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
If an entity that previously filed a registered agent filing with the Secretary of State no longer has a registered agent, or if its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the governors of the entity will be treated as the entity's agent for service of process who may be served pursuant to the provisions of the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure. ...
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:
"Noncommercial registered agent" means a person that is not listed as a commercial registered agent under Section 79-35-6 and that is an individual or a domestic or foreign entity that serves in this state as the agent for service of process of an entity. ...
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
The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under Section 79-4-14.21 to administratively dissolve a corporation if: ... (3) The corporation is without a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-4-14.20(3)-(4); procedure at § 79-4-14.21
Dissolved, administratively
The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under Section 79-29-823 to administratively dissolve a limited liability company if: ... (c) The limited liability company is without a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-29-821(c)-(d); procedure at § 79-29-823
Locked out of the courthouse
... dissolved may not maintain any action, suit or proceeding in any court of this state until ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-4-14.21(f)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under Section 79-4-15.31 to revoke the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state if: ... (3) The foreign corporation is without a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or more; ...
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
... the applicable statutory reinstatement requirements and unless it provides to the Secretary of State with its application for reinstatement a statement of appointment of registered agent signed by ...
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.