ND registered agent
North Dakota. $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 North Dakota 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
... revocation of the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation, the reinstatement fee ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-147(24)(a)(3); § 10-32.1-92(25)(a)(2); § 10-19.1-146(8)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... that previously filed a registered agent filing with the secretary of state ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-01.1-13(1), (3), (5)-(6); § 10-32.1-19(2)
How North Dakota 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
... a registered agent and registered office as provided in section 10-19.1-15... Upon expiration of sixty days after the mailing of the notice, the existence of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-146.1(1); § 10-32.1-90(1)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... agent and registered office as provided in section 10-19.1-138... Upon expiration of sixty days after the mailing of the notice, the authority of the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-146.1(2); § 10-32.1-90(2)
And this
... Until restored to good standing, the secretary of state may not accept for filing any document respecting the corporation or foreign corporation except those incident to its dissolution or withdrawal.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-146.1(3)
The North Dakota annual report. Also skippable.
North Dakota 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
$50 each year. Every year.
... of a limited liability company or foreign limited liability company, fifty ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. 10-32.1-92(25)
Yearly report, corporation
$25 each year. Every year.
... annual report of a corporation or foreign corporation, twenty-five dollars.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. 10-19.1-147(24)
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 North Dakota code, word for word:
... agent for service of process for another entity and that is: a. An individual residing in this state; or b. A domestic or foreign corporation or a domestic or foreign limited liability company.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-01.1-02(2), (19), (32); § 10-19.1-15; § 10-32.1-16
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.