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
... the secretary at the corporation's principal office. ... If process, notice, or demand cannot be served ...
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.
... Report Prior To April 15th WAIVED / Annual Report After April 15th ...
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.
... Report - Prior To April 15th WAIVED / Annual Report - After April 15th $35.00
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:
... the filing must state: (1) an actual street address or rural route box number in this state; ...
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
... in this state for 60 days or more; (4) the secretary of state ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-14-1420(3)-(4); procedure at 35-14-1421
Dissolved, administratively
... office of the secretary of state a statement of the change; or (ii) has failed for 60 days to appoint and maintain a registered agent in this state; ... By reason of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-8-209(1)(a); procedure at 35-8-914
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... agent or registered office in this state for 60 days or more; or (d) the secretary of state has not been notified within 60 days ...
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
... department of revenue stating that all taxes imposed pursuant to Title 15 have ...
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.