LA registered agent
Louisiana. $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 Louisiana 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
... an annual report for each year between the corporation's last annual report and the year in which ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1-1444(F)(2); La. R.S. 12:1308.2(C)(1)(c)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
B. If a corporation has no registered agent, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the corporation may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the secretary of the corporation at its principal office. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1-504(B)
How Louisiana 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
A. Subject to Subsection B of this Section, the secretary of state shall terminate the existence of a corporation if, according to the records of the secretary of state, the corporation has failed for ninety consecutive days to do either of the following: (1) Comply with the requirements imposed by R.S. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1-1442(A)-(B)
And this
However, if no statement of change is filed within thirty days after the registered office has been vacated, the office of the secretary of state may thereafter be treated as the registered office by any person other than the limited liability company itself. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1308(F)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
(2) The corporation has failed to maintain a registered agent or a registered office in this state, or to maintain records, as required by this Chapter ... C. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:313(A)(2), (B), (C)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... in this state or to maintain records as required by this Chapter ... (1) The secretary of state shall have given the limited liability company not less than sixty days' notice in writing of the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1353(A)(2), (B)
Locked out of the courthouse
... shall be permitted to present any judicial demand before any court of this state unless it has been authorized to transact such business, if required by, and ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:314(A); La. R.S. 12:1354(A)
The penalty
... of not more than one thousand dollars per violation against such foreign corporations transacting business in this state without a valid ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:314.1(B); La. R.S. 12:1355(B)
The Louisiana annual report. Also skippable.
Louisiana 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
$30 each year. Every year.
Domestic limited liability companies ... Annual Reports $30
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Louisiana Secretary of State, Commercial Division - Forms & Fee Schedule (Domestic limited liability companies)
Yearly report, corporation
$30 each year. Every year.
Domestic corporations ... Annual Report $30
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Louisiana Secretary of State, Commercial Division - Forms & Fee Schedule (Domestic corporations)
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 Louisiana code, word for word:
(2) A registered agent, who may be either of the following: (a) An individual who resides in this state. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1-501(2); see also La. R.S. 12:1308(A)(2) (LLC); La. R.S. 12:308(A)(1) (foreign corporation)
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.