DC registered agent
District of Columbia. $7 a year. Shallow end.
The rule is at the bottom of this page. We start with the bill, because that is the part that gets wet first. Every District of Columbia company names an agent with a real address in the state. We have the address. We keep a bowl at it.
The bill to climb back out
The climb-out fee
... Mayor at the time of its administrative dissolution and all fees and penalties that would have been due to the Mayor while ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: D.C. Code sec. 29-106.03(b)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... an agent of the entity upon whom any process against the entity may be served ... the Mayor shall immediately cause one of the copies to be forwarded by registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: D.C. Code sec. 29-104.12(b), (d)
How District of Columbia drains a company like yours
The state's own remedies for an agent that is furniture. Quoted. We added nothing, which is our specialty.
Drained by the state
... dissolve a domestic filing entity administratively if the entity does not: ... (3) Have a registered agent in the District ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: D.C. Code sec. 29-106.01(3); sec. 29-106.02(b)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... or (4) Deliver to the Mayor for filing a statement of change under § 29-104.07 not later than 30 days after a change occurs in the name or address of the entity’s registered agent.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: D.C. Code sec. 29-105.11(a)(3)-(4)
The penalty
... civil fines and penalties pursuant to Chapter 18 of Title 2, on any person who: ... (5) Fails ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: D.C. Code sec. 29-101.06(a)(5)
Locked out of the courthouse
... in the District may not maintain an action or proceeding in the District ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: D.C. Code sec. 29-105.02(b)
The District of Columbia annual report. Also skippable.
District of Columbia sends a bill every year to keep your company listed. Here is the bill. Not paying it is a saving of the exact kind we are.
Yearly report, LLC
$300 each year. Every year.
Biennial report $300.00
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: DLCP 'Corporations Division Fees - Limited Liability Company'
Yearly report, corporation
$300 each year. Every year.
Biennial report $300.00
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: DLCP 'Corporations Division Fees - Business Corporation'
Do we do that
We are the bowl. The bowl does not do things.
The rule, at the bottom where we left it
What the state asks
The District of Columbia code, word for word:
... other position in an entity who is designated as the registered agent pursuant to ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: D.C. Code sec. 29-101.02(28); sec. 29-104.02; sec. 29-104.03
The quoted text was captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and checked against the code on 2026-08-10. Laws move. Puddles do not.