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
... dissolution, three hundred dollars, plus any delinquent annual report filing fees and associated penalty fees for the period before the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-122(17)
The climb-out fee
... fees for any delinquent annual report and a fee for application of reinstatement in the amount of one ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-34A-811(a)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
If an entity that previously filed a registered agent filing with the secretary of state no longer has a registered agent, or if its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the entity may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the governors of the entity by name at its principal office in accordance with any applicable judicial rules and procedures. ...
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
The Office of the Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under § 47-1A-1421 to administratively dissolve a corporation if: ... (3) The corporation is without a registered agent in this state for sixty days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1420(3)-(4)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
The Office of the Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under §§ 47-1A-1531 and 47-1A-1531.1 to revoke the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state if: ... (3) The foreign corporation is without a registered agent in this state for sixty days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1530(3)-(4)
Locked out of the courthouse
... this state without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until it obtains a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1502
The penalty
A foreign corporation is liable for a civil penalty of one hundred dollars for each day, but not to exceed a total of one thousand dollars for each year, it transacts business in this state without a certificate of authority. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1502.2
And this
... carry on any business except that necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under §§ 47-1A-1405 and 47-1A-1405.1 ... The administrative dissolution of a corporation does not ...
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.
... fifty-five dollars, due and payable with the filing of each ...
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:
... or (b) The title of an office or other position with the entity if service of process is to be sent to the person holding that office or position, and the address of the business office of that person.
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.