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
A corporation administratively dissolved under 35-14-1421 may apply to the secretary of state for reinstatement within 5 years after the effective date of dissolution. ...
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
If a corporation does not have a registered agent or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the corporation may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the secretary at the corporation's principal office. ...
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
The secretary of state may commence a proceeding under 35-14-1421 to dissolve a corporation administratively if: ... (3) the corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for 60 days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-14-1420(3)-(4); procedure at 35-14-1421
Drained by the state
... By reason of the default, the limited liability company may be involuntarily dissolved by order of the secretary of state, thereby forfeiting its right to transact any business 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
The secretary of state may terminate the registration of a registered foreign corporation in the manner provided in subsections (2) and (3) if: ... (c) the foreign corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for 60 days or more; ...
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.
... Prior To April 15th WAIVED / Annual Report After April ...
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.
... To April 15th WAIVED / Annual Report - After April ...
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:
"Noncommercial registered agent" means a person that is not listed as a commercial registered agent under 35-7-106 and that is an individual or a domestic or foreign entity that serves in this state as the agent for service of process of an entity. ...
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.