OR registered agent
Oregon. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Oregon code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Oregon does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... corporation upon whom any such process, notice or demand may be served whenever the corporation fails to appoint or maintain a registered agent in this state or whenever the corporation's ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: ORS 60.121(2)-(3)
The Oregon annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Oregon 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
$100 a year, give or take nothing.
... collect a nonrefundable fee of $100 for annual reports delivered for filing by an entity subject to a fee under ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors056.html
Yearly report, corporation
$100 a year, give or take nothing.
... collect a nonrefundable fee of $100 for annual reports delivered for filing by an entity subject to a fee under ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors056.html
What Oregon had in mind
What is required
The Oregon code, more or less word for word:
... (2) A registered agent must be: (a) An individual who resides in this state and whose business office is identical to the registered office; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: ORS 60.111
What Oregon 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 ORS 60.651 to administratively dissolve a corporation if: ... (4) The corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: ORS 60.647(4)-(5)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... ORS 60.741 to revoke the authority of a foreign corporation to transact business in this state if: ... (4) The foreign corporation has failed to appoint or maintain a registered agent or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: ORS 60.737(4)-(5)
Also, apparently
... except activities that are necessary or appropriate to wind up and liquidate the corporation's business and affairs ... A corporation that the Secretary of State administratively dissolved ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: ORS 60.651(3); ORS 60.654(1), (3)
How that lands with us
Lukewarm. We read it once. It did not change anything.
Coming back, if you feel like it
There is a fee to bring a Oregon company back. incFACTS has not confirmed the figure, and we did not ask, or whatever.
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.