{ "_publisher": "LL Service", "_site": "https://registeredagentbystate.com", "_built": "2026-09-09", "_license": "CC BY 4.0, link back required", "_disclosure": "Advertising disclosure. Some provider names on this page are links to that provider's site through an affiliate network. If you buy through one of those links we may earn a commission. The price you pay does not change. Providers we have no agreement with are listed without a link and ranked by the same rules. Disclosed under the US FTC Endorsement Guides and the Norwegian Marketing Control Act.", "_not_legal_advice": "This page is general information, not legal advice. State fees, forms and deadlines change. Every fact is quoted from the state filing office or statute with the date we read it. Confirm on the official page before you file.", "states": [ { "state": "Alabama", "abbr": "AL", "slug": "alabama", "filing_office": { "name": "Alabama Secretary of State, Business Entities", "url": "https://www.sos.alabama.gov/business-entities", "source_url": "https://www.sos.alabama.gov/node/1395", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "Ala. Code § 10A-1-5.31", "corp_citation": "Ala. Code § 10A-1-5.31", "url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/alabama/2018/title-10a/chapter-1/article-5/division-d/section-10a-1-5.31/", "llc_quote": "shall designate and continuously maintain in this state a registered agent that is an agent of the entity on which may be served any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served on the entity", "corp_quote": "shall designate and continuously maintain in this state a registered agent that is an agent of the entity on which may be served any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served on the entity", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/alabama/2018/title-10a/chapter-1/article-5/division-d/section-10a-1-5.31/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Alabama Title 10A is a unified code: one section (10A-1-5.31) applies to all filing entities, LLC and corporation alike. Direct WebFetch to the Alabama Legislature statute site (alisondb.legislature.state.al.us) failed with a DNS error and Justia returned 403 to direct WebFetch; this quote came through WebSearch's rendering of the Justia page, hence secondary tier." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Change of Registered Agent or Registered Office by Entity", "form_url": "https://www.sos.alabama.gov/sites/default/files/2022-09/ChangeRegisteredAgent.pdf", "fee_llc_usd": 100, "fee_corp_usd": 100, "online_filing": null, "note": "Fee confirmed via official Alabama SOS fee schedule PDF (Ala. Code § 10A-1-4.31), same $100 for all entity types. Online-filing availability for this specific form not confirmed; AL SOS references an 'Online Services' portal (alabamainteractive.org/sos) generally but the fetched page did not state this form is filable there.", "source_url": "https://www.sos.alabama.gov/sites/default/files/form-files/FeeSchedule.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "annual_report": { "name": "Business Privilege Tax Return and Annual Report (Form PPT for LLCs/pass-through entities; Form CPT for C-corporations)", "due": "same date as the corresponding federal income tax return", "due_rule": "\"due on the same date as the corresponding federal income returns are required to be filed as provided under federal law\"", "fee_llc_usd": null, "fee_corp_usd": null, "late_fee_usd": null, "note": "Alabama's 'annual report' is filed with the Dept. of Revenue (not the Secretary of State) as the Business Privilege Tax Return. The tax is calculated on net worth (variable), not a flat fee; entities with tax due of $100 or less are not required to file. Late fee not stated on the official page fetched within call budget.", "source_url": "https://www.revenue.alabama.gov/individual-corporate/alabama-business-privilege-tax-and-corporate-share-tax/", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "If an entity required to designate and maintain a registered agent fails to do so, or the registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the entity may be served with process, notice, or demand in a manner similar to service of process under the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure.", "citation": "Ala. Code § 10A-1-5.35 (Failure to designate and maintain registered agent)", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/alabama/2013/title-10a/chapter-1/section-10a-1-5.35", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "registered agent may be an individual who is a resident of this state, or a domestic entity, or a foreign entity registered to transact business in this state, and must maintain a business office at the same address as the entity's registered office", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/alabama/2018/title-10a/chapter-1/article-5/division-d/section-10a-1-5.31/", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "notes": "Alabama uses one unified business-entity code (Title 10A) so the registered-agent statute and change-of-agent fee are identical for LLCs and corporations. Annual-report equivalent is a variable net-worth-based tax, not a flat fee." }, { "state": "Alaska", "abbr": "AK", "slug": "alaska", "filing_office": { "name": "Alaska Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing", "url": "https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/cbpl/Corporations.aspx", "source_url": "https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/cbpl/Corporations/RegisteredAgentsFAQs.aspx", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "AS 10.50.055", "corp_citation": "AS 10.06.150", "url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/alaska/title-10/chapter-06/article-2/section-10-06-150/", "llc_quote": "A limited liability company shall continuously maintain in this state a registered agent and a registered office. The registered office may be the same as the office of the company.", "corp_quote": "A corporation shall continuously maintain in this state a registered agent and a registered office. The registered office may be the same as the place of business of the corporation.", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/alaska/title-10/chapter-06/article-2/section-10-06-150/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Direct WebFetch to commerce.alaska.gov and akleg.gov returned 403; quotes came through WebSearch's rendering of Justia (AS 10.06.150) and a parallel-structure LLC provision (AS 10.50.055), hence secondary tier." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Statement of Change", "form_url": "https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/Portals/5/pub/corp409.pdf", "fee_llc_usd": 25, "fee_corp_usd": 25, "online_filing": null, "note": "Online-filing availability for this specific form not confirmed within call budget.", "source_url": "https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/Portals/5/pub/corp409.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "annual_report": { "name": "Biennial Report", "due": "January 2", "due_rule": "due January 2 every two years; entities formed/registered in an even-numbered year file in even years, odd-numbered-year entities file in odd years", "fee_llc_usd": 100, "fee_corp_usd": 100, "late_fee_usd": 37.5, "note": "Late fee applies on/after February 2, bringing the total to $137.50. Figures came from WebSearch's summary of the official Biennial Reports FAQ page (direct WebFetch returned 403), not independently re-verified by direct fetch.", "source_url": "https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/cbpl/Corporations/BiennialReportsFAQs.aspx", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "A corporation may be dissolved involuntarily by the commissioner if... the corporation has failed for 30 days to appoint and maintain a registered agent in the state.", "citation": "AS 10.06.633(a)(2)", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/alaska/title-10/chapter-06/article-9/section-10-06-633", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Citation and quote confirmed for corporations. Parallel LLC administrative-dissolution ground exists under AS Title 10.50 but the exact subsection was not independently pinned down within call budget." }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "must be an individual resident of Alaska whose business office is the same as the registered office (or a domestic/foreign corporation authorized to transact business in the state)", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/alaska/title-10/chapter-06/article-2/section-10-06-150/", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "notes": "All Alaska statute/FAQ quotes came through WebSearch synthesis; direct WebFetch to commerce.alaska.gov and akleg.gov was blocked with 403 both times it was attempted, so every Alaska field is marked secondary tier." }, { "state": "Arizona", "abbr": "AZ", "slug": "arizona", "filing_office": { "name": "Arizona Corporation Commission, Corporations Division", "url": "https://azcc.gov/corporations", "source_url": "https://azcc.gov/docs/default-source/corps-files/forms/l020-statement-of-change-address-agent.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "A.R.S. § 29-3115", "corp_citation": "A.R.S. § 10-501", "url": "https://www.azleg.gov/ars/10/00501.htm", "llc_quote": "Each limited liability company and each registered foreign limited liability company shall designate and maintain a statutory agent in this state.", "corp_quote": "A statutory agent who may be either: (a) An individual who resides in this state. (b) A domestic corporation formed under this title.", "source_tier": "primary", "source_url": "https://www.azleg.gov/ars/10/00501.htm", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Corp quote directly confirmed via WebFetch of the official azleg.gov statute page. LLC quote (A.R.S. § 29-3115) came through WebSearch's rendering of Justia, not an independent direct fetch, so treat the LLC quote as secondary-tier evidence even though the field-level tag above is set for the record's primary (corp) source." }, "change_agent": { "llc_form_name": "LLC Statement of Change of Principal Address or Statutory Agent (Form L020)", "llc_form_url": "https://azcc.gov/docs/default-source/corps-files/forms/l020-statement-of-change-address-agent.pdf", "corp_form_name": null, "corp_form_url": null, "fee_llc_usd": 5, "fee_corp_usd": null, "online_filing": true, "note": "LLC fee ($5) and form confirmed via official azcc.gov form link. Corporation-specific change-of-statutory-agent form/URL and fee were not independently confirmed against an azcc.gov page within call budget; a WebSearch summary suggested no fee for corporations but that claim was not clearly attributed to an official (non-provider) page, so left null rather than guessed. Owner screenshot of form L020 (rev 6/2020) read by main brain 2026-09-09: filing fee $5.00 regular processing, mailing address on page 3, M002 acceptance required. Form PDF URL pending from owner.", "source_url": "https://azcc.gov/docs/default-source/corps-files/forms/l020-statement-of-change-address-agent.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-09", "form_name": "Form L020, LLC Statement of Change of Principal Address or Statutory Agent (a new agent also files form M002, Statutory Agent Acceptance)", "online_url": "https://ecorp.azcc.gov/", "online_note": "file online through the Arizona Corporation Commission eCorp portal, or mail the paper form", "mail_to": "Arizona Corporation Commission, Examination Section, 1300 W. Washington St., Phoenix, Arizona 85007" }, "annual_report": { "name": "None for LLCs (no annual report requirement); corporations file an Annual Report and Certificate of Disclosure", "due_llc": null, "due_corp": "corporation's anniversary date of incorporation", "due_rule": "corporations: annual report due by anniversary date under A.R.S. § 10-1622; Arizona LLCs have no annual/periodic report requirement", "fee_llc_usd": null, "fee_corp_usd": null, "late_fee_usd": null, "note": "LLC has no annual report (Arizona is one of the few states with no LLC annual filing; no AZCC LLC annual-report form or fee was found in search results, consistent with this). Corporation late penalty accrues at $9/month under A.R.S. § 10-122 rather than a single flat late fee; exact corporation annual-report base fee amount not confirmed within call budget.", "source_url": "https://www.azleg.gov/ars/10/01622.htm", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text_llc": "Grounds for administrative dissolution include the LLC being without a statutory agent in this state.", "text_corp": "A corporation is subject to administrative dissolution if it is without a statutory agent or known place of business in this state.", "citation": "A.R.S. § 29-3708 (LLC administrative dissolution); A.R.S. § 10-1420 et seq. (corporation grounds for administrative dissolution)", "source_tier": "secondary", "note": "Text is a paraphrase from WebSearch synthesis, not independently verified verbatim within call budget.", "source_url": "https://www.azleg.gov/ars/29/03708.htm", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "must be an individual who resides in Arizona (or a domestic/foreign corporation or LLC authorized to transact business in the state)", "source_tier": "primary", "source_url": "https://www.azleg.gov/ars/10/00501.htm", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "notes": "Arizona uses 'statutory agent' terminology. LLC and corporation sit under separate titles (29 vs 10) with separate forms/fees; corporation-side change-form fee and exact annual-report fee are incomplete (null with notes) because the call budget ran out before an official azcc.gov page could confirm them." }, { "state": "Arkansas", "abbr": "AR", "slug": "arkansas", "filing_office": { "name": "Arkansas Secretary of State, Business and Commercial Services", "url": "https://www.sos.arkansas.gov/business-commercial-services-bcs", "source_url": "https://www.sos.arkansas.gov/uploads/bcs/DO-3_DN_04_F-06ALL.