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
... following administrative dissolution for failure to notify the Secretary of State that its clerk or the address of its clerk has been ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §123(1)(W)-(X)
The climb-out fee
... for failure to notify the Secretary of State that the registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 31 M.R.S. §1680(17)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... If process, notice or demand cannot be served on an entity ...
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
... has changed as required by Title 5, section 108, subsection 1 or the address of its clerk has been changed as ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §1420(4)-(5)
Drained by the state
... has changed as required by Title 5, section 108, subsection 1 or the address of its registered agent has been changed as required by Title 5, section 109 or 110 or that its ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 31 M.R.S. §1591(4)-(5)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... as required by Title 5, section 108, subsection 1 or the address of its registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §1531-A(4)-(5)
And this
... this State except as necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under section 1406 and notify claimants ...
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.
... 1665, a fee of $85 for a limited liability company or a fee of $150 ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 31 M.R.S. 1680(6)
Yearly report, corporation
$85 each year. Every year.
... report or amended annual report, the fee ...
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:
... of the directors or officers of the corporation, or the clerk may be a person holding no other position with the corporation. ... The clerk required under this section ...
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.