ME registered agent
Maine. $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 Maine 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
W. For an application for reinstatement following administrative dissolution for failure to appoint or maintain a clerk, the fee is $150. X. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §123(1)(W)-(X)
The climb-out fee
For failure to file an annual report, a fee of $150, to a maximum fee of $600, regardless of the number of delinquent reports or the period of delinquency; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 31 M.R.S. §1680(17)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
If an entity that previously filed a clerk or registered agent filing with the Secretary of State no longer has a clerk or registered agent, or if its clerk or registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the entity may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the governors of the entity by name at its principal office in accordance with any applicable judicial rules and procedures. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 5 M.R.S. §113(2)-(3)
How Maine 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 corporation does not notify the Secretary of State that its clerk has changed as required by Title 5, section 108, subsection 1 or the address of its clerk has been changed as required by Title 5, section 109 or 110 or that its clerk has resigned as required by Title 5, section 111;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §1420(4)-(5)
Drained by the state
4. Failure to maintain registered agent. The limited liability company is without a registered agent in this State as required by section 1661 and Title 5, section 105, subsection 1; 5. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 31 M.R.S. §1591(4)-(5)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
4. Failure to maintain registered agent. The foreign corporation is without a registered agent in this State as required by Title 5, section 105, subsection 1; 5. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §1531-A(4)-(5)
And this
... existence but may not transact any business in this State except as necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under section 1406 and notify ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §1421(3)
The Maine annual report. Also skippable.
Maine 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
$85 each year. Every year.
... section 1665, a fee of $85 for a limited liability company or a fee of $150 for a foreign limited ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 31 M.R.S. 1680(6)
Yearly report, corporation
$85 each year. Every year.
... an annual report or amended annual report, the fee is ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. 123(1)(DD)
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 Maine code, word for word:
... The clerk required under this section is also governed by Title 5, chapter 6-A.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §511; 31 M.R.S. §1661; 5 M.R.S. §102(5), (17) and §105(1)
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.