MN registered agent
Minnesota. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Minnesota code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Minnesota does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... appoint or maintain an agent for service of process in this state or the agent for service of process cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the agent's street address, the secretary of state ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 322C.0116, subd. 2; see also §§ 5.25, subds. 1, 3-4; 302A.901, subd. 1
The Minnesota annual report, which you could also not do
Yearly report, LLC
Filing in Minnesota costs nothing. You could still not do it. Consistency, sort of.
no fee is required to file an annual renewal
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. 322C.0208
Yearly report, corporation
Filing in Minnesota costs nothing. You could still not do it. Consistency, sort of.
Annual Renewal $0 $0
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: MN SOS Business Filing & Certification Fee Schedule, Business Corporation (Domestic) - Chapter 302A
What Minnesota had in mind
What is required
The Minnesota code, more or less word for word:
... The registered agent may be a natural person residing in this state, a domestic corporation, or limited liability company, or a foreign corporation or foreign limited liability company authorized to transact business in this state. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 5.36, subd. 2; see also §§ 302A.121, 322C.0113
What Minnesota 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.
Also, apparently
may be served on: (1) the registered agent, if any; (2) if no agent has been appointed then on an officer, manager, or general partner of the entity; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 5.25, subd. 1
Also, apparently
Service of a process, notice, or demand may be made on a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state by delivering to and leaving with the secretary of state ... one copy of it and a fee of $50 in the following circumstances: (1) if the foreign corporation fails to appoint or maintain in this state a registered agent upon whom service of process may be had; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 5.25, subd. 4(a)
Dissolved, administratively
(a) A corporation that has failed to file a renewal complying with section 5.34 must be dissolved by the secretary of state as described in paragraph (b). ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 302A.821, subd. 4; see also § 322C.0705
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
After administrative dissolution, filing a renewal complying with section 5.34 and the $25 fee with the secretary of state: (1) returns the corporation to good standing as of the date of the dissolution; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 302A.821, subd. 4(c); § 322C.0706(a)
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.