RI registered agent
Rhode Island. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Rhode Island code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Rhode Island does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... the secretary of state is an agent of the corporation upon whom any process, notice, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-503(b); § 7-16-11(e) (LLC)
The Rhode Island annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Rhode Island 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.
For filing an annual report, a fee of fifty dollars ($50.00)
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-16-65(13)
Yearly report, corporation
$50 a year, give or take nothing.
An annual report, fifty dollars ($50.00)
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-1602
What Rhode Island had in mind
What is required
The Rhode Island code, more or less word for word:
... limited liability partnership, a domestic limited liability company; or (iii) A foreign corporation ... authorized to transact business in this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-501(a); § 7-16-11(a) (LLC)
What Rhode Island 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
... required by this chapter; or (5) The corporation has failed, after change of its registered office or registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-1310(a)(4)-(5)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... appoint and maintain a registered agent in this state as required by this chapter; or (3) The corporation ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-1414(a)(2)-(3)
Dissolved, administratively
... state as required by this chapter; (5) The limited liability company has failed, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-16-41(a)(4)-(5)
A penalty, in dollars
... the registered agent's authority, is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, may be punished by a fine ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-501(b)
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
... whether domestic or foreign, a penalty in the amount of fifty dollars ($50.00) for each year or part of a year that has elapsed since the issuance of the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-1602(b)(1); § 7-1.2-1312(a); § 7-16-43(a)(2) (LLC)
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.