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
... penalties that were due to the division at the time of its administrative dissolution and all fees, taxes, interest, and penalties that would have been due to the division while the limited ...
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
... 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 ...
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
The division may commence a proceeding under Section 16-10a-1421 for administrative dissolution of a corporation if: ... (3) the corporation is without a registered agent in this state for 30 days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-10a-1420(3)-(4); procedure at 16-10a-1421
Drained by the state
... (2) and (3) to dissolve a limited liability company administratively if the limited liability company does not: ... (c) have a registered agent in this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 48-3a-708(1)(c)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
The division may commence a proceeding under Section 16-10a-1531 to revoke the authority of a foreign corporation to transact business in this state if: ... (3) the foreign corporation is without a registered agent in this state for 30 days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-10a-1530(3)-(4); procedure at 16-10a-1531
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
The division may terminate the registration of a registered foreign limited liability company in the manner provided in Subsections (2) and (3) if the foreign limited liability company does not: ... (c) have a registered agent as required by Section 48-3a-111; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 48-3a-910(1)(c)-(d)
Locked out of the courthouse
... without authority, or anyone in its behalf, may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until an application for authority to transact business ...
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 ... is subject to a civil penalty, payable to this state, not exceeding $1,000.
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:
"Noncommercial registered agent" means a person that is not listed as a commercial registered agent under Section 16-17-204 and that is: (a) an individual or a domestic or foreign entity that serves in this state as the agent for service of process of an entity; ...
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.