LA registered agent
Louisiana. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Louisiana code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Louisiana does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... (2) The date shown on the return receipt, if signed on behalf of the corporation. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1-504(B)
The Louisiana annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Louisiana 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
$30 a year, give or take nothing.
Domestic limited liability companies ... Annual Reports $30
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Louisiana Secretary of State, Commercial Division - Forms & Fee Schedule (Domestic limited liability companies)
Yearly report, corporation
$30 a year, give or take nothing.
Domestic corporations ... Annual Report $30
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Louisiana Secretary of State, Commercial Division - Forms & Fee Schedule (Domestic corporations)
What Louisiana had in mind
What is required
The Louisiana code, more or less word for word:
... (ii) Files with the secretary of state a statement setting forth the name of at least two individuals at its address in this state, each of whom is authorized to receive any process served on it as such agent. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1-501(2); see also La. R.S. 12:1308(A)(2) (LLC); La. R.S. 12:308(A)(1) (foreign corporation)
What Louisiana 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. Subject to Subsection B of this Section, the secretary of state shall terminate the existence of a corporation if, according to the records of the secretary of state, the corporation has failed for ninety consecutive days to do either of the following: (1) Comply with the requirements imposed by R.S. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1-1442(A)-(B)
Also, apparently
However, if no statement of change is filed within thirty days after the registered office has been vacated, the office of the secretary of state may thereafter be treated as the registered office by any person other than the limited liability company itself. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1308(F)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
(2) The corporation has failed to maintain a registered agent or a registered office in this state, or to maintain records, as required by this Chapter ... C. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:313(A)(2), (B), (C)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... or a registered office in this state or to maintain records as required by this Chapter ... (1) The secretary of state shall have given the limited liability company not less than sixty days' ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1353(A)(2), (B)
Locked out of the courthouse
... in this state shall be permitted to present any judicial demand before any court of this state unless it has been authorized to transact such business, if ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:314(A); La. R.S. 12:1354(A)
A penalty, in dollars
... a penalty of not more than one thousand dollars per violation against such foreign corporations transacting business in this state ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:314.1(B); La. R.S. 12:1355(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
... filing of an annual report for each year between the corporation's last annual report and the year in ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1-1444(F)(2); La. R.S. 12:1308.2(C)(1)(c)
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.