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
... secretary of state an affidavit stating that one of the foregoing conditions exists... then service of process, notice, or demand upon the secretary of state, as the agent of the corporation, may ...
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:
Every corporation shall have and maintain an agent, sometimes referred to as the "statutory agent," upon whom any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by statute to be served upon a corporation may be served. ...
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
... Unless the default is cured within thirty days after the mailing by the secretary of state of the notice or within any further period of time that the secretary of state grants, upon the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(M); § 1706.09(L)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
...or has failed, after the death or resignation of its designated agent or the designated agent's removal from this state, to designate another agent as required by section 1703.041 of the Revised Code, the secretary of state shall give notice thereof by certified mail to the corporation. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1703.15
Locked out of the courthouse
...no foreign corporation that should have obtained such license shall maintain any action in any court until it has obtained such license. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1703.29(A), (C)
A penalty, in dollars
... inclusive, of the Revised Code, which 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 ...
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
... within two years of the cancellation, on a form prescribed by the secretary of state, an application for reinstatement and the required appointment of agent or required statement, and by paying the ...
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.