NY registered agent
New York. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the New York code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what New York 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 of state shall be the agent of every domestic corporation and every authorized foreign corporation upon whom process against the corporation may be served. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law §§ 304(a)-(b), 306(b); N.Y. Ltd. Liab. Co. Law § 303(a)
The New York annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year New York 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
$9 a year, give or take nothing.
... filing a Biennial Statement for a business corporation or ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://dos.ny.gov/faqs-corporations-business-entities
Yearly report, corporation
$9 a year, give or take nothing.
... or amendment pursuant to section four hundred eight of this chapter with the department ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 104-A(r)
What New York had in mind
What is required
The New York code, more or less word for word:
In addition to such designation of the secretary of state, every domestic corporation or authorized foreign corporation may designate a registered agent in this state upon whom process against such corporation may be served. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 305(a); N.Y. Ltd. Liab. Co. Law § 302(a)-(b)
What New York 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.
Also, apparently
... by the corporation of the new address after the filing of a certificate of resignation for receipt of process with the secretary of state, its authority to do business in this state shall be ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 306-A(b)-(c)
A penalty, in dollars
... the department of state sixty days after a notice of delinquency has been mailed... Such delinquency shall be removed from the records of the department of state upon the filing of the current ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 409(1)-(2)
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 York 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.