansas SOS Form ILC (rev. 1/23/26)
Yearly report, corporation
$90 a year, give or take nothing.
... Information Report: $90 / Paper Information Report: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Kansas SOS Form IFP, for-profit corporation information report (rev. 7/22/26)
What Kansas had in mind
What is required
The Kansas code, more or less word for word:
... (3) a domestic corporation, a domestic limited partnership, a domestic limited liability partnership, a domestic limited liability company or a domestic business trust; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: K.S.A. 17-7925(a)-(b)
What Kansas 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
... subsection, the secretary of state, after giving 30 days notice of the intended action, may declare the entity's public organic document forfeited or, in the case of a foreign entity, the secretary ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: K.S.A. 17-7926(b)
Dissolved, administratively
... a new resident agent as aforesaid, prior to the expiration of the period of 60 days after the filing by the resident agent of the certificate of resignation, the secretary of state shall ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: K.S.A. 17-7929(b)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... entity, the secretary may declare the foreign entity's authority to do business ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: K.S.A. 17-7926(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
... or authority to engage in business under this code shall file all past due business entity information reports for the immediately preceding 10 years and pay to the secretary of state an ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: K.S.A. 17-7002(g)
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.