MI registered agent
Michigan. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Michigan code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Michigan does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... for service of process, or the agent for service of process cannot be found or served through the exercise of reasonable diligence, service of process may be made by delivering or mailing by ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.4207(4)
The Michigan annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Michigan 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
$25 a year, give or take nothing.
Annual statement of resident agent and registered office, $15.00 if paid after September 30, 2027. Through September 30, 2027, the fee is $25.00.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.5101(1)(g) (Am. 2023, Act 133)
Yearly report, corporation
$25 a year, give or take nothing.
Report required under section 911, $15.00 if paid after September 30, 2027. Before October 1, 2027, the fee is $25.00.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.2060(1)(u) (Am. 2023, Act 135)
What Michigan had in mind
What is required
The Michigan code, more or less word for word:
... A resident agent may be an individual resident of this state; a domestic corporation or limited liability company; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.1241; see also MCL 450.4207(1)
What Michigan 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
the administrator may revoke the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation to transact business in this state on any of the following grounds: (a) The corporation fails to maintain a resident agent in this state as required under this act. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.2041(a)-(b); procedure MCL 450.2042
Dissolved, administratively
... filing fee or a penalty added to the fee required by law, and the neglect or refusal continues for a period of 2 years from the date on which the annual report or filing fee was due, the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.1922(1)
A penalty, in dollars
... file a report or pay a fee required by this act within the time specified, the corporation, in addition to its liability for the fee, is subject to a penalty of $10.00 for each month or part of a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.1921(1)
Also, apparently
... standing described in subsection (1), the name of the company is available for use by another entity filing with the administrator, and the administrator shall not accept for filing any document ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.4207a(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
... of authority by filing the reports and paying the fees for the years for which they were not filed and paid, and for every subsequent intervening year, together ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.1925(1); MCL 450.5101(1)(h)
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.