SD registered agent
South 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 South 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
... dollars, plus any delinquent annual report filing fees and associated ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-122(17)
The climb-out fee
... for any delinquent annual report and a fee for application of reinstatement in the amount of one hundred fifty dollars.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-34A-811(a)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... Service is perfected under this section at the earliest of: (1) The date the entity receives the mail; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 59-11-16
How South 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
... (4) The corporation does not notify the Office of the Secretary ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1420(3)-(4)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... (4) The foreign corporation does not inform the secretary of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1530(3)-(4)
Locked out of the courthouse
... a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until it ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1502
The penalty
... of one thousand dollars for each year, it transacts business in this state without a certificate of authority. The attorney general may collect all penalties due under ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1502.2
And this
... and liquidate its business and affairs under §§ 47-1A-1405 and 47-1A-1405.1 ... The administrative dissolution of a corporation does not terminate the authority of its registered agent.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1421
The South Dakota annual report. Also skippable.
South 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
$55 each year. Every year.
... fee of fifty-five dollars, due and payable with the filing of each annual ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/47-34A-212
Yearly report, corporation
$55 each year. Every year.
(25) Annual report, fifty-five dollars;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL 47-1A-122(25) (as amended by SL 2025 ch. 189 s. 1)
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 South Dakota code, word for word:
... (b) The title of an office or other position with the entity if service ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 59-11-6
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.