MS registered agent
Mississippi. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Mississippi code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Mississippi 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's agent for service of process who may be served pursuant to the provisions of the Mississippi Rules of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-35-13(b)
The Mississippi annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Mississippi 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
Filing in Mississippi costs nothing. You could still not do it. Consistency, sort of.
F0108 MS LLC Annual Report $0
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.sos.ms.gov/content/documents/Business/FeeSchedule.pdf
Yearly report, corporation
$25 a year, give or take nothing.
F0008 Annual Report $25
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.sos.ms.gov/content/documents/Business/FeeSchedule.pdf
What Mississippi had in mind
What is required
The Mississippi code, more or less word for word:
... agent for service of process of an entity. ... Whenever a provision of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. §§ 79-35-2(13), 79-35-4
What Mississippi 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
... without a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or more; (4) The corporation does not notify the Secretary of State ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-4-14.20(3)-(4); procedure at § 79-4-14.21
Dissolved, administratively
... without a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-29-821(c)-(d); procedure at § 79-29-823
Locked out of the courthouse
... been administratively dissolved may not maintain any action, suit or proceeding in any court of this state until the corporation is reinstated.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-4-14.21(f)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... is without a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or more; (4) The foreign corporation does not inform the Secretary of State by ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-4-15.30(3)-(4); procedure at § 79-4-15.31
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
... unless it provides to the Secretary of State with its application for reinstatement a statement of appointment of registered agent signed by its ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-35-19(2)
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.