NJ registered agent
New Jersey. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the New Jersey code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what New Jersey does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
b. If a limited liability company or foreign limited liability company does not appoint or maintain an agent for service of process in this State or the agent for service of process cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the agent's street address, the filing office is an agent of the company upon whom process, notice, or demand may be served. c. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 42:2C-17(b)-(c)
The New Jersey annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year New Jersey 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
$75 a year, give or take nothing.
... Liability Company (LLC) Filing ... Annual Report ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 42:2C-93 ('Upon filing of an annual report, a fee in the amount of $75.00')
Yearly report, corporation
$75 a year, give or take nothing.
Annual Report - corporate and LP $75.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:15-2 ('for each such report required to be filed...... $75.00')
What New Jersey had in mind
What is required
The New Jersey code, more or less word for word:
(3) The registered agent may be a natural person of the age of 18 years or more, or a domestic corporation or a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this State, whether or not any such agent corporation is organized for a purpose or purposes for which a corporation may be organized under this act. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-1(1), (3); N.J.S.A. 42:2C-14(c)
What New Jersey 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.
Authority revoked, foreign companies
(1) In addition to any other ground for revocation provided by law, the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation to transact business in this State may be revoked by the Secretary of State upon the conditions prescribed in this section when ... (c) the corporation has failed to maintain a registered agent in this State as required by this act; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-10(1)(c)
Also, apparently
... a new registered agent within said 30-day period, the corporation shall thereafter be deemed to have no registered agent ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-4(3)
Locked out of the courthouse
... in this State without a certificate of authority shall maintain any action or proceeding in any court of this State, until such corporation shall ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-11(1)
A penalty, in dollars
... a certificate of authority shall forfeit to the State a penalty of not less than $200.00, nor more than $1,000.00 for each calendar year, not more than 5 years prior thereto, in which it shall have ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-11(3)
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
... filing fee of $75.00, tax clearance filing fee of $20, current annual report fee, and all delinquent annual report fees ... In the event that in the interim the corporate name has become ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-5(7)
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.