KY registered agent
Kentucky. $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 Kentucky 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
... penalty and the current fee for filing each delinquent annual report as provided for ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.7-030(1)(g)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... process, or any notice or demand may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the entity or foreign entity at its principal office and to the attention of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.4-040(2)
How Kentucky 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
(b) If the entity is without a registered office or registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.7-010(1)(b)-(c)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
(2) The foreign entity is without a registered office or registered agent in this Commonwealth for sixty (60) days or more; (3) The foreign entity does comply with KRS 14A.4-020;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-070(2)-(3)
Locked out of the courthouse
... Commonwealth without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this Commonwealth until it obtains a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-020(1)
The penalty
A foreign entity is liable for a civil penalty of two dollars ($2) for each day it transacts business in this Commonwealth without a certificate of authority. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-020(4)
And this
... shall be considered to appoint the Secretary of State the foreign entity's registered agent in any proceeding based on a cause of action which arose during the time the foreign entity was authorized ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-080(4)
The Kentucky annual report. Also skippable.
Kentucky 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
$15 each year. Every year.
... report must be signed, dated and accompanied by a $15 ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.sos.ky.gov/bus/business-filings/Pages/Annual-Reports.aspx
Yearly report, corporation
$15 each year. Every year.
... (Profit and Professional Service) - Annual ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Kentucky Secretary of State, Business Filings - Fees
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 Kentucky code, word for word:
... An entity or foreign entity qualified to transact business in this Commonwealth whose business address is identical with the registered office.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.4-010(1)(b)
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.