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "Ark. Code Ann. § 4-38-115", "corp_citation": null, "url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/arkansas/title-4/subtitle-3/chapter-38/subchapter-1/section-4-38-115/", "quote": "Each limited liability company and each registered foreign limited liability company shall designate and maintain a registered agent in this state in compliance with the Model Registered Agents Act, § 4-20-101 et seq.", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/arkansas/title-4/subtitle-3/chapter-38/subchapter-1/section-4-38-115/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "LLC citation and verbatim quote confirmed from cached Justia (secondary tier, no arkleg.state.ar.us page in cache). Corporation registered-agent citation (Arkansas Business Corporation Act, distinct chapter) is not in the cache; corp_citation stays null." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Notice of Change of Registered Agent Information (Form DO-3)", "form_url": "https://www.sos.arkansas.gov/uploads/bcs/DO-3_DN_04_F-06ALL.pdf", "fee_llc_usd": 0, "fee_corp_usd": 0, "online_filing": true, "note": "No fee to file the Notice of Change form; can be filed online via the Arkansas SOS Corporations Online Filing System or by mailing Form DO-3.", "source_url": "https://www.sos.arkansas.gov/business-commercial-services-bcs/forms-fees/corporations", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "mail_to": "Arkansas Secretary of State, Business & Commercial Services (BCS), Victory Building, 1401 W. Capitol Avenue, Suite 250, Little Rock, AR 72201", "online_url": null, "online_note": "Cached forms-fees/corporations page confirms Notice of Change of Registered Agent (Form DO-03) is No Fee both online and paper for corporations and LLCs, filed via an ONLINE link on that page; the actual portal URL is not recoverable from the cached text (hyperlink target stripped, only the anchor text \"ONLINE\" is present)." }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual LLC Franchise Tax Report (LLC); Annual Corporation Franchise Tax Report (corporation)", "due": "May 1", "due_rule": "\"Reports and taxes are due on or before May 1\" (Arkansas Corporate Franchise Tax Act of 1979, A.C.A. § 26-54-101 et seq.)", "fee_llc_usd": 150, "fee_corp_usd": null, "late_fee_usd": 25, "note": "LLC franchise tax is a flat $150, confirmed directly from the official 2025 LLC franchise-tax form PDF (\"ALL LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES PAY $150.00\"). Corporation franchise tax is calculated on outstanding stock/par value, not a flat fee, and was not resolved to a single number within call budget. Late filing penalty is a flat $25 plus interest at 0.000274/day, per the same official form.", "source_url": "https://www.sos.arkansas.gov/uploads/bcs/LLC1_FT_2025.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": null, "citation": null, "source_url": null, "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "not in cached official pages 2026-09-08" }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": null, "conditions": null, "source_url": null, "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "not in cached official pages 2026-09-08" }, "notes": "Arkansas registered-agent statute citation/quote, no-agent penalty, and own-agent-allowed rule are not in the cached sos.arkansas.gov pages (commercial-registered-agents, corporations forms/fees, athlete-agent page, Affidavit_for_use_of_Registered_Agent.pdf [PDF text extraction unreadable/binary], and 3 LLP annual-report PDFs) checked 2026-09-08; left null per no-guessing rule. filing_office, change_agent and annual_report already carried source_url from a prior session and were kept unchanged (their cited source PDFs, DO-3 form and LLC1_FT_2025.pdf, are not in the current cache either, but rule 1 says keep already-sourced fields, not re-verify them). 2026-09-08 pass 2: ra_statute.llc_citation/quote filled from cached Justia AR Code §4-38-115 (secondary); corp_citation still not in cache. change_agent.mail_to filled from cached BCS office address; online_url stays null (portal hyperlink stripped from cached text, only ONLINE anchor text present); confirmed No Fee for corp too via forms-fees/corporations page. penalty_no_agent and own_agent_allowed: re-checked all 11 cached files (grepped dissol/forfeit/revok/registered agent) 2026-09-08, still not present (only dissolution forms list exists, no statute text on the trigger; no page discusses owner-as-own-agent) — remain null. 2026-09-09 re-check pass: cache unchanged since 2026-09-08 (all 11 files, same fetch timestamps); grepped dissol|revok|forfeit, Business Corporation Act, own registered agent|itself as|be its own — no new hits beyond the dissolution-forms list already noted. ra_statute.corp_citation, penalty_no_agent, own_agent_allowed confirmed still not in cache. 2026-09-09 re-check pass: 3 new/re-fetched cache files (forms-fees/llc, forms-fees/llc/foreign-llc, forms-fees/cooperative). Both LLC fee-schedule pages reconfirm 'Notice of Change of Registered Agent for LLC (Form DO-03)' = No Fee online and paper, matching change_agent.fee_llc_usd/fee_corp_usd=0 already on file; no new hyperlink for the ONLINE portal or mail_to beyond what is already recorded. Cooperative fee schedule is unrelated to registered agents (cooperative entity fees only). No new information on ra_statute.corp_citation, penalty_no_agent, or own_agent_allowed -- still not in cache 2026-09-09." }, { "state": "California", "abbr": "CA", "slug": "california", "filing_office": { "name": "California Secretary of State, Business Programs Division", "url": "https://www.sos.ca.gov/business-programs/business-entities", "source_url": "https://www.sos.ca.gov/business-programs/business-entities/service-process", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "Cal. Corp. Code 17701.13", "corp_citation": "Cal. Corp. Code 1502", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CORP§ionNum=17701.13", "quote": "the agent for service of process of a limited liability company shall be an individual who is a resident of this state or a corporation that has complied with Section 1505", "source_tier": "primary", "source_url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CORP§ionNum=17701.13", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Main brain verified from cached official leginfo text 2026-09-08" }, "change_agent": { "corp_form_name": "Statement of Information (Form SI-200/SI-550) or Agent for Service of Process form", "llc_form_name": "Statement of Information (Form LLC-12) / Form LLC-12R", "form_url": "https://bizfileonline.sos.ca.gov/", "fee_llc_usd": 20, "fee_corp_usd": 25, "online_filing": true, "note": "Agent changes are made on the Statement of Information; fee $20 (LLC) or $25 (corporation) per SOS FAQ, main brain verified 2026-09-08", "source_url": "https://www.sos.ca.gov/business-programs/business-entities/faqs", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "online_url": "https://bizfileonline.sos.ca.gov/", "online_note": "file the Statement of Information online at bizfileOnline; the agent change is part of that filing (SOS FAQ)", "mail_to": null }, "annual_report": { "name": "Statement of Information", "due": "within 90 days of registration, then every year (corporations) or every 2 years (LLCs)", "due_rule": "corporations file within 90 days of incorporation and annually thereafter; LLCs file within 90 days of formation and every 2 years thereafter", "fee_llc_usd": 20, "fee_corp_usd": 25, "late_fee_usd": null, "note": "SOS FAQ: the fee for filing a Statement of Information is $20 or $25 (LLC $20, corporation $25). The $250 late penalty was a search-synthesis figure and is not confirmed on a cached official page; left null.", "source_url": "https://www.sos.ca.gov/business-programs/business-entities/faqs", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "A business entity's powers, rights and privileges, including the right to use its name, can be suspended or forfeited by the Secretary of State, for example for failing to file the Statement of Information that names the agent", "citation": "SOS FAQ, suspended/forfeited entities", "source_url": "https://www.sos.ca.gov/business-programs/business-entities/faqs", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Main brain read from cached official FAQ 2026-09-08; the statute-level consequence for no agent is not yet quoted" }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "an individual who is a resident of California, or a registered corporate agent under Section 1505; the LLC cannot name itself", "source_tier": "primary", "source_url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CORP§ionNum=17701.13", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "notes": "" }, { "state": "Colorado", "abbr": "CO", "slug": "colorado", "filing_office": { "name": "Colorado Secretary of State, Business Division", "url": "https://www.coloradosos.gov/pubs/business/main.htm", "source_url": "https://www.coloradosos.gov/pubs/business/FAQs/regAgent.html", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "C.R.S. § 7-90-701", "corp_citation": "C.R.S. § 7-90-701", "url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/colorado/title-7/corporations-and-associations/article-90/part-7/section-7-90-701/", "quote": "must continuously maintain a registered agent that is an individual who is eighteen years of age or older and whose primary residence or usual place of business is in Colorado", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/colorado/title-7/corporations-and-associations/article-90/part-7/section-7-90-701/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Colorado's Business Organizations Code (Title 7, Article 90) is unified across entity types, so the same statute (7-90-701, definitions cross-referenced at 7-90-102(55)(56)(56.5)) applies to LLCs and corporations. The citation number itself is now confirmed on the primary coloradosos.gov FAQ ('For more information, see sections 7-90-102 (55), (56) and (56.5), C.R.S. and section 7-90-701, C.R.S.'), but no coloradosos.gov page in the cache quotes the statute text verbatim - quote is still sourced from the cached Justia mirror, so source_tier stays secondary for that field." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Statement of Change Changing the Registered Agent Information", "form_url": "https://www.coloradosos.gov/pubs/business/forms_main.html", "fee_llc_usd": 10, "fee_corp_usd": 10, "online_filing": true, "online_url": "https://www.coloradosos.gov/biz/BusinessEntityCriteriaExt.do", "online_note": "Colorado filings are electronic-only; the forms-listing page lists this filing as 'Search for your record to file online' with no separate paper-mail option (fee schedule shows 'n/a' under Paper fee for this filing).", "mail_to": null, "source_url": "https://www.coloradosos.gov/pubs/info_center/fees/business.html", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "fee confirmed on the official Business Organizations Fee Schedule: 'Statement of Change Changing the Registered Agent Information, $10.00 [online], n/a [paper]' - flat fee, not entity-type-specific, so fee_llc_usd and fee_corp_usd are both 10. The filing instructions page (CHANGE_RA_HELP.html) states this form is 'filed pursuant to § 7-90-305 and § 7-90-702 of the Colorado Revised Statutes'. mail_to is null because Colorado does not accept a paper/mail version of this filing (online-only); online_url is the business-database search entry point named on the FAQ (www.coloradosos.gov > Business, Trademarks, Trade Names > Search business database > File a form), not a page independently fetched into the cache, so treat with that caveat." }, "annual_report": { "name": "Periodic Report", "due": "the entity's assigned Periodic Report Month, shown on the entity's Summary page; filing is accepted from two months before through two months after that month without penalty", "due_rule": "The Periodic Report can be filed two months prior to the Periodic Report month or two months after without any penalty.", "fee_llc_usd": 25, "fee_corp_usd": 25, "late_fee_usd": 50, "source_url": "https://www.coloradosos.gov/pubs/info_center/fees/business.html", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "fee ($25.00 online) and late filing penalty ($50.00 online) confirmed verbatim on the official fee schedule, flat across entity types. due_rule quote is verbatim from the cached Periodic Reports FAQ (Q4); the exact reporting month is assigned per entity (tied to formation date) and is not a single fixed calendar date, so due is described by rule rather than a specific date - this matches how Colorado's own FAQ describes it, not a gap in the cache." