KY registered agent
Kentucky. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Kentucky code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Kentucky does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... or any notice or demand may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the entity or foreign entity ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.4-040(2)
The Kentucky annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Kentucky 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
$15 a year, give or take nothing.
... annual report must be signed, dated and accompanied by a $15 filing ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.sos.ky.gov/bus/business-filings/Pages/Annual-Reports.aspx
Yearly report, corporation
$15 a year, give or take nothing.
... Corporations (Profit and Professional Service) - Annual Report: ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Kentucky Secretary of State, Business Filings - Fees
What Kentucky had in mind
What is required
The Kentucky code, more or less word for word:
... and whose business address is identical with the registered office; or 2. An entity or foreign entity qualified to transact business in this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.4-010(1)(b)
What Kentucky 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
... (c) If the entity does not notify the Secretary of State within sixty ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.7-010(1)(b)-(c)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... a registered office or registered agent in this Commonwealth for sixty (60) days or more; (3) The foreign ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-070(2)-(3)
Locked out of the courthouse
... this Commonwealth without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this Commonwealth until it obtains a certificate of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-020(1)
A penalty, in dollars
... dollars ($2) for each day it transacts business in this Commonwealth without a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-020(4)
Also, apparently
... appoint the Secretary of State the foreign entity's registered agent in any proceeding based on a cause of action which arose ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-080(4)
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 reinstatement penalty and the current fee for filing each delinquent annual report as provided for ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.7-030(1)(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.