NM registered agent
New Mexico. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the New Mexico code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what New Mexico does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
New Mexico has a fallback for serving a company whose agent is not around. It is in a different chapter. We did not get that far.
The New Mexico annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year New Mexico 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
New Mexico does not charge for the yearly report, according to the guidance quoted below. So there is nothing to not pay. Fine.
53-5-2. Corporate and supplemental reports. ... a domestic or foreign corporation that is not exempted shall file in the office of the secretary of state within thirty days after the date on which its certificate of incorporation or its ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-5-2(A) (corporate report duty runs to corporations only)
Yearly report, corporation
$25 a year, give or take nothing.
... report and filing a supplemental report, a fee of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978 ยง 53-2-1(A)(16)
What New Mexico had in mind
What is required
The New Mexico code, more or less word for word:
Each corporation shall have and continuously maintain in this state: A. a registered office which may be, but need not be, the same as its place of business; and B. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-11-11; NMSA 1978, 53-19-5(A)
What New Mexico 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
If a corporation fails for a period of thirty days to file the corporate reports required pursuant to Section 53-5-2 NMSA 1978 or to appoint and maintain a registered agent in this state or has failed for thirty days after change of its registered office or registered agent to file in the office of the commission [secretary of state] a statement of the change, the commission [secretary of state] shall notify the corporation of its delinquency by letter to the corporation's principal office. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-11-12(A)-(B)
Also, apparently
... pursuant to this section may apply to the commission [secretary of state] for reinstatement within two years after ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-11-12(B), (D)
Dissolved, administratively
A limited liability company may be revoked by the commission [secretary of state] if: A. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-19-66.1
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... (2) the corporation has failed to appoint and maintain a registered agent in this state as required by the Business Corporation Act [Chapter 53, Articles 11 to 18 NMSA 1978]; (3) the corporation ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-17-17(A)(2)-(3)
Locked out of the courthouse
A. A foreign limited liability company transacting business in New Mexico may not maintain an action, suit or proceeding in a court of New Mexico until it has registered in New Mexico. ... E. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-19-53(A), (E)
How that lands with us
Lukewarm. We read it once. It did not change anything.
Coming back, if you feel like it
There is a fee to bring a New Mexico company back. incFACTS has not confirmed the figure, and we did not ask, or whatever.
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.