OK registered agent

Oklahoma. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.

Somewhere in the Oklahoma code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Oklahoma does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.

Where the lawsuit goes instead

Service, somewhere else

... be found, then service of process on the limited liability company or registered series may be made by serving the Secretary of State as its agent as provided in Section 2004 of Title 12 ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 18 O.S. § 2010(E) (LLC); 18 O.S. § 1026(C) (corporation)

The Oklahoma annual report, which you could also not do

Once a year Oklahoma 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

$25 a year, give or take nothing.

... FEE: $25.00 In accordance with Title 18, Section 2055.2, EVERY domestic and foreign limited ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Okla. Stat. tit. 18, 2055.2

What Oklahoma had in mind

What is required

The Oklahoma code, more or less word for word:

... general or limited and including a limited liability partnership or a limited liability limited partnership or a domestic limited ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 18 O.S. § 1022(A), (C); 18 O.S. § 2010(A)(2) (LLC)

What Oklahoma 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

... the certificate of resignation, the Secretary of State shall be deemed to be the registered agent of such corporation until a new registered ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 18 O.S. § 1026(B)(2)

Also, apparently

... and if not paid before the next ensuing September 1st, the Oklahoma Tax Commission shall suspend and forfeit the charter ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 18 O.S. § 1142(18)

Dissolved, administratively

... fee provided in Section 2055.2 of this title or pay the registered agent fee to the Secretary of State due under Section 2055 of this title within three (3) years from the date ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 18 O.S. § 2012.1(B); see 18 O.S. § 2055.1

Also, apparently

... pay the annual certificate fee within sixty (60) days after the date due shall cease to be in good standing as a domestic limited liability company or ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 18 O.S. § 2055.2(D)-(E)

Locked out of the courthouse

... or registered series that has ceased to be registered in this state may not maintain any action, suit ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 18 O.S. § 2055.2(F)

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

... certificates with the Secretary of State and paying all delinquent annual ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 18 O.S. § 2055.3(A)

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.

$102 a year stays in your pocket. Do something with it, or whatever.

Or head to the order page.