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "If you don't maintain a registered agent, your entity is at risk in four ways: you may not receive critical information (e.g. a lawsuit summons), your entity risks its good standing with the state, your business (and you personally) may be hit with fines and penalties for noncompliance, and your entity status will be changed to delinquent.", "citation": "C.R.S. § 7-90-701 et seq.; see also § 7-90-704(2), C.R.S. (service by mail on the entity's principal address when the registered agent cannot be located)", "source_url": "https://www.coloradosos.gov/pubs/business/FAQs/regAgent.html", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "verbatim paraphrase-quote from the official Business FAQs 'Registered agent' Q9, a primary coloradosos.gov page (upgrades the prior draft's WebSearch-derived paraphrase). Delinquent status can, per the Periodic Reports FAQ, lead toward administrative dissolution if not cured; the FAQ pages describe the mechanism and consequence but do not cite one single dissolution subsection number, so the citation given is the general Article 90 registered-agent/delinquency provision plus the specific alternate-service subsection that is directly quoted on the page." }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "The registered agent can be either an individual or an entity. An individual must be over 18, must have either their primary residence or a usual place of business in Colorado, and must hold a current valid Colorado driver's license or ID card (or verify residency by an alternative passcode process). An entity registered agent must be in good standing with the Colorado Secretary of State and have a usual place of business in Colorado; an entity 'may serve as its own registered agent after registering and if it is in good standing' via a two-step process (first appoint an eligible individual or another entity, then file a Statement of Change to self-select).", "source_url": "https://www.coloradosos.gov/pubs/business/FAQs/regAgent.html", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "verbatim/near-verbatim from the official Business FAQs 'Registered agent' Q2, a primary coloradosos.gov page (upgrades the prior draft's Justia-sourced paraphrase). Effective July 1, 2025 individuals must additionally verify Colorado residency with a driver's license/ID or the alternate address-verification passcode process (House Bill 24-1137), per the cached RAchanges.html page." }, "notes": "Colorado's Business Organizations Code (Title 7, Article 90) is unified: the same registered-agent statute, periodic-report fee, and rules apply to both LLCs and corporations. All registered-agent-related filings (change of agent, periodic report) are online-only through the Secretary of State's business database - there is no paper/mail option (fee schedule marks paper fee 'n/a' for these filings), which is why mail_to is null by design rather than a cache gap. Registered-agent requirements changed effective July 1, 2025 (HB 24-1137): individual agents must now verify Colorado residency via a driver's license/ID or an alternate passcode process; this is newer than the general statute text quoted from Justia and is documented on the cached RAchanges.html page." }, { "state": "Connecticut", "abbr": "CT", "slug": "connecticut", "filing_office": { "name": "Connecticut Secretary of the State, Business Services Division", "url": "https://portal.ct.gov/sots/business-services", "source_url": "https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/SOTS/Business-Services/BSD-Forms/llc-2017/change_of_agent.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "Conn. Gen. Stat. § 34-243n", "corp_citation": "Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-660", "url": "https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_613a.htm", "llc_quote": "Each limited liability company and each registered foreign limited liability company shall designate and maintain a registered agent in this state.", "corp_quote": null, "source_tier": "primary for llc_citation/llc_quote (cga.ct.gov chapter 613a, official legislature site); corp_citation is carried over from a prior secondary Justia read, not independently verified this pass", "source_url": "https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_613a.htm", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "LLC citation and verbatim quote confirmed 2026-09-08 from the cached CGA chapter 613a statute text (Sec. 34-243n(a)). Corporation registered-agent chapter (CT Business Corporation Act, ch. 601) is not in the cache, so corp_quote stays null and corp_citation is unverified this pass." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Change of Agent", "form_url": "https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/SOTS/Business-Services/BSD-Forms/llc-2017/change_of_agent.pdf", "fee_llc_usd": 50, "fee_corp_usd": 50, "online_filing": true, "note": "$50 filing fee confirmed directly from the official form PDF (\"FILING FEE: $50\"), with a stated $20 exception fee whose applicability (likely nonstock/nonprofit corporations) was not resolved within budget.", "source_url": "https://business.ct.gov/-/media/businessonestop/bsd_forms/llc---20211221/bus-038_change_of_agent_name_by_registered_agent_fillable.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "online_url": null, "online_note": "Cached business.ct.gov/knowledge-base/articles/domestic-annual-report-forms-and-fees confirms annual reports are filed online via Business.CT.gov; the Change of Agent PDF form itself (bus-038) is a paper/mail form with a $50 filing fee payable by check, no online-filing option stated on the cached form page.", "mail_to": "Secretary of the State, P.O. Box 150470, Hartford, CT 06115-0470" }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Report", "due": "after January 1 and before April 1 each year", "due_rule": "Conn. Gen. Stat. § 34-247k(c): \"The first annual report must be filed with the Secretary of the State after January first and before April first of the year following the calendar year in which the limited liability company was formed... Subsequent annual reports must be filed with the Secretary of the State after January first and before April first of each calendar year thereafter.\"", "fee_llc_usd": 80, "fee_corp_usd": 150, "late_fee_usd": null, "source_url": "https://business.ct.gov/knowledge-base/articles/domestic-annual-report-forms-and-fees", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Fees confirmed from the cached page: Corporation Annual Report $150, Non-stock Corporation Annual Report $50, LLC/LLP/LP Annual Report $80. All annual reports must be filed online. Due date and due_rule not stated on this page (a 'Annual Report Due Date' related-article link is referenced but that page itself is not in the cache); late fee not in cached pages. Due date/due_rule filled 2026-09-08 from cached CGA chapter 613a, Sec. 34-247k(c) (LLC annual report window); this is the LLC-specific window, corporation annual report window not independently confirmed in cache. Late fee still not in cached pages." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "Whenever it comes to the attention of the Secretary of the State that a delinquent limited liability company has failed to maintain a registered agent for service, the Secretary of the State may notify the company by electronic mail that its rights and powers are prima facie forfeited; unless the company files an appointment of a registered agent within three months of the notice, the Secretary shall file a certificate of dissolution by forfeiture.", "citation": "Conn. Gen. Stat. § 34-267g(c) (Dissolution by forfeiture)", "source_url": "https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_613a.htm", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "LLC-specific penalty confirmed from cached CGA chapter 613a. Corporation-specific penalty (ch. 601/601a) not in the cache." }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "The registered agent for an LLC may be a natural person who is a resident of this state (among other qualifying entity types); the agent must have a place of business in this state (Conn. Gen. Stat. § 34-243n(b)(1) and (e)).", "source_url": "https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_613a.htm", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "notes": "Connecticut's change-of-agent fee ($50, with a $20 exception) and the annual report fee schedule ($150 corp / $50 non-stock corp / $80 LLC-LLP-LP) are both confirmed directly from cached business.ct.gov pages. Annual report due date, late fee, no-agent penalty text/citation, and own-agent-allowed rule are not in the cached pages (checked: registered-agent article, commercial-registered-agents article, domestic-annual-report-forms-and-fees, and the 3 cached PDF forms) and remain null. 2026-09-08 pass 2: ra_statute (llc citation/quote, primary cga.ct.gov), annual_report due/due_rule, penalty_no_agent, own_agent_allowed, and change_agent.mail_to/online_filing/online_note all filled from the newly cached CGA chapter 613a statute text and business.ct.gov pages. Corp-specific citation/quote/penalty/due-date remain unverified (Business Corporation Act chapter not cached). change_agent.online_url and annual_report.late_fee_usd still null, not in cache." }, { "state": "Delaware", "abbr": "DE", "slug": "delaware", "filing_office": { "name": "Delaware Division of Corporations", "url": "https://corp.delaware.gov/", "source_url": "https://corp.delaware.gov/agents/", "accessed": "2026-09-09" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "6 Del. C. § 18-104", "corp_citation": "8 Del. C. § 132", "url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/delaware/title-8/chapter-1/subchapter-iii/section-132/", "llc_quote": null, "corp_quote": "Every corporation shall have and maintain in this State a registered agent, which agent may be any of: (1) The corporation itself; (2) An individual resident in this State;", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/delaware/title-8/chapter-1/subchapter-iii/section-132/", "accessed": "2026-09-09", "note": "corp_quote and corp_citation are now independently verified verbatim against the cached law.justia.com Title 8 section 132 page (secondary tier -- justia, not code.delaware.gov, which was not in the fetch job's cache). llc_citation (6 Del. C. section 18-104) remains unconfirmed: no LLC-title statute page is in data/sources/delaware/, so llc_quote stays null; this citation number was carried over from a pre-cache pass and not verified against any cached source 2026-09-09." }, "change_agent": { "corp_form_name": "Certificate of Change of Registered Agent/Office for Corporation", "corp_form_url": "https://corpfiles.delaware.gov/corp-coa09.pdf", "llc_form_name": "Certificate of Amendment Changing Only the Registered Office/Agent of Limited Liability Company", "llc_form_url": "https://corpfiles.delaware.gov/LLC_Forms/LLCAmendCOA.pdf", "fee_llc_usd": 50, "fee_corp_usd": 50, "fee_corp_nonprofit_usd": 5, "additional_page_fee_usd": 9, "certified_copy_fee_usd": 50, "online_filing": null, "mail_to": "Delaware Division of Corporations, 401 Federal Street – Suite 4, Dover, DE 19901", "note": "fee_corp_usd ($50, $5 for non-profit corporations), additional_page_fee_usd ($9/page over 1 page), certified_copy_fee_usd ($50), and mail_to are now confirmed verbatim from the cached corp-coa09.pdf itself (filed under Section 133 of the General Corporation Law; checks payable to \"Delaware Secretary of State\"). fee_llc_usd ($50) is carried over from the pre-cache pass and NOT confirmed 2026-09-09 -- the LLC amendment form (LLCAmendCOA.pdf) is not in the cache, so no LLC-specific fee page was fetched; the corp fee is applied as an assumption only insofar as it was already on file, not newly verified. online_filing not confirmed: the cached corp.delaware.gov pages list \"Document Filing and Certificate Request Service\" as an online service but do not state whether a registered-agent/office change specifically can be filed through it.", "source_url": "https://corpfiles.delaware.gov/corp-coa09.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-09" }, "annual_report": { "name": "LLC/LP/GP: flat Annual Tax, no report filed; Corporation: Annual Franchise Tax Report", "due_llc": "June 1st", "due_corp": null, "due_rule": "\"LLCs, LPs, and GPs are not required to file Annual Franchise Tax reports with the Division of Corporations, they must pay the $400 yearly tax on or before June 1st.\" \"Annual taxes are assessed if the entity is active in the records of the Division of Corporations anytime during January 1st through December 31st of the current tax year.\"", "fee_llc_usd": 400, "fee_corp_usd": null, "late_fee_usd": 200, "late_fee_note": "\"Failure to pay the required annual taxes will result in a penalty of $200.00 plus 1.5% interest per month on tax and penalty. There is no proration on alternative entity taxes.\" Confirmed for LLC/LP/GP only via the cached alt-entitytaxinstructions page; the stock/nonstock corporation franchise tax report penalty was not independently confirmed 2026-09-09 (no corp franchise tax page is in the cache, only the nav link \"File Annual Franchise Tax Report\" with no fetched content).", "source_url": "https://corp.delaware.gov/alt-entitytaxinstructions", "accessed": "2026-09-09", "note": "2026-09-09 correction: fee_llc_usd is $400/year, not the $300 previously carried in this field -- now confirmed verbatim from the cached corp.delaware.gov/alt-entitytaxinstructions page (\"they must pay the $400 yearly tax on or before June 1st\"). due_corp and fee_corp_usd (corporation franchise tax, variable by authorized-shares or assumed-par-value method) are left null rather than guessed: no stock-corporation franchise tax report page is in data/sources/delaware/, only the LLC/LP/GP alternative-entity tax page, which does not address corporations at all." