NC registered agent
North Carolina. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the North Carolina code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what North Carolina does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
When an entity required to maintain a registered office and registered agent under G.S. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55D-33(b)
The North Carolina annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year North Carolina 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
$200 a year, give or take nothing.
(28) Annual report $200.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. 57D-1-22(a)(28)
What North Carolina had in mind
What is required
The North Carolina code, more or less word for word:
... A domestic corporation, nonprofit corporation, or limited liability company whose business office is identical with the registered office; or c. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55D-30(a)
What North Carolina 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 G.S. 55-14-21 to dissolve administratively a corporation 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: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55-14-20(3)-(4); § 55-14-21(b); § 57D-6-06(a)(3)-(4)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under G.S. 55-15-31 to revoke the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this State if: ... (3) The foreign corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this State for 60 days or more...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55-15-30(a)(3)-(4); § 55-15-31(d); § 57D-7-30(a)(3)-(4)
Also, apparently
... or revocation of registration as a limited liability partnership, the expiration of five years after the effective date of the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55D-21(d)(2)
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
A corporation administratively dissolved under G.S. 55-14-21 may apply to the Secretary of State for reinstatement... [Fee schedule:] (16) Application for reinstatement following administrative dissolution 100.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55-14-22; § 55-1-22(a)(16)
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.