ME registered agent
Maine. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Maine code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Maine does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... the entity by name at its principal office in accordance with any applicable judicial rules and procedures. ... If process, notice or demand cannot be served on ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 5 M.R.S. §113(2)-(3)
The Maine annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Maine 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
$85 a year, give or take nothing.
... report under section 1665, a fee of $85 for a limited liability company or a fee of $150 for a foreign ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 31 M.R.S. 1680(6)
Yearly report, corporation
$85 a year, give or take nothing.
... annual report or amended annual report, the fee ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. 123(1)(DD)
What Maine had in mind
What is required
The Maine code, more or less word for word:
... may be, but is not required to be, one of the directors or officers of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §511; 31 M.R.S. §1661; 5 M.R.S. §102(5), (17) and §105(1)
What Maine 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
... corporation does not notify the Secretary of State that its clerk has ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §1420(4)-(5)
Dissolved, administratively
... liability company does not notify the Secretary of State that its registered agent has changed as required by Title 5, section 108, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 31 M.R.S. §1591(4)-(5)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... does not notify the Secretary of State that its registered agent has changed as required by Title 5, section 108, subsection 1 or the address of its registered agent ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §1531-A(4)-(5)
Also, apparently
... not transact any business in this State except as necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under section 1406 and notify claimants ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §1421(3)
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
... X. For an application for reinstatement following administrative dissolution for failure to notify the Secretary of State that its clerk or the address ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §123(1)(W)-(X)
What coming back costs
... for failure to appoint or maintain a registered agent, a fee of $150; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 31 M.R.S. §1680(17)
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.