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "Upon the entry of an order by the Court of Chancery enjoining a person or entity from acting as a registered agent, the Secretary of State mails notice to each affected corporation. If a domestic corporation fails to obtain and designate a new registered agent within 30 days after that notice, the Secretary shall declare the corporation's charter forfeited; if a foreign corporation, the Secretary shall forfeit its qualification to do business in the state. If no new registered agent is designated in that time, service of legal process against the corporation is thereafter made upon the Secretary of State.", "citation": "8 Del. C. § 132(f)(4); § 321", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/delaware/title-8/chapter-1/subchapter-iii/section-132/", "accessed": "2026-09-09", "note": "This is the only failure-to-maintain-a-registered-agent penalty provision present in the cache; it is framed around the specific trigger of a court-enjoined registered agent (section 132(f)), not a freestanding \"no agent for N days\" rule. No broader/general provision (e.g. under section 136 resignation, or a more general corporate-dissolution-for-no-agent statute) is in the cached pages 2026-09-09." }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "\"Every corporation shall have and maintain in this State a registered agent, which agent may be any of: (1) The corporation itself; (2) An individual resident in this State; (3) A domestic corporation (other than the corporation itself), a domestic partnership..., a domestic limited liability company or a domestic statutory trust; or (4) A foreign corporation, a foreign limited liability partnership, a foreign limited partnership, a foreign limited liability limited partnership, a foreign limited liability company or a foreign statutory trust\" authorized to transact business in the state. A registered agent that is an entity must maintain a business office in Delaware generally open, or if an individual, be generally present at a designated location in the state, at sufficiently frequent times to accept service of process; it may not perform its duties solely through a virtual office or mail-forwarding service.", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/delaware/title-8/chapter-1/subchapter-iii/section-132/", "accessed": "2026-09-09", "note": "2026-09-09: corrected from the pre-cache placeholder, which described only \"individual DE resident or domestic/foreign entity authorized to transact business\" -- the cached statute text explicitly lists the corporation itself as an allowed registered agent under 8 Del. C. section 132(a)(1), which the placeholder omitted." }, "notes": "2026-09-09 pass, fetch job cache (5 files: corp.delaware.gov/ homepage, corp.delaware.gov/agents/, corp.delaware.gov/alt-entitytaxinstructions, corpfiles.delaware.gov/corp-coa09.pdf, law.justia.com Title 8 section 132). Corrects the LLC annual tax from an unsourced $300 to a cache-verified $400 due June 1 with a $200+1.5%/mo late penalty, and corrects own_agent_allowed to include \"the corporation itself\" per the statute text. Adds corp change-of-agent fee detail (non-profit $5, extra-page $9, certified copy $50) and the Division's mailing address, all verbatim from the corp-coa09.pdf form itself. Still null and unconfirmed: LLC statute citation's verbatim quote (no LLC-title page cached), corporation franchise tax report due date/fee (no franchise-tax-report page cached, only the LLC/LP/GP alternative-entity tax page), fee_llc_usd for the LLC change-of-agent form (no LLC form page cached), and online_filing availability for a registered-agent change specifically." }, { "state": "Florida", "abbr": "FL", "slug": "florida", "filing_office": { "name": "Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations", "url": "https://dos.fl.gov/sunbiz/", "source_url": "https://form.sunbiz.org/pdf/cr2e045.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "Fla. Stat. § 605.0113", "corp_citation": "Fla. Stat. § 607.0501", "url": "https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/605.0113", "llc_quote": "Each limited liability company and each foreign limited liability company that has a certificate of authority under s. 605.0902 shall designate and continuously maintain in this state", "corp_quote": "Each corporation shall designate and continuously maintain in this state: (a) A registered office, which may be the same as its place of business in this state; and (b) A registered agent", "source_tier": "primary", "source_url": "https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/605.0113", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Both quotes confirmed via direct WebFetch of the official flsenate.gov statute pages (605.0113 for LLC, 607.0501 for corporation)." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Statement of Change of Registered Office or Registered Agent, or Both (form CR2E045 for corporations; LLCs use the LLC statement of change)", "form_url": "https://form.sunbiz.org/pdf/cr2e045.pdf", "fee_llc_usd": 25, "fee_corp_usd": 35, "online_filing": true, "note": "Fee schedule: Corporation 'Change of Registered Agent' $35.00, LLC 'Change of Registered Agent' $25.00. Mailing address from form CR2E045 cover letter. Main brain verified from cached official text 2026-09-08.", "source_url": "https://dos.fl.gov/sunbiz/forms/fees/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "online_url": "https://dos.fl.gov/sunbiz/manage-business/efile/annual-report/", "online_note": "the fastest route is the Sunbiz annual report e-file, which lets you change the registered agent and office while filing (Sunbiz annual report page: 'the annual report allows you to change the registered agent and registered office address')", "mail_to": "Division of Corporations, P.O. Box 6327, Tallahassee, FL 32314 (paper statement of change with a check payable to the Department of State)" }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Report", "due": "May 1", "due_rule": "file between January 1 and May 1; after May 1 the $400 late fee applies; not filed by the third Friday in September means administrative dissolution (Sunbiz annual report page)", "fee_llc_usd": 138.75, "fee_corp_usd": 150, "late_fee_usd": 400, "source_url": "https://dos.fl.gov/sunbiz/forms/fees/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Fee schedule: LLC Annual Report (with supplemental fee) $138.75; Profit Annual Report $150.00; received after May 1 $550.00 (= $150 + $400 late fee). Main brain verified from cached official text 2026-09-08." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "An LLC without a registered agent cannot maintain a court action in Florida until one is appointed; an entity that misses the annual report by the third Friday in September is administratively dissolved", "citation": "Fla. Stat. § 605.0113(5)", "source_tier": "primary", "source_url": "https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/605.0113", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Statute 605.0113(5) via flsenate.gov; dissolution rule from the Sunbiz annual report page (https://dos.fl.gov/sunbiz/manage-business/efile/annual-report/), main brain verified 2026-09-08" }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "an individual who resides in this state and whose business address is identical to the address of the registered office", "source_tier": "primary", "source_url": "https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/605.0113", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "notes": "" }, { "state": "Georgia", "abbr": "GA", "slug": "georgia", "filing_office": { "name": "Georgia Secretary of State, Corporations Division", "url": "https://sos.ga.gov/corporations-division-georgia-secretary-states-office", "source_url": "https://sos.ga.gov/sites/default/files/forms/Reference%20-%20Filing%20Fees_0.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "O.C.G.A. § 14-11-209", "corp_citation": "O.C.G.A. § 14-2-501", "url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2020/title-14/chapter-11/article-2/section-14-11-209/", "llc_quote": "each limited liability company shall continuously maintain in this state a registered office and registered agent", "corp_quote": null, "source_tier": "secondary", "note": "LLC quote is WebSearch-synthesized rendering of O.C.G.A. § 14-11-209(a), not independently fetched from an official source within call budget. Corporation quote (§ 14-2-501) left null: the search response only quoted three words verbatim (\"must continuously maintain\") from that section, not a full sentence, so no reliable verbatim excerpt is reported.", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2020/title-14/chapter-11/article-2/section-14-11-209/", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Amended Annual Registration (agent changes are filed with the annual or amended annual registration; Georgia has no standalone change-of-agent form)", "form_url": "https://sos.ga.gov/how-to-guide/how-file-annual-registration", "fee_llc_usd": 20, "fee_corp_usd": 20, "online_filing": true, "source_url": "https://sos.ga.gov/sites/default/files/forms/Reference%20-%20Filing%20Fees_0.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Fee schedule PDF: Amended Annual Registration $20.00; Annual Registration (profit corp, LLC) $50.00. Main brain verified from cached official text 2026-09-08.", "online_url": "https://ecorp.sos.ga.gov/", "online_note": "log in to eCorp and file the annual registration with changes, or print the form and mail it with a check or money order (sos.ga.gov how-to guide)", "mail_to": "Office of the Secretary of State, Corporations Division, 2 MLK Jr. Drive, Suite 313, Floyd West Tower, Atlanta, Georgia 30334-1530" }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Registration", "due": "April 1", "due_rule": "due by April 1 each year, may be filed from January 1 (sos.ga.gov how-to guide)", "fee_llc_usd": 50, "fee_corp_usd": 50, "late_fee_usd": 25, "source_url": "https://sos.ga.gov/sites/default/files/forms/Reference%20-%20Filing%20Fees_0.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Fee schedule PDF: Annual Registration (Profit Corp., LLC) $50.00; Penalty for Late Filing $25.00; paper filing with two-day expedited service $60.00. Main brain verified 2026-09-08." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "The LLC may be administratively dissolved if it is without a registered agent or registered office in Georgia for 60 days or more", "citation": "O.C.G.A. § 14-11-603", "source_tier": "secondary", "note": "Verbatim from O.C.G.A. 14-11-603(a)(1)(B) via Justia cache, main brain read 2026-09-08; re-read from the official Georgia code host when available", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/title-14/chapter-11/article-6/section-14-11-603/", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "eligible registered agents include Georgia resident individuals, domestic corporations, domestic LLCs, and foreign corporations/LLCs with a certificate of authority in Georgia", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2020/title-14/chapter-11/article-2/section-14-11-209/", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "notes": "" }, { "state": "Hawaii", "abbr": "HI", "slug": "hawaii", "filing_office": { "name": "Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Business Registration Division (BREG)", "url": "https://cca.hawaii.gov/breg/", "source_url": "https://cca.hawaii.gov/breg/", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "Haw. Rev. Stat. § 428-107", "corp_citation": "Haw. Rev. Stat. § 414-61", "url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/hawaii/title-23/chapter-414/section-414-61/", "quote": "Each corporation shall continuously maintain in this State a registered agent, who shall have a business address in this State and may be a foreign entity authorized to transact business or conduct affairs in this State.", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/hawaii/title-23/chapter-414/section-414-61/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Official capitol.hawaii.gov statute pages returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch; text obtained via search of the Justia mirror, so marked secondary tier. HRS ch. 425R (Registered Agents Act) also governs appointment mechanics for both entity types." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Statement of Change of Registered Agent (Form X-7)", "form_url": "https://cca.hawaii.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/X-7.pdf", "fee_llc_usd": 25, "fee_corp_usd": 25, "online_filing": true, "source_url": "https://files.hawaii.gov/dcca/breg/registration/forms/x-8-pdf.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Fee is $25 for 200 or fewer affected entities, $1/entity above that (same fee schedule applies to Form X-8). Hawaii Business Express portal supports online filing of BREG forms generally; not independently confirmed this specific form is on that portal." }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Report", "due": "end of the calendar quarter containing the entity's registration anniversary date", "due_rule": "set by DCCA/BREG administrative practice per HRS ch. 414D/428", "fee_llc_usd": 15, "fee_corp_usd": 15, "late_fee_usd": null, "source_url": "https://cca.hawaii.gov/breg/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Late fee not confirmed on an official page within call budget; a possible $100-per-30-day penalty under HRS 428-1302 was found referenced on an LLC info PDF but not independently verified, so left null." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "Administrative dissolution: if grounds for dissolution (which include failure to maintain a registered agent) are not corrected within 60 days after the director's notice, the director administratively dissolves the corporation; it continues to exist but may not carry on business except to wind up and liquidate.", "citation": "Haw. Rev. Stat. §§ 414-401, 414-402", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/hawaii/title-23/chapter-414/section-414-401/", "source_tier": "secondary", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Procedure (60-day cure, effect of dissolution) confirmed; the itemized list of grounds in 414-401 was not independently re-verified to contain 'no registered agent' as item text." }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "The registered agent must be an individual residing in Hawaii (with a business address in the state) or a domestic/foreign entity authorized to transact business in the state; the statute does not exclude an owner or officer who otherwise qualifies.", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/hawaii/title-23/chapter-414/section-414-61/", "source_tier": "secondary", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "notes": "Several official Hawaii sites (capitol.hawaii.gov, cca.hawaii.gov, files.hawaii.gov) returned HTTP 403 to direct WebFetch; facts on this row were confirmed via WebSearch summarization of those same official pages rather than a raw page fetch." }, { "state": "Idaho", "abbr": "ID", "slug": "idaho", "filing_office": { "name": "Idaho Secretary of State", "url": "https://sos.idaho.gov/", "source_url": "https://sos.idaho.gov/business-forms/", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "Idaho Code § 30-21-402", "corp_citation": "Idaho Code § 30-21-402", "url": "https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/title30/t30ch21/sect30-21-402/", "quote": "The following shall designate and maintain a registered agent in this state: (1) A domestic filing entity; (2) A domestic limited liability partnership; and (3) A registered foreign entity.", "source_url": "https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/title30/t30ch21/sect30-21-402/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Idaho uses one unified Uniform Business Organizations Code (Title 30, ch. 21, Part 4) for both LLCs and corporations, so the same citation applies to both entity types." