HI registered agent
Hawaii. $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 Hawaii 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
... (3) Contain the payment of all delinquent fees and penalties; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-403(a); sec. 428-811(a); sec. 428-1301(a)(7)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... from the courts of the State may be served, or the person named ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-64(a)-(c); sec. 428-110(a)-(c); sec. 414-440(b) (foreign corporations)
How Hawaii 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
... for a period of two years; (3) Appoint and maintain an agent for service of process as required; or (4) File a statement of a change in ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-401(3)-(4); sec. 428-809(3)-(4)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... annual report for a period of two years; (C) Appoint and maintain an agent for ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-461(1)(C); sec. 428-1006(a)(1)(C)
And this
... and liquidate its business and affairs under section 428-802 and to ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 428-810(c)-(d); sec. 414-402(c)-(d)
Locked out of the courthouse
... a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this State until it ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-432(a), (d); sec. 428-1008(a), (e)
The Hawaii annual report. Also skippable.
incFACTS has not verified the Hawaii annual report fee. We did not wade that far.
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 Hawaii code, word for word:
... (2) A domestic entity authorized to transact business or conduct affairs in this State; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-61; sec. 428-107; sec. 425R-3
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.