OH registered agent
Ohio. $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 Ohio 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
... an application for reinstatement and the required appointment of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(M); § 1706.09(L); § 1703.15
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... of state, as the agent of the corporation, may be initiated by delivering to the secretary of state or at the secretary of state's office quadruplicate copies of such process, notice, or demand and ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(H); § 1706.09(H)(2); § 1703.19
How Ohio 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
... further period of time that the secretary of state grants, upon the expiration ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(M); § 1706.09(L)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... Unless that failure is cured within thirty days... the secretary of state, upon the expiration of such period, shall cancel the license of the foreign corporation to transact business in this state...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1703.15
Locked out of the courthouse
... on any cause of action arising at the time when it was not licensed to transact business in this state, it shall pay to the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1703.29(A), (C)
The penalty
... so licensed, or when its license has expired or been canceled and has not been reinstated, shall ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1703.28
The Ohio annual report. Also skippable.
incFACTS has not verified the Ohio annual report fee. We did not wade that far.
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 Ohio code, word for word:
... (2) A domestic or foreign corporation, nonprofit corporation, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(A), (C)(2); § 1706.09(A); § 1703.041(A)
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.