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Change of Registered Office or Registered Agent, or Both", "form_url": "https://sos.idaho.gov/business-forms/", "fee_llc_usd": 0, "fee_corp_usd": 0, "online_filing": true, "source_url": "https://sos.idaho.gov/business-forms/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Form name, online portal, $20 paper fee (no online fee) and mailing address confirmed 2026-09-08 from the cached sos.idaho.gov/business-forms/ page and sosbiz.idaho.gov homepage.", "online_url": "https://sosbiz.idaho.gov/records/business", "online_note": "Filed free online via SOSBiz (\"Update Registered Agent\" link on sosbiz.idaho.gov); paper filing of the same form carries a $20 manual processing fee, per the cached sos.idaho.gov/business-forms/ page (\"Change a registered agent or office ... Change of Registered Office or Registered Agent, or Both $20 (manual processing fee)\").", "mail_to": "Idaho Secretary of State, Business Office, 450 N. 4th Street, Boise, ID 83702 (mailing address: P.O. Box 83720, Boise, ID 83720-0080)" }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Report", "due": "end of the anniversary month of registration, each year", "due_rule": "administrative practice per Idaho Code Title 30 ch. 21", "fee_llc_usd": 0, "fee_corp_usd": 0, "late_fee_usd": null, "source_url": "https://sos.idaho.gov/annual-report-help/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Idaho annual report has no filing fee; late fee amount not confirmed on an official page within call budget. Failure to file results in 'forfeiture' (administrative dissolution) rather than a monetary late fee, per sos.idaho.gov FAQ." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "Administrative dissolution: one ground for dissolution is failure to notify the Secretary of State within 60 days that the entity's registered agent has changed or resigned; if not cured within 60 days after notice, the Secretary of State administratively dissolves the entity.", "citation": "Idaho Code § 30-21-407; Idaho Code Title 30, ch. 21, Part 6 (Administrative Dissolution)", "source_url": "https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/Title30/T30CH21/SECT30-21-407/", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": null, "conditions": null, "source_url": null, "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "not in cached official pages 2026-09-08 (grepped all 8 cached Idaho files for 'registered agent' 2026-09-08: zero matches; cache is off-topic archived corp-forms and elections/lobbyist PDFs, not the sos.idaho.gov business-forms or SOSBiz pages the dataset's existing sources point to)" }, "notes": "Idaho's registered agent law for LLCs and corporations is unified under Title 30, Chapter 21 (Idaho Uniform Business Organizations Code). 2026-09-08 re-check: the cached data/sources/idaho/ files do not cover registered-agent content at all (they are archived Idaho SOS forms for LLC restatement, foreign registration, mailing-address change, plus elections/lobbyist PDFs). ra_statute, penalty_no_agent, filing_office, and annual_report already had source_url from a prior session and were kept unchanged; change_agent.form_name and own_agent_allowed remain null, now with an updated note. 2026-09-08 pass 2: change_agent fully filled (form name, online_url, online_note, mail_to) from cached sos.idaho.gov/business-forms/ and sosbiz.idaho.gov. own_agent_allowed re-checked against all 12 cached files (including the newly-cached legislature.idaho.gov Sect 30-21-402 and Sect 30-21-407, and sos.idaho.gov/business-forms/) 2026-09-08: none state whether an owner/officer may personally serve as the entity's own registered agent (only entity-must-have-one and place-of-business rules are in the cache, in 30-21-402); stays null. sos.idaho.gov/business/registered-agent-information/ (source_url on file 9c3169) 404s in the cache — dead link, not usable as a source." }, { "state": "Illinois", "abbr": "IL", "slug": "illinois", "filing_office": { "name": "Illinois Secretary of State, Department of Business Services", "url": "https://www.ilsos.gov/departments/business-services/home.html", "source_url": "https://www.ilsos.gov/departments/business-services/agent-change/corpagentchange.html", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "805 ILCS 180/1-35", "corp_citation": "805 ILCS 5/5.10", "url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/illinois/chapter-805/act-805-ilcs-5/article-5/", "quote": "Every domestic and foreign corporation must, at all times, maintain a registered agent with a registered office within the State of Illinois.", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.ilsos.gov/departments/business-services/agent-change/corpagentchange.html", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Corp quote drawn from ilsos.gov page content surfaced via search; exact LLC Act section number (1-35, 'registered agent and registered office') not independently re-verified within call budget." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Form LLC-1.36/1.37, Statement of Change of Registered Agent and/or Registered Office", "form_url": "https://www.ilsos.gov/content/dam/publications/pdf_publications/llc136_137.pdf", "fee_llc_usd": 25, "fee_corp_usd": 25, "online_filing": true, "source_url": "https://www.ilsos.gov/departments/business-services/agent-change/llcagentchange.html", "accessed": "2026-09-09", "note": "FILLED 2026-09-09: fee_llc_usd=$25 now confirmed from the newly-cached llcagentchange.html page: 'Non-expedited charge - $25 filing fee' / 'Expedited charge - $75 ($25 filing fee + $50 expedited fee)', payable online by credit card only, matching fee_corp_usd=$25 already on file from the BCA 5.10/5.20 form. online_url (https://apps.ilsos.gov/llcagentchange/) reconfirmed live on the same page ('File' link) and on the bare app page apps.ilsos.gov/llcagentchange (asks for the LLC file number, no separate fee text). form_url stays pointed at the LLC-1.36/1.37 PDF (from llc-instructions.html, not re-fetched this pass) since that is the actual form document; the fee itself is confirmed on the llcagentchange.html guidance page instead.", "online_url": "https://apps.ilsos.gov/llcagentchange/", "online_note": "change the registered agent or registered office online (ilsos.gov LLC page), or complete Form LLC-1.36/1.37" }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Report", "due": "before the first day of the anniversary (organization) month each year", "due_rule": "administrative practice per Business Corporation Act of 1983 / LLC Act", "fee_llc_usd": 75, "fee_corp_usd": 75, "late_fee_usd": 100, "source_url": "https://www.ilsos.gov/departments/business-services/annual-reports/llc-instructions.html", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "LLC: $100 late-filing penalty if not filed within 60 days of due date; administrative dissolution follows if not filed within 120 days of delinquency. Corp annual report fee ($75) confirmed on ilsos.gov corp-instructions page; late fee figure sourced from the LLC instructions page and not separately re-verified for corporations." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "Administrative dissolution: failure to maintain a registered agent in the state is one of the enumerated grounds for administrative dissolution; the Secretary of State sends a Notice of Delinquency and, if not corrected within 90 days, issues a certificate of dissolution.", "citation": "805 ILCS 5/12.35, 805 ILCS 5/12.40", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/illinois/2022/chapter-805/act-805-ilcs-5/article-12/", "source_tier": "secondary", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "The registered agent may be a natural person or a domestic/foreign entity authorized to transact business in Illinois; a natural-person agent's business office must be the registered office, i.e. an Illinois address.", "source_url": "https://www.ilsos.gov/departments/business-services/agent-change/corpagentchange.html", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "notes": "LLC-specific change-of-agent fee and exact LLC statute pincite left partially unconfirmed to stay within the call budget. 2026-09-09 re-check pass: 6 new/re-fetched cache files (llcagentchange.html, apps.ilsos.gov/llcagentchange, apps.ilsos.gov/corpagentchange/receipt.jsp, annual-reports.html overview, corp-instructions.html, nfp-instructions.html). llcagentchange.html filled the previously-null change_agent.fee_llc_usd=$25 (see change_agent.note). corpagentchange/receipt.jsp is a blank post-submission receipt template with no fee figure. annual-reports.html/corp-instructions.html/nfp-instructions.html confirm the online filing portals (apps.ilsos.gov/soar, /nfpannualreports, /llcarpt) and that registered-agent changes must be filed separately from the annual report, but state no new dollar figures beyond what annual_report already carries. LLC-specific statute pincite and exact corp quote source remain the open items noted previously." }, { "state": "Indiana", "abbr": "IN", "slug": "indiana", "filing_office": { "name": "Indiana Secretary of State, Business Services Division (INBiz)", "url": "https://inbiz.in.gov/", "source_url": "https://inbiz.in.gov/business-filings/business-entityreport", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "Ind. Code § 23-0.5-4-3", "corp_citation": "Ind. Code § 23-0.5-4-3", "url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/indiana/title-23/article-0-5/chapter-4/section-23-0-5-4-3/", "quote": "Every domestic filing entity must designate and continuously maintain a registered agent with a physical street address in Indiana.", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/indiana/title-23/article-0-5/chapter-4/section-23-0-5-4-3/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Indiana consolidated registered-agent law for all filing entities into Article 23-0.5, Chapter 4, so the same citation applies to LLCs and corporations." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Statement of Change of Registered Agent and/or Registered Office (State Forms 56373 and 56368)", "form_url": "https://inbiz.in.gov/", "fee_llc_usd": 1, "fee_corp_usd": 1, "online_filing": true, "source_url": "https://inbiz.in.gov/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "No statutory filing fee for this statement; only a $1.00 enhanced-access fee applies when filed electronically. Governed by Ind. Code §§ 23-0.5-4-7, 23-0.5-4-8." }, "annual_report": { "name": "Business Entity Report", "due": "by the end of the anniversary month, every second year (biennial)", "due_rule": "biennial, tied to anniversary month of formation", "fee_llc_usd": 50, "fee_corp_usd": 50, "late_fee_usd": null, "source_url": "https://inbiz.in.gov/business-filings/business-entityreport", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "$50 fee confirmed on inbiz.in.gov; a lower online fee (commonly cited as $32) appears on non-official provider pages only and was not independently confirmed on an official page, so only the $50 figure is reported. Late fee amount not confirmed within call budget. Re-checked 2026-09-08 against cached inbiz.in.gov/business-filings/business-entityreport: official page lists $32.00 on INBiz / $50.00 by Paper for for-profit businesses (and $22/$20 nonprofit), differing from the flat $50 already recorded in fee_llc_usd/fee_corp_usd; left the existing sourced fee fields unchanged per rule 1 (keep already-sourced fields) rather than overwrite, flagging the discrepancy here. No dollar late fee is stated anywhere in the cache; failure to file leads straight to administrative dissolution/revocation notices (Past Due -> Pending Administrative Dissolution -> Administrative Dissolution/Revocation), so late_fee_usd stays null." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "Failing to file a Business Entity Report (which must carry current registered-agent name and address) results in administrative dissolution of a domestic business or revocation of a foreign business's authority. Notices escalate: email reminders 90/30 days before due date, a Past Due Notice, a Pending Administrative Dissolution or Revocation notice, then an Administrative Dissolution or Revocation notice.", "citation": "Indiana Code 23-0.5-2-13 (Business Entity Report requirement)", "source_url": "https://inbiz.in.gov/business-filings/business-entityreport", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "This is the general BER failure-to-file dissolution/revocation provision, not a registered-agent-specific statute (Indiana's registered-agent chapter is Ind. Code art. 23-0.5 ch. 4, not cached). Since registered-agent name/address is required content of the BER, this is the closest cached official answer to 'what happens with no agent' for Indiana." }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": false, "conditions": "\"A business cannot serve as its own registered agent.\" The registered agent must have an Indiana address; if the business lacks one, it must hire a service company or law firm to act as agent.", "source_url": "https://inbiz.in.gov/business-filings/business-entityreport", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Cached page states the entity itself cannot be its own registered agent; it does not separately state whether an individual owner/officer can personally serve as the agent (a distinct question), so value:false answers the entity-as-own-agent question only, not an owner-as-individual-agent question." }, "notes": "Indiana Code Article 23-0.5 (adopted from the Model Registered Agents Act framework) governs registered agents uniformly for LLCs and corporations. 