MT registered agent
Montana. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Montana code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Montana 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 a corporation does not have a registered agent or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the corporation may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the secretary at the corporation's principal office. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-14-504(2)-(3); see also MCA 35-7-113(2)
The Montana annual report, which you could also not do
Yearly report, LLC
Filing in Montana costs nothing. You could still not do it. Consistency, sort of.
... Prior To April 15th WAIVED / Annual Report After April ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: MT SOS Business Services Filing Fees - Limited Liability Companies, Both Domestic & Foreign Filings
Yearly report, corporation
Filing in Montana costs nothing. You could still not do it. Consistency, sort of.
... - Prior To April 15th WAIVED / Annual Report - After ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: MT SOS Business Services Filing Fees - Corporations, Both Domestic & Foreign Filings
What Montana had in mind
What is required
The Montana code, more or less word for word:
... and (2) a mailing address in this state, if different from the address under subsection (1). ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-7-102(13), 35-7-104; MCA 35-14-501(1)
What Montana 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 35-14-1421 to dissolve a corporation administratively if: ... (3) the corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for 60 days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-14-1420(3)-(4); procedure at 35-14-1421
Dissolved, administratively
A domestic limited liability company may be dissolved involuntarily by order of the secretary of state if the limited liability company: (a) (i) has failed for 60 days after a change of its registered agent to file in the office of the secretary of state a statement of the change; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-8-209(1)(a); procedure at 35-8-914
Authority revoked, foreign companies
The secretary of state may terminate the registration of a registered foreign corporation in the manner provided in subsections (2) and (3) if: ... (c) the foreign corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for 60 days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-14-1511(1)(c)-(d); see also MCA 35-8-1011(2)-(3) (foreign LLCs)
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
... (b) a filing fee, which must be set and deposited by the secretary of state in accordance with 2-15-405; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-14-1422(1)-(2); see also MCA 35-8-912 (LLCs)
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.