NJ registered agent
New Jersey. $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 New Jersey 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
... the event that in the interim the corporate name has become unavailable, the State Treasurer ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-5(7)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... company upon whom process, notice, or demand may be served. c. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 42:2C-17(b)-(c)
How New Jersey drains a company like yours
The state's own remedies for an agent that is furniture. Quoted. We added nothing, which is our specialty.
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... in this State as required by this act; or (d) the corporation has failed, after change of its registered office or registered agent, to file in the office of the Secretary of State a statement of such ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-10(1)(c)
And this
... within said 30-day period, the corporation shall thereafter be deemed to have no registered agent or registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-4(3)
Locked out of the courthouse
... authority shall maintain any action or proceeding in any court of this State, until such ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-11(1)
The penalty
... than $200.00, nor more than $1,000.00 for each calendar year, not more than 5 years prior thereto, in which it shall have transacted business in this State without a certificate of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-11(3)
The New Jersey annual report. Also skippable.
New Jersey 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
$75 each year. Every year.
... Company (LLC) Filing ... Annual Report ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 42:2C-93 ('Upon filing of an annual report, a fee in the amount of $75.00')
Yearly report, corporation
$75 each year. Every year.
Annual Report - corporate and LP $75.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:15-2 ('for each such report required to be filed...... $75.00')
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 New Jersey code, word for word:
... [42:2C-14(c):] An agent for service of process of a limited liability ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-1(1), (3); N.J.S.A. 42:2C-14(c)
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.