OH registered agent
Ohio. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Ohio code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Ohio does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... then service of process, notice, or demand upon the secretary ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(H); § 1706.09(H)(2); § 1703.19
The Ohio annual report, which you could also not do
incFACTS has not confirmed the Ohio annual report fee yet. We were not going to either.
What Ohio had in mind
What is required
The Ohio code, more or less word for word:
... The agent shall be one of the following: (1) A natural person who is a resident of this state; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(A), (C)(2); § 1706.09(A); § 1703.041(A)
What Ohio 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 mailing by the secretary of state of the notice or within any further period ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(M); § 1706.09(L)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... Code, the secretary of state shall give notice thereof by certified ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1703.15
Locked out of the courthouse
... any such corporation shall maintain such action on any cause ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1703.29(A), (C)
A penalty, in dollars
... transacts business in this state without being so licensed, or when its license has expired or been canceled and has not been reinstated, shall forfeit not less than two hundred fifty dollars nor ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1703.28
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
... form prescribed by the secretary of state, an application for reinstatement and the required appointment of agent or required statement, and by ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(M); § 1706.09(L); § 1703.15
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.