IN registered agent
Indiana. $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 Indiana 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
... were due to the secretary of state at the time of the entity's administrative dissolution and all fees, taxes, interest, and penalties that would have been due to the secretary of state while ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-6-3(d)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
If a represented entity ceases to have a registered 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, or by similar commercial delivery service, addressed to the entity at the entity's principal office. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-4-10(b)
How Indiana 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
The secretary of state may commence a proceeding under section 2 of this chapter to dissolve a domestic filing entity administratively if the entity does not: ... (3) have a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) consecutive days; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-6-1
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
The secretary of state may revoke the registration of a registered foreign entity, business trust, or agricultural cooperative if: ... (3) the entity does not have a registered agent as required by IC 23-0.5-4-1; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-5-11(a)
Locked out of the courthouse
... Indiana may not maintain an action or proceeding in this state unless it is registered to do ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-5-2(b)
The penalty
A foreign entity is liable for a civil penalty of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) if it transacts business in Indiana without a certificate of authority. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-5-2(f)
The Indiana annual report. Also skippable.
incFACTS has not verified the Indiana 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 Indiana code, word for word:
... individual, a general partnership, a domestic filing entity, or a registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-4-3(a)
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.