RI registered agent
Rhode Island. $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 Rhode Island 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
... penalty in the amount of fifty dollars ($50.00) for each year or part of a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-1602(b)(1); § 7-1.2-1312(a); § 7-16-43(a)(2) (LLC)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... corporation upon whom any process, notice, or demand may be served. Service on the secretary of state ... is ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-503(b); § 7-16-11(e) (LLC)
How Rhode Island 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 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 the change as required ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-1310(a)(4)-(5)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... or (3) The corporation fails, after changing its registered office or registered agent, to file in the office of the secretary of state a statement of the change as required by this chapter;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-1414(a)(2)-(3)
Drained by the state
... (5) The limited liability company has failed, after change of its resident agent, to file in the office of the secretary of state a statement of the change as required by this chapter;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-16-41(a)(4)-(5)
The penalty
... of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, may be punished by a fine of not ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-501(b)
The Rhode Island annual report. Also skippable.
Rhode Island 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.
For filing an annual report, a fee of fifty dollars ($50.00)
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-16-65(13)
Yearly report, corporation
$50 each year. Every year.
An annual report, fifty dollars ($50.00)
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-1602
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 Rhode Island code, word for word:
... authorized to transact business in this state, in each case, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-501(a); § 7-16-11(a) (LLC)
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.