MD registered agent
Maryland. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Maryland code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Maryland does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... foreign corporation that does business in this State: (1) Without a resident agent; or (2) ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Md. Code Ann., Corps. & Ass'ns § 7-205(b); see also §§ 4A-1002(b)(5), 1-401
The Maryland annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Maryland 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
$300 a year, give or take nothing.
... Foreign Limited Liability Company ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Md. Code, Corps. & Ass'ns 1-203(b)(3)(ii)
Yearly report, corporation
$300 a year, give or take nothing.
Domestic or Foreign Stock Corporation (D) or (F) $300
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Md. Code, Corps. & Ass'ns 1-203(b)(3)(ii)
What Maryland had in mind
What is required
The Maryland code, more or less word for word:
... limited liability company, or limited partnership whose name, address, and ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Md. Code Ann., Corps. & Ass'ns § 1-101(x); see also §§ 2-108(a), 4A-210(a)
What Maryland 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.
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... long as: (1) The corporation has a resident agent in this State; (2) The corporation does not forfeit its right to do intrastate business under ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Md. Code Ann., Corps. & Ass'ns § 7-203(c)
Also, apparently
... foreign corporation that does business in this State: (1) Without a resident agent; or (2) ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Md. Code Ann., Corps. & Ass'ns § 7-205(b)
How that lands with us
Lukewarm. We read it once. It did not change anything.
Coming back, if you feel like it
There is a fee to bring a Maryland company back. incFACTS has not confirmed the figure, and we did not ask, or whatever.
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.