UT registered agent
Utah. $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 Utah 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
... the time of its administrative dissolution and all fees, taxes, interest, and penalties that would have been due to the division while the limited liability company was administratively dissolved.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 48-3a-709(4); 16-10a-1422(1)(a)(vi)-(vii), (1)(b)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... 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 ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-17-301(2)-(3)
How Utah 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
... state for 30 days or more; (4) the corporation does not give notice to the division within 30 days that its registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-10a-1420(3)-(4); procedure at 16-10a-1421
Drained by the state
... a limited liability company administratively if the limited liability company does not: ... (c) have a registered agent in this state for 60 consecutive days.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 48-3a-708(1)(c)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... (4) the foreign corporation does not inform the division by an ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-10a-1530(3)-(4); procedure at 16-10a-1531
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... or (d) deliver to the division for filing a statement of a change under Section 16-17-206 not later than 30 days after a change has occurred in the name or address of the registered agent.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 48-3a-910(1)(c)-(d)
Locked out of the courthouse
... behalf, may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until an application for authority to transact business is ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-10a-1502(1); 48-3a-902(2)
The penalty
... Each officer of a foreign corporation who authorizes, directs, or participates in the transaction of business in this state without authority and each agent ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-10a-1502(4)-(5)
The Utah annual report. Also skippable.
Utah 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
$18 each year. Every year.
*Domestic/foreign limited liability company (LLC) $18
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: FY2026 Fee Schedule sec. 3 Renewal/Annual Report Filings
Yearly report, corporation
$18 each year. Every year.
*Domestic/foreign corporation $18
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: FY2026 Fee Schedule sec. 3 Renewal/Annual Report Filings
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 Utah code, word for word:
... as the agent for service of process of an entity; or (b) the individual who holds the office or other position in an entity that is designated as the agent for service of process pursuant ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-17-102(14); see also 16-17-202, 16-17-203(1), 48-3a-111(1)
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.