UT registered agent
Utah. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Utah code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Utah does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... agent, or if its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the entity may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the governors of the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-17-301(2)-(3)
The Utah annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Utah 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
$18 a year, give or take nothing.
*Domestic/foreign limited liability company (LLC) $18
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: FY2026 Fee Schedule sec. 3 Renewal/Annual Report Filings
Yearly report, corporation
$18 a year, give or take nothing.
*Domestic/foreign corporation $18
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: FY2026 Fee Schedule sec. 3 Renewal/Annual Report Filings
What Utah had in mind
What is required
The Utah code, more or less word for word:
"Noncommercial registered agent" means a person that is not listed as a commercial registered agent under Section 16-17-204 and that is: (a) an individual or a domestic or foreign entity that serves in this state as the agent for service of process of an entity; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-17-102(14); see also 16-17-202, 16-17-203(1), 48-3a-111(1)
What Utah 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 division may commence a proceeding under Section 16-10a-1421 for administrative dissolution of a corporation if: ... (3) the corporation is without a registered agent in this state for 30 days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-10a-1420(3)-(4); procedure at 16-10a-1421
Dissolved, administratively
... Subsections (2) and (3) to dissolve a limited liability company administratively if the limited liability company does not: ... (c) have a registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 48-3a-708(1)(c)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
The division may commence a proceeding under Section 16-10a-1531 to revoke the authority of a foreign corporation to transact business in this state if: ... (3) the foreign corporation is without a registered agent in this state for 30 days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-10a-1530(3)-(4); procedure at 16-10a-1531
Authority revoked, foreign companies
The division may terminate the registration of a registered foreign limited liability company in the manner provided in Subsections (2) and (3) if the foreign limited liability company does not: ... (c) have a registered agent as required by Section 48-3a-111; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 48-3a-910(1)(c)-(d)
Locked out of the courthouse
... in this state without authority, or anyone in its behalf, may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until an application for authority to ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-10a-1502(1); 48-3a-902(2)
A penalty, in dollars
A foreign corporation that transacts business in this state without authority is subject to a civil penalty, payable to this state, of $100 for each day in which it transacts business in this state without authority. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-10a-1502(4)-(5)
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
... taxes, interest, and penalties that were due to the division at the time of its administrative dissolution and all fees, taxes, interest, and penalties that would have been due to the division ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 48-3a-709(4); 16-10a-1422(1)(a)(vi)-(vii), (1)(b)
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.