ND registered agent
North Dakota. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the North Dakota code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what North Dakota does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... domestic entity has been dissolved; c. If an entity that previously filed a registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-01.1-13(1), (3), (5)-(6); § 10-32.1-19(2)
The North Dakota annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year North Dakota 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
$50 a year, give or take nothing.
... annual report of a limited liability company or foreign limited liability company, fifty ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. 10-32.1-92(25)
Yearly report, corporation
$25 a year, give or take nothing.
... an annual report of a corporation or foreign corporation, twenty-five dollars.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. 10-19.1-147(24)
What North Dakota had in mind
What is required
The North Dakota code, more or less word for word:
... serves in this state as the agent for service of process for another entity and that is: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-01.1-02(2), (19), (32); § 10-19.1-15; § 10-32.1-16
What North Dakota 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
... failed to appoint and maintain a registered agent and registered office as provided in section ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-146.1(1); § 10-32.1-90(1)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... has failed to: (a) Appoint and maintain a registered agent and registered office as provided in section 10-19.1-138... Upon expiration of sixty days after the mailing of the notice, the authority of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-146.1(2); § 10-32.1-90(2)
Also, apparently
... shall restore the certificate of incorporation or authority to good standing. Until restored to good standing, the secretary of state may not accept for filing ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-146.1(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
... corporation, or the revocation of the certificate of authority of a foreign ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-147(24)(a)(3); § 10-32.1-92(25)(a)(2); § 10-19.1-146(8)
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.