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
... 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 ...
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 ...
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
... officer, manager, or general partner of the entity; or (3) if no agent, officer, manager, or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 5.25, subd. 1
Also, apparently
... copy of it and a fee of $50 in the following circumstances: (1) if the foreign corporation fails to appoint or maintain in this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 5.25, subd. 4(a)
Dissolved, administratively
... dissolved by the secretary of state as described in paragraph (b). (b) If the corporation has not filed the renewal during any calendar year, the ...
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
... fee with the secretary of state: (1) returns the corporation to good standing as of the date of the dissolution; (2) ...
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.