2026-09-08: penalty_no_agent and own_agent_allowed filled from cached inbiz.in.gov/business-filings/business-entityreport. annual_report fee discrepancy ($50 flat on file vs $32 online/$50 paper on the same cited page) flagged in annual_report.note rather than overwritten. 2026-09-08 pass 2: re-checked all 9 cached Indiana files. iga.in.gov/laws/2024/ic/titles/23 (statute page) renders as an empty JS search shell in the cache (no statute text captured) — ra_statute.corp_citation and any owner-as-individual-agent detail remain unavailable; kept existing secondary-tier Justia citation/quote unchanged. Both inbiz.in.gov RegisteredAgentInfo pages and the FeeCalculator page cache only as the INBiz login/homepage shell (JS SPA, no content). in.gov/sos/business/division-forms-and-fees page 404s in the cache. taxes-fees (out-of-state, sole-proprietorship) pages grepped for \"registered agent\": zero matches. No new fields fillable this pass; annual_report fee discrepancy ($32 INBiz / $50 paper vs the $50 flat figure on file) stands as previously flagged, not overwritten per keep-sourced-fields rule." }, { "state": "Iowa", "abbr": "IA", "slug": "iowa", "filing_office": { "name": "Iowa Secretary of State", "url": "https://sos.iowa.gov/", "source_url": "https://sos.iowa.gov/businesses/business-entity-forms-and-fees", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "Iowa Code § 489.115(1)", "corp_citation": "Iowa Code § 490.501(1)", "url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/iowa/title-xii/chapter-490/section-490-501/", "quote": "Corporations must continuously maintain a registered agent in this state; the agent's business office must be identical with the registered office.", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/iowa/title-xii/chapter-490/section-490-501/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Quote paraphrased from the search summary of the official statute rather than a raw page fetch (marked secondary). LLC requirement 'designate and maintain' one under § 489.115(1) confirmed the same way." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Change of Registered Agent or Office (Fast Track Filing)", "form_url": null, "fee_llc_usd": 0, "fee_corp_usd": 0, "online_filing": true, "source_url": "https://sos.iowa.gov/businesses/business-entity-forms-and-fees", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Filed via Fast Track Filing online system; exact standalone fee for a change-of-agent filing (as opposed to the biennial report fee) not confirmed within call budget. Fee confirmed 2026-09-08 from cached sos.iowa.gov/businesses/business-entity-forms-and-fees: \"Statement of Change - No fee* Applicable to Chapters 489, 490, 499, 501A, and 504\" (489=LLC, 490=profit corp; the *$5 exception applies only to Chapter 486A, LLP, not to LLC/corp). \"Resignation of Registered Agent - No fee\" is likewise free. Filed via Fast Track Filing (filings.sos.iowa.gov) per help.sos.iowa.gov/how-do-i-change-my-registered-agent. fasttrackfiling.iowa.gov unreachable on 2026-09-08 bank test, link removed.", "online_url": "https://sos.iowa.gov/", "online_note": " (Fast Track Filing portal link could not be reached from our checks on 2026-09-08; start at the Secretary of State site)" }, "annual_report": { "name": "Biennial Report", "due": "April 1", "due_rule": "Profit Corporations: every even-numbered year, beginning January 1 and due by April 1. LLCs, LLPs, and Nonprofit Corporations: every odd-numbered year, beginning January 1 and due by April 1.", "fee_llc_usd": 30, "fee_corp_usd": 60, "late_fee_usd": null, "source_url": "https://sos.iowa.gov/businesses/business-entity-forms-and-fees", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "LLC fee: $30 online / $45 by mail or in person, confirmed 2026-09-08 from cached sos.iowa.gov/businesses/business-entity-forms-and-fees (\"LLCs, LLPs, and Nonprofit Corporations: Every Odd numbered year beginning January 1st and due by April 1st. The fee is $30* by online filing or $45* by paper.\"). For-profit corporation: $60, even-numbered years, due April 1 (\"Profit Corporations: Every Even numbered year beginning January 1st and due by April 1st. The filing fee is $60.\"). Late fee amount not stated anywhere in the cache (grepped dissol/revoke/forfeit/penalt/delinquent/April/due across all 9 files 2026-09-08, zero hits on a dollar late-fee); late_fee_usd stays null." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "The state may begin administrative dissolution proceedings against an LLC or corporation that lacks a registered agent for 60 days or more.", "citation": "Iowa Code ch. 489, ch. 490 (administrative dissolution provisions)", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/iowa/title-xii/chapter-490/section-490-501/", "source_tier": "secondary", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Exact section number for the administrative-dissolution ground was not independently pinpointed within call budget." }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "An owner or employee of a company may act as the registered agent so long as the individual resides in Iowa, has attained the age of 18 years and has an office within the boundaries of the State of Iowa.", "source_url": "https://help.sos.iowa.gov/what-registered-agent", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "notes": "Iowa corporations follow Iowa Code ch. 490 (Business Corporations); LLCs follow ch. 489 (Revised Uniform LLC Act). 2026-09-08: change_agent fee (No fee for LLC/corp Statement of Change) and own_agent_allowed (yes, Iowa-resident owner/employee, 18+, in-state office) filled directly from cached sos.iowa.gov pages. 2026-09-08 pass 2: annual_report.due/due_rule tightened to the exact \"April 1\" date confirmed from cached sos.iowa.gov/businesses/business-entity-forms-and-fees. ra_statute: the newly-cached legis.iowa.gov PDF (489.113) is the wrong section (Reservation of Name, not Registered Agent, per its own text) — no primary statute page for 489.115/490.501 is in the cache, so ra_statute stays secondary-tier/paraphrased, unchanged. penalty_no_agent: grepped all 9 cached files for dissol/revoke/forfeit/penalt/delinquent 2026-09-08, zero hits — no cached page states an administrative-dissolution trigger or section number; stays as the existing secondary/unpinpointed citation, unchanged. change_agent and own_agent_allowed already fully sourced from prior pass, unchanged." }, { "state": "Kansas", "abbr": "KS", "slug": "kansas", "filing_office": { "name": "Kansas Secretary of State", "url": "https://sos.ks.gov/", "source_url": "https://sos.ks.gov/businesses/change-a-business.html", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "K.S.A. 17-7925", "corp_citation": "K.S.A. 17-7925", "url": "https://kslegislature.gov/li_2020/b2019_20/statute/017_000_0000_chapter/017_079_0000_article/017_079_0025_section/017_079_0025_k/", "quote": "Every resident agent for a covered entity shall: if a domestic entity, maintain a business office identical with the registered office which is generally open... to accept service of process.", "source_url": "https://kslegislature.gov/li_2020/b2019_20/statute/017_000_0000_chapter/017_079_0000_article/017_079_0025_section/017_079_0025_k/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Kansas calls the role 'resident agent'; K.S.A. 17-7925 applies to all 'covered entities' including LLCs and corporations under one citation." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Change of Resident Agent and/or Registered Office (Form ROA)", "form_url": "https://www.sos.ks.gov/forms/business_services/ROA.pdf", "fee_llc_usd": 10, "fee_corp_usd": 10, "online_filing": true, "source_url": "https://www.sos.ks.gov/forms/business_services/ROA.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Fee is $10 for for-profit corporations, LLCs, LPs, LLPs and similar entities; $0 for not-for-profit corporations. A separate RGO form ('Change to the Current Resident Agent by the Current Resident Agent', filed by the agent rather than the entity) carries a $35 single/$150 bulk fee and is a different filing from the entity-initiated ROA change." }, "annual_report": { "name": "Business Entity Information Report (Annual Report)", "due": "not later than April 15, following the close of the entity's tax period (for corporations formed in odd-numbered years, filed in each odd-numbered year)", "due_rule": "K.S.A. 17-7503/17-7508 filing-year-parity cycle", "fee_llc_usd": 50, "fee_corp_usd": 50, "late_fee_usd": 85, "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/kansas/chapter-17/article-75/section-17-7510/", "source_tier": "secondary", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Fee is $55 by paper / $50 online per search summary of official and secondary sources; $50 (online) reported here. $85 penalty fee applies when forfeiture is triggered by a late annual report." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "Forfeiture of the entity's articles of incorporation/authority to do business: failure to file the business entity information report or pay the annual report fee within 90 days of the due date works a forfeiture; a lapsed resident agent is an independent ground for forfeiture even if the report itself is filed on time.", "citation": "K.S.A. 17-7510", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/kansas/chapter-17/article-75/section-17-7510/", "source_tier": "secondary", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "If the resident agent is an individual, that individual must be generally present in Kansas at the designated location at sufficiently frequent times to accept service of process (no separate exemption or rule for owners).", "source_url": "https://kslegislature.gov/li_2020/b2019_20/statute/017_000_0000_chapter/017_079_0000_article/017_079_0025_section/017_079_0025_k/", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "notes": "Kansas uses the term 'resident agent' rather than 'registered agent'." }, { "state": "Kentucky", "abbr": "KY", "slug": "kentucky", "filing_office": { "name": "Kentucky Secretary of State", "url": "https://www.sos.ky.gov/", "source_url": "https://www.sos.ky.gov/bus/business-filings/Pages/Annual-Reports.aspx", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "KRS 14A.4-010", "corp_citation": "KRS 14A.4-010", "url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/kentucky/title-4/chapter-14a/", "quote": "Each entity and each foreign entity qualified to transact business in the Commonwealth shall continuously maintain a registered office and a registered agent whose business address is identical to that registered office.", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.lawserver.com/law/state/kentucky/ky-statutes/kentucky_statutes_14a-4-010", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Kentucky Business Entity Filing Act (KRS ch. 14A) applies the same registered-agent citation to all domestic/foreign entities including LLCs and corporations." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Statement of Change of Registered Agent and/or Registered Office (Form RAC)", "form_url": "https://www.sos.ky.gov/bus/Forms/Documents/RAC-Statment%20of%20Change%20Registered%20Agent.pdf", "fee_llc_usd": 10, "fee_corp_usd": 10, "online_filing": true, "source_url": "https://www.sos.ky.gov/bus/Forms/Documents/RAC-Statment%20of%20Change%20Registered%20Agent.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Registered agent and registered office may both be changed for the same $10 fee. mail_to and full filing instructions now readable from the re-rendered RAC form PDF (previously an unreadable compressed/embedded-font stream).", "online_url": null, "online_note": "RAC form filing instructions state \"When filing online, no copies are required. If filing via mail or in person, one exact copy of the document with the filing fee must be submitted...\" confirming online filing is available; the specific portal URL is not recoverable from the cached PDF text (hyperlink target stripped).", "mail_to": "Office of the Secretary of State, Division of Business Filings, P.O. Box 718, Frankfort, KY 40602-0718" }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Report", "due": "between January 1 and June 30 of the year following the calendar year of formation, and each year thereafter", "due_rule": "KRS ch. 14A annual filing window", "fee_llc_usd": 15, "fee_corp_usd": 15, "late_fee_usd": null, "source_url": "https://www.sos.ky.gov/bus/business-filings/Pages/Annual-Reports.aspx", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "No dollar late fee found; the consequence is administrative dissolution (domestic) or revocation of authority (foreign), per cached Annual-Reports page, if report not filed by June 30." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": null, "citation": null, "source_url": null, "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "not in cached official pages 2026-09-08 (cache covers annual-report dissolution/revocation, not failure to maintain a registered agent specifically)" }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "The registered agent shall be an individual resident of this Commonwealth, a Kentucky corporation, a Kentucky nonprofit corporation, a Kentucky limited liability company, a foreign corporation, a foreign nonprofit corporation, or a foreign limited liability company authorized to transact business in Kentucky. The company seeking formation shall not act as its own registered agent.", "source_url": "https://www.sos.ky.gov/bus/Forms/Documents/RAC-Statment%20of%20Change%20Registered%20Agent.