MS registered agent
Mississippi. $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 Mississippi 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
... unless it provides to the Secretary of State with its application for reinstatement a statement of appointment of registered agent signed by its appointed registered agent and an additional ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-35-19(2)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
If an entity that previously filed a registered agent filing with the Secretary of State no longer has a registered agent, or if its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the governors of the entity will be treated as the entity's agent for service of process who may be served pursuant to the provisions of the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-35-13(b)
How Mississippi 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 Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under Section 79-4-14.21 to administratively dissolve a corporation if: ... (3) The corporation is without a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-4-14.20(3)-(4); procedure at § 79-4-14.21
Drained by the state
The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under Section 79-29-823 to administratively dissolve a limited liability company if: ... (c) The limited liability company is without a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-29-821(c)-(d); procedure at § 79-29-823
Locked out of the courthouse
... dissolved may not maintain any action, suit or proceeding in any court of this state until the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-4-14.21(f)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under Section 79-4-15.31 to revoke the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state if: ... (3) The foreign corporation is without a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-4-15.30(3)-(4); procedure at § 79-4-15.31
The Mississippi annual report. Also skippable.
Mississippi 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
Mississippi files the annual report free. Skip it anyway. Practice.
F0108 MS LLC Annual Report $0
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.sos.ms.gov/content/documents/Business/FeeSchedule.pdf
Yearly report, corporation
$25 each year. Every year.
F0008 Annual Report $25
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.sos.ms.gov/content/documents/Business/FeeSchedule.pdf
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 Mississippi code, word for word:
... and (2) A mailing address in this state, if different from the address under paragraph (1) of this section.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. §§ 79-35-2(13), 79-35-4
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.