SD registered agent
South Dakota. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the South Dakota code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what South Dakota does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... by name at its principal office in accordance with any applicable judicial rules and procedures. ... Service is perfected under this section at the earliest of: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 59-11-16
The South Dakota annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year South Dakota 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
$55 a year, give or take nothing.
... reporting fee of fifty-five dollars, due and payable with the filing of each ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/47-34A-212
Yearly report, corporation
$55 a year, give or take nothing.
(25) Annual report, fifty-five dollars;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL 47-1A-122(25) (as amended by SL 2025 ch. 189 s. 1)
What South Dakota had in mind
What is required
The South Dakota code, more or less word for word:
... name and address of the entity's noncommercial registered agent; or (b) The title of an office or other position with the entity if service of process is to be sent to the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 59-11-6
What South Dakota 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
... is without a registered agent in this state for sixty days or more; (4) The corporation does not notify the Office of the Secretary of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1420(3)-(4)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... The foreign corporation is without a registered agent in this state for sixty days or more; (4) The foreign corporation does not inform the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1530(3)-(4)
Locked out of the courthouse
... this state without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1502
A penalty, in dollars
... but not to exceed a total of one thousand dollars for each year, it transacts business in this state without a certificate of authority. The attorney ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1502.2
Also, apparently
... that necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1421
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
... dissolution, three hundred dollars, plus any delinquent annual report filing ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-122(17)
What coming back costs
... charge filing fees for any delinquent annual report and a fee for application of reinstatement in the amount of one hundred fifty dollars.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-34A-811(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.