MT registered agent
Montana. $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 Montana 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
... (b) a filing fee, which must be set and deposited by the secretary of state in accordance with 2-15-405; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-14-1422(1)-(2); see also MCA 35-8-912 (LLCs)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... process, notice, or demand cannot be served on a corporation pursuant to subsection (1) or (2) ... then the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-14-504(2)-(3); see also MCA 35-7-113(2)
How Montana 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
... secretary of state has not been notified within 60 days that the corporation's registered agent or registered office has been changed, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-14-1420(3)-(4); procedure at 35-14-1421
Drained by the state
... 60 days to appoint and maintain a registered agent in this state; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-8-209(1)(a); procedure at 35-8-914
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... (d) the secretary of state has not been notified within 60 days that the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-14-1511(1)(c)-(d); see also MCA 35-8-1011(2)-(3) (foreign LLCs)
The Montana annual report. Also skippable.
Yearly report, LLC
Montana files the annual report free. Skip it anyway. Practice.
... Report Prior To April 15th WAIVED / Annual Report After April 15th $35.00
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: MT SOS Business Services Filing Fees - Limited Liability Companies, Both Domestic & Foreign Filings
Yearly report, corporation
Montana files the annual report free. Skip it anyway. Practice.
... - Prior To April 15th WAIVED / Annual Report - After April 15th $35.00
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: MT SOS Business Services Filing Fees - Corporations, Both Domestic & Foreign Filings
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 Montana code, word for word:
... and (2) a mailing address in this state, if different from the address under subsection (1). ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-7-102(13), 35-7-104; MCA 35-14-501(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.