WV registered agent
West Virginia. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the West Virginia code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what West Virginia does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... to appoint or maintain an agent for service of process in this state or the agent for service of process cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the agent's address, the Secretary of State is ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31B-1-111(b); see also § 31D-5-504(b)-(c)
The West Virginia annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year West Virginia 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.
... report fee of $25 for the services of the Secretary of State ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://code.wvlegislature.gov/59-1-2A/
Yearly report, corporation
$25 a year, give or take nothing.
... domestic limited liability company, and foreign limited liability company ... shall pay ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://code.wvlegislature.gov/59-1-2A/
What West Virginia had in mind
What is required
The West Virginia code, more or less word for word:
... (B) A domestic corporation or domestic nonprofit corporation whose business office is identical with the registered office; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-5-501; § 31B-1-108(a)-(b)
What West Virginia 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
... Secretary of State within 60 days that its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-14-1420(a)(2)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... five hundred eight or one thousand five hundred nine of this article that its registered agent or registered office has changed, that its registered agent has resigned or that its registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-15-1530(2)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... (iii) File a statement of a change in the name or business address of the agent as ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31B-10-1006(a)(1)(iii)
Locked out of the courthouse
... business in this state without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any circuit court in this state until it ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-15-1502(a)
Also, apparently
A corporation administratively dissolved under section one thousand four hundred twenty-one of this article may apply to the Secretary of State for reinstatement within two years after the effective date of dissolution. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-14-1422(a)
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 West Virginia 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.