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "An individual (e.g. a KY-resident owner) may serve as registered agent; the business entity itself may not act as its own registered agent. Confirmed 2026-09-08 from the re-rendered RAC form filing instructions, superseding the prior secondary-tier lawserver.com source." }, "notes": " 2026-09-08 pass 2: change_agent.mail_to and online_note filled, own_agent_allowed upgraded to a primary sos.ky.gov source (re-rendered RAC form PDF, previously unreadable) from the previous secondary lawserver.com citation. penalty_no_agent: apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=53211 (KRS 14A.4-010) is cached but is a raw compressed PDF stream, not text-extractable (checked 2026-09-08); Registered-Agent.aspx and Fee-Schedule.aspx both 404 in the cache. Annual-Reports.aspx (already-sourced page) discusses dissolution/revocation only for failure to file the annual report, not specifically for lacking a registered agent, so penalty_no_agent stays null. ra_statute unchanged (still secondary/lawserver.com; the official apps.legislature.ky.gov PDF remains unreadable)." }, { "state": "Louisiana", "abbr": "LA", "slug": "louisiana", "filing_office": { "name": "Louisiana Secretary of State, Commercial Division", "url": "https://www.sos.la.gov/", "source_url": "https://www.sos.la.gov/business-services/forms-fee-schedule", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "La. R.S. § 12:1308", "corp_citation": "La. R.S. § 12:104", "url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/louisiana/revised-statutes/title-12/rs-12-1308/", "quote": "A limited liability company may change its registered agent or registered office by filing a statement with the secretary of state signed by a manager, or by at least one member if management is reserved to the members.", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/louisiana/revised-statutes/title-12/rs-12-1308/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Any change of registered agent must be accompanied by a notarized affidavit of acknowledgment and acceptance signed by the new agent. Primary source attempted this pass: legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=307938 (cached) returned an 'invalid document ID' error page, no statute text available; still secondary-tier via Justia 2026-09-08." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Statement of Change - Louisiana Corporation (#502) / Change of Registered Office or Agent - Louisiana LLC (#983)", "form_url": null, "fee_llc_usd": 25, "fee_corp_usd": 25, "online_filing": true, "online_url": null, "online_note": "coraweb.sos.la.gov hosts agent accept/reject pages reached via email link (e.g. NameChange_Foreign_AgentResponse.aspx, ARAgentResponse.aspx), confirming an online CORA/geauxBIZ filing system exists, but both cached pages return only a session-redirect message with no portal landing URL or filing instructions.", "mail_to": "Louisiana Secretary of State, Commercial Division, P.O. Box 94125, Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9125", "source_url": "https://www.sos.la.gov/business-services/forms-fee-schedule", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "CORRECTED this pass: cached Forms & Fee Schedule page shows Change of Registered Office or Agent-Louisiana LLC (#983) = $25, not the $30 recorded previously (previous figure appears to have been confused with the $30 Annual Report fee). Statement of Change - Louisiana Corporation (#502) = $25, unchanged. form_url for #354 (labeled 'Nonprofit' on the fee schedule, not corporation/LLC) could not be re-verified against a #502/#983-specific PDF link in the cache; left as previously recorded since no better source_url is cached. mail_to taken from the forms-fee-schedule page footer (general Commercial Division filing address; page does not list a form-specific address). Page also states: 'Effective October 1, 2026, the fees for the Commercial Division of the Secretary of State will increase in accordance with Act 921 of the 2026 Regular Legislative Session' -- figures above are pre-increase, current as of 2026-09-08. Form 354 PDF link returned 404 on 2026-09-08 (bank test); form_url nulled until the new location is confirmed." }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Report", "due": "within 30 days of the entity's renewal (anniversary) date", "due_rule": "La. R.S. Title 12 annual filing requirement", "fee_llc_usd": 30, "fee_corp_usd": 30, "late_fee_usd": null, "source_url": "https://www.sos.la.gov/business-services/forms-fee-schedule", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "CORRECTED this pass: cached Forms & Fee Schedule page lists Annual Report = $30 (corporations and LLCs alike), not $35 as previously recorded. Previous source_url (frequently-asked-questions) is not present anywhere in the current cache for this slug (only 7 URLs are cached, listed in _map.txt; that page is not among them), so it has been replaced with the fee-schedule page that is actually cached and backs this figure. Late fee amount still not found on any cached page; reinstatement after revocation costs $75 plus $30 per delinquent annual report (Articles of Reinstatement #1444), which is a reinstatement cost, not a late fee -- stays null. note: 'not in cached official pages 2026-09-08'." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "Revocation of charter: if the entity receives a Notice of Intent to Revoke, it must file a completed annual report within 30 days of the notice (60 days for a foreign corporation/LLC); failure results in revocation of the charter, after which reinstatement fees are significantly higher than an ordinary annual report ($75 plus $30 per delinquent annual report per Articles of Reinstatement #1444).", "citation": "La. R.S. Title 12 (revocation provisions); exact section not in cache", "source_url": "https://www.sos.la.gov/business-services/forms-fee-schedule", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Previous source_url (frequently-asked-questions) is not present in the current cache for this slug -- re-pointed to the cached fee-schedule page, which only supports the reinstatement-fee figure, not the full revocation-process description carried over from the prior pass. That process description (30/60-day notice-to-revoke language) is UNVERIFIED against any page in the current cache and should be treated as unconfirmed until a statute or FAQ page is actually cached. Exact statutory citation still not in cache 2026-09-08." }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": null, "conditions": null, "note": "not in cached official pages 2026-09-08 (statute page legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=307938 is cached but returns an error page with no statute text; no SOS FAQ page addressing self-agency is cached)" }, "notes": "All registered-agent changes in Louisiana require a notarized affidavit of acknowledgment and acceptance from the new agent, attached to the change filing. The prior journal pass cited a 'frequently-asked-questions' source_url for annual_report and penalty_no_agent that is not among the 7 URLs cached for this slug (see _map.txt) -- those blocks have been re-pointed to a page that is actually cached, and the unsupported narrative detail is flagged above rather than deleted, pending a future fetch of that FAQ page. 2026-09-09 re-check pass: cache unchanged since 2026-09-08 (9 files, same fetch timestamps); grepped own registered agent|itself|self as, late|penalt|delinquen, 354|502|983 -- own_agent_allowed still not addressed anywhere in cache; late_fee_usd still not stated (only the $75+$30/report reinstatement cost, already recorded as a distinct fact); confirmed #354/#502/#354A/#983/#983A are all listed on the cached fee-schedule page but none links to a form PDF in the cached text, so change_agent.form_url stays null. 2026-09-09 re-check pass: new cache file static.sos.la.gov/shared/fee_changes_2026.pdf (fetched 2026-09-09) is the actual post-increase fee schedule referenced by the Act 921 notice already on file -- it shows the fees effective 2026-10-01: Change of Registered Office or Agent-Louisiana LLC/Corporation rises from $25 to $30, Change of Registered Office or Agent-Louisiana Nonprofit rises from $25 to $30, Annual Report (corp/LLC) rises from $30 to $35, Annual Report for Nonprofit stays $10. These are FUTURE fees (effective 2026-10-01), not yet in force as of 2026-09-09, so change_agent.fee_llc_usd/fee_corp_usd and annual_report.fee_llc_usd/fee_corp_usd are left at their current pre-increase values ($25 and $30 respectively) with source_url unchanged (forms-fee-schedule, accessed 2026-09-08); this future schedule is recorded here for the next pass to apply on/after 2026-10-01. No new information found for change_agent.form_url, annual_report.late_fee_usd, or own_agent_allowed -- the new PDF is a fee table only (no form links, no statute text); legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=307938 still returns the same 'invalid document ID' error page fetched 2026-09-08. All three remain null/unfilled as before." }, { "state": "Maine", "abbr": "ME", "slug": "maine", "filing_office": { "name": "Maine Secretary of State, Bureau of Corporations, Elections and Commissions", "url": "https://www.maine.gov/sos/", "source_url": "https://www.maine.gov/sos/corporations-commissions/corporations-business-services/make-a-change-to-an-existing-business/change-clerk-or-registered-agent-information", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "5 M.R.S. § 105 (31 M.R.S. ch. 21, LLC Act cross-reference)", "corp_citation": "5 M.R.S. § 105 (13-C M.R.S., Business Corporation Act cross-reference)", "url": "https://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/5/title5sec105.html", "quote": "A represented entity may change the information currently on file under section 105, subsection 1 by filing with the Secretary of State a statement of change signed on behalf of the entity that states the name of the entity and the information to be in effect.", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/5/title5sec108.html", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Maine adopted the Model Registered Agents Act as Title 5, ch. 6-A, applying uniformly to all entity types; a business corporation's registered agent is called its 'clerk' (13-C M.R.S.), while an LLC's is a 'registered agent' (31 M.R.S. ch. 21), but appointment/change is governed by the same 5 M.R.S. §§ 105/108. UNRESOLVED this pass: the cited source_url (title5sec108.html) is not among the 8 URLs actually cached for this slug -- it is not backed by any file in data/sources/maine/. The cache DOES now hold a genuine legislature.maine.gov statute page, https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/31/title31sec1531.html (Title 31 §1531, LLC certificate of formation), which corroborates the cross-reference by requiring a certificate of formation to include 'the information required by Title 5, section 105, subsection 1' -- consistent with, but not a direct quote of, §105/§108 itself. The exact quote above is carried over unverified from the prior pass." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Change of Clerk or Registered Agent Information (Form CLKRA3)", "form_url": "https://www.maine.gov/sos/sites/maine.gov.sos/files/inline-files/CLKRA3.pdf", "fee_llc_usd": 35, "fee_corp_usd": 35, "online_filing": true, "online_url": "https://www10.informe.org/aro/index_on.html", "online_note": "Cached 2022 SOS press release (corporate-annual-reports-2022-now-available) states online services 'include the ability for noncommercial clerks or noncommercial registered agents to change their addresses. ... Anyone wishing to make these address changes separately from the online annual report filing service can also do so online,' and gives https://www10.informe.org/aro/index_on.html as the annual-report online filing portal (same portal family). Not independently re-confirmed on a 2026-dated page as still the correct URL for an agent/clerk change specifically -- form_name/name-change may still require the CLKRA3 paper form per the change-clerk menu page.", "mail_to": null, "source_url": "https://www.maine.gov/sos/sites/maine.gov.sos/files/inline-files/CLKRA3.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "UNRESOLVED this pass: fee_llc_usd/fee_corp_usd ($35 for-profit, $15 nonprofit per the note) and form_url are NOT backed by any file in the current cache -- CLKRA3.pdf is not among the 8 cached files for this slug (see _map.txt); it is a PDF and this worker has no web access to fetch it. The cached change-clerk/agent menu page (make-a-change-to-an-existing-business/change-clerk-or-registered-agent-information) is a navigation page listing three PDF links by name only ('The Person who is the Clerk or Registered Agent on a Business? (PDF)', 'The Address of the current Clerk or Agent? (PDF)', 'The Name of the Clerk or Agent? (PDF)') with no fee text. mail_to not found on any cached page; set to null." }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Report", "due": "June 1", "due_rule": "Annual reports are due June 1 each year for all business and nonprofit entities on file with the Secretary of State's office as of December 31 of the prior year.", "fee_llc_usd": 85, "fee_corp_usd": 85, "late_fee_usd": null, "source_url": "https://www.maine.gov/sos/news/annual-reports-business-and-nonprofit-entities-are-due-june-1-1", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "CONFIRMED this pass on a properly cached primary page: 'The annual report fee is $85 for domestic business entities, $150 for foreign business entities and $35 for domestic or foreign nonprofit corporations.' (fee_llc_usd/fee_corp_usd = $85 refers to DOMESTIC entities; foreign entities pay $150 -- not separately tracked by this schema. due_rule quote is close-verbatim from the same page. Late fee: page states 'A substantial late-filing penalty will be assessed, and may not be waived, on reports received after June 1' but gives no dollar amount anywhere in the cache -- stays null. Online filing portal named in a companion cached 2022 press release: https://www10.informe.org/aro/index_on.html." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "Late penalty attaches if the June 1 annual report deadline is missed; continued failure to file, pay the late penalty, or maintain a clerk/registered agent leads the Secretary of State to administratively dissolve a domestic entity or revoke a foreign entity's authority.", "citation": "5 M.R.S. ch. 6-A (Model Registered Agents Act); Title 13-C / Title 31 dissolution provisions", "source_url": "https://www.maine.gov/sos/corporations-commissions/incorporating-resources/corporations-commissions/filing-requirement-reminders", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "STILL UNVERIFIED: the cited source_url is not among the 8 URLs cached for this slug and no cached page addresses the specific penalty for lacking a clerk/registered agent (as opposed to a late annual report). The only confirmed penalty language in cache is the annual-report late-filing penalty ('a substantial late-filing penalty will be assessed, and may not be waived, on reports received after June 1' -- source: annual-reports-business-and-nonprofit-entities-are-due-june-1-1), which is a distinct fact from this field and does not by itself establish the dissolution/revocation-for-no-agent claim above. Text and citation carried over unchanged from the prior pass but should be treated as unconfirmed pending a cached dissolution-statute or FAQ page. note: 'not in cached official pages 2026-09-08' applies to the no-agent-specific penalty." }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": null, "conditions": null, "note": "not in cached official pages 2026-09-08. The cache does show Maine's Model Registered Agents Act distinguishes a 'commercial' from a 'noncommercial' registered agent/clerk (noncommercial ones can self-service an address change online per the 2022/2026 press releases), which is suggestive that self-agency (being your own noncommercial registered agent) is structurally permitted, but no cached page states this as an explicit rule or gives residency/business-hours conditions." }, "notes": "Maine's Model Registered Agents Act (5 M.R.S. ch. 6-A) keeps the historic term 'clerk' for business corporations while using 'registered agent' for LLCs and other entities; the two roles are functionally identical. Two of the six URLs originally listed in _map.txt (Municipal and Agent Services, on www1.maine.gov and www.maine.gov) are Bureau of Motor Vehicles pages about municipal car-registration agents -- unrelated to business registered agents -- and were not used for any field. The cache newly gained a real legislature.maine.gov statute page (Title 31 §1531) this pass, which corroborates but does not replace the still-uncached §105/§108 text the ra_statute quote depends on." }, { "state": "Maryland", "abbr": "MD", "slug": "maryland", "filing_office": { "name": "Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation (SDAT)", "url": "https://dat.maryland.gov/", "source_url": "https://dat.maryland.gov/businesses/Pages/default.aspx", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "Md. Code, Corps. & Ass'ns § 4A-210", "corp_citation": "Md. Code, Corps. & Ass'ns § 2-108", "url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/maryland/corporations-and-associations/title-2/subtitle-1/section-2-108/", "quote": "Each Maryland corporation shall have a principal office in this State and a resident agent.", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/maryland/corporations-and-associations/title-2/subtitle-1/section-2-108/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Maryland calls the role 'resident agent'; LLC provision is the parallel § 4A-210 ('Principal office and resident agent'). A statute page was newly cached this pass at https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Laws/StatuteText?article=gcl§ion=4A-210, but it resolves to Commercial Law Article ('gcl') § 4A-210 -- Uniform Commercial Code Article 4A on payment-order rejection by a bank -- which is a DIFFERENT § 4A-210 entirely, not Corporations & Associations § 4A-210. The article code for Corps. & Ass'ns was evidently mis-entered ('gcl' instead of the correct article abbreviation) when this URL was queued for fetching. This page is unusable and does not upgrade the citation from secondary tier; still Justia-sourced." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Resolution to Change Principal Office or Resident Agent", "form_url": "https://dat.maryland.gov/businesses/Documents/gov_ra.pdf", "fee_llc_usd": 25, "fee_corp_usd": 25, "online_filing": true, "online_url": null, "online_note": "not in cached official pages 2026-09-08", "source_url": "https://dat.maryland.gov/pages/sdatforms.aspx", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "form_name/form_url/fee figures for gov_ra.pdf are still NOT backed by any file in the current cache -- that URL is not among the 10 cached files for this slug. UNCHANGED this pass for lack of a better source. The cache DOES fully hold a different, narrower resident-agent form this pass: 'RESIDENT AGENT'S NOTICE OF CHANGE OF ADDRESS' (dat.maryland.gov/SDAT Forms/RA-address-change.pdf, Revised August 2024) -- this is a self-service address-only change filed BY the resident agent, distinct from appointing/replacing the resident agent itself. That form directly confirms mail_to below with a properly cached primary source (previously this mail_to was only inferred 'from a related form, not independently confirmed' -- now confirmed since the cached PDF is the actual resident-agent form itself).", "mail_to": "State Department of Assessments & Taxation, 700 East Pratt Street, Suite 2700, Baltimore, MD 21202" }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Report / Personal Property Return (Form 1)", "due": "April 15", "due_rule": "Md. Code, Tax-Prop. Article annual filing requirement; a 60-day extension may be requested", "fee_llc_usd": 300, "fee_corp_usd": 300, "late_fee_usd": null, "source_url": "https://dat.maryland.gov/Documents/Accessible%20Documents/BPP%20-%20Annual%20Reports%20and%20Returns/2026%20Filings%20-%20Form%201%20Business%20Entity%20Annual%20Report_0426-A.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "CONFIRMED and re-sourced this pass on the actual cached 2026 Form 1 PDF (fee table: 'Domestic or Foreign Stock Corporation ... $300', 'Domestic or Foreign Limited Liability Company ... $300' -- $300 fee applies to LLCs, corporations, LPs, LLPs, statutory trusts, REITs; nonstock/nonprofit corporations pay $0; SDAT-certified family farms pay $100. Due date confirmed verbatim: 'Due April 15th'. Late fee: still no fixed dollar amount in the cache -- 'PENALTY CLAUSES: An entity which files an annual return postmarked after the due date of April 15th, will receive an initial penalty of 1/10 of one percent of the county assessment, plus interest at the rate of two percent of the initial penalty amount for each 30 days or part thereof that the return is late.' Stays null; formula recorded in the note as before. Previously the source_url for this block (a differently-named Form1_Instructions_2023.pdf path) was not confirmed present in cache; re-pointed to the 2026 Form 1 PDF that is actually cached and carries the fee table and penalty clause directly." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "Failure to file the Annual Report / Personal Property Return results in an estimated assessment at twice the estimated value of the entity's personal property, and 'failure to file this report will result in forfeiture of the Maryland charter or the right to do business in Maryland.' Businesses that have not filed Articles of Dissolution, an Application for Termination, a Certificate of Cancellation or a Withdrawal Notice remain legally active until they do so, or until their charter (domestic) or authority to do business (foreign) is forfeited.", "citation": "Md. Code, Tax-Prop. Article (forfeiture provisions triggered by failure to file the annual report/personal property return); exact section number not in cache. Declarations on the form are made 'pursuant to Tax-Property Article §1-201'.", "source_url": "https://dat.maryland.gov/Documents/Accessible%20Documents/BPP%20-%20Annual%20Reports%20and%20Returns/2026%20Form%201%20Instructions%20%20FINAL_0416-A.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "CONFIRMED and re-sourced this pass on cached, properly-fetched primary pages (2026 Form 1 PDF and its Instructions PDF), replacing the previous source_url (charter_legal_faq.pdf) which is not among the cached files for this slug. This is forfeiture for failure to FILE THE ANNUAL REPORT, which for a Maryland entity requires naming a resident agent on that same report -- the cache does not separately state a distinct penalty specifically for lacking/losing a resident agent outside of the annual-report-forfeiture mechanism; exact forfeiture statute section still not pinpointed in cache." }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": null, "conditions": null, "note": "not in cached official pages 2026-09-08 -- searched all 10 cached files for this slug (including the newly-added RA-address-change.pdf, Fee-Schedule.aspx (404), Annual-Report-and-Personal-Property-Return.aspx (404), and both Form 1 PDFs and instructions) for residency/qualifying-individual language; none found. No statute text page cached for Md. Code Corps. & Ass'ns § 2-108/4A-210 (the one new statute URL added this pass resolves to an unrelated Commercial Law Article § 4A-210, see ra_statute note)." }, "notes": "Maryland calls the role 'resident agent'; the $300 annual filing fee is the state's Annual Report combined with the Business Personal Property Return (Form 1), now confirmed directly on the cached 2026 Form 1 PDF. Two of the newly-added cache URLs (Fee-Schedule.aspx, Annual-Report-and-Personal-Property-Return.aspx) return SDAT's page-not-found template with no content -- both pages appear to have been retired/renamed on dat.maryland.gov. The newly-added mgaleg.maryland.gov statute URL points to the wrong article (Commercial Law, not Corporations & Associations) and did not help upgrade ra_statute to primary tier." }, { "state": "Massachusetts", "abbr": "MA", "slug": "massachusetts", "filing_office": { "name": "Secretary of the Commonwealth, Corporations Division", "url": "https://www.sec.state.ma.us/divisions/corporations/corporations.htm", "source_url": "https://www.sec.state.ma.us/divisions/corporations/corporations.htm", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "RESOLVED this pass: corporations.htm is now cached with full content via firecrawl (previously index.htm returned nothing to WebFetch and this block was WebSearch-corroborated only). Contact block confirmed verbatim: 'Corporations Division, One Ashburton Place, Corporations Division, Boston, MA 02108', 617-727-9640, corpinfo@sec.state.ma.us." }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "M.G.L. c. 156C, § 5", "corp_citation": "M.G.L. c. 156D, § 5.01", "url": "https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXXII/Chapter156C/Section5", "quote": "Each limited liability company shall have and maintain in the commonwealth: (1) an office ... and (2) a resident agent for service of process on the limited liability company, which agent must be an individual resident of the commonwealth, a domestic corporation, or a foreign corporation authorized to do business in the commonwealth.", "source_tier": "primary", "note": "RESOLVED this pass: malegislature.gov, previously connection-refused to WebFetch, is now cached in full via firecrawl -- this is a direct, verbatim primary-source quote of M.G.L. c. 156C § 5 ('Office and agent for service of process in commonwealth'), no longer withheld/secondary. Trimmed to the operative sentence (schema caps quotes at ~40 words; full section is longer). corp_citation (M.G.L. c. 156D § 5.01) is the parallel Business Corporation Act provision but is NOT itself cached this pass -- only the LLC statute (c. 156C § 5) was fetched; corp_citation number is carried over unverified.", "source_url": "https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXXII/Chapter156C/Section5", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Statement of Change of Resident Agent/Resident Office (LLC form CFDLLCAGENTOFFICE); corporations file a separate Certificate of Appointment of Resident Agent", "form_url": "https://www.sec.state.ma.us/divisions/corporations/download/c156cfdllcagentoffice.pdf", "fee_llc_usd": 25, "fee_corp_usd": 25, "online_filing": true, "source_url": "https://www.sec.state.ma.us/divisions/corporations/general-information/corporations-filing-fees.htm", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "RECONFIRMED this pass on two cached primary sources: the filing-fees page ('Foreign / Domestic Change of Resident Agent / Office: Paper or Fax: $25.00 (no fee if filed electronically)') and the LLC form PDF itself (c156cfdllcagentoffice.pdf), now fully cached, which states on its face 'Filing fee: $25 for paper or fax filings. No fee if filed electronically.' and cites 'General Laws Chapter 156C Section 5A and Section 51.' fee_llc_usd/fee_corp_usd both $25 (paper/fax); $0 if e-filed, tracked in online_note.", "online_url": "https://corp.sec.state.ma.us/corpweb/loginsystem/externallogin.aspx", "online_note": "'File Online' link confirmed on the cached corporations.htm menu page: https://corp.sec.state.ma.us/corpweb/loginsystem/externallogin.aspx. Filing fee is $0 (no fee) if filed electronically vs. $25 paper/fax, per both the filing-fees page and the form PDF.", "mail_to": "Secretary of the Commonwealth, Corporations Division, One Ashburton Place, Room 1717, Boston, Massachusetts 02108-1512 (checks payable to Commonwealth of Massachusetts)" }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Report", "due": null, "due_rule": null, "fee_llc_usd": 500, "fee_corp_usd": 125, "late_fee_usd": 150, "source_url": "https://www.sec.state.ma.us/divisions/corporations/general-information/corporations-filing-fees.htm", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "RECONFIRMED this pass on the cached filing-fees page: Domestic Profit Corporation Annual Report 'Annual Report $125.00; $150 if not filed timely ($100 if filed electronically)'; Domestic LLC 'Annual Report $500.00' (Foreign LLC Annual Report also $500.00, $450 if filed electronically -- not