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
... annual report for each year between the corporation's last annual report and ...
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
... (2) The date shown on the return receipt, if signed on behalf of the corporation. ...
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
... for ninety consecutive days to do either of the following: (1) Comply with the requirements imposed by R.S. 12:1-501 concerning the continuous maintenance in ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1-1442(A)-(B)
And this
... treated as the registered office by any person other than the limited liability company itself. The registered office shall be considered the domicile of the limited ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1308(F)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... Upon revocation, the authority of the corporation to transact business in this state shall cease, but the authority of its registered agent in this state to accept service of process shall continue.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:313(A)(2), (B), (C)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... (1) The secretary of state shall have given the limited liability company not less than sixty days' notice in writing of the grounds on which such proposed revocation is based.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1353(A)(2), (B)
Locked out of the courthouse
... judicial demand before any court of this state unless it has been authorized to transact such business, if required by, and as provided in, this Chapter.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:314(A); La. R.S. 12:1354(A)
The penalty
... one thousand dollars per violation against such foreign corporations transacting business in ...
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:
... statement setting forth the name of at least two individuals at its address in this state, each of whom is authorized to receive any process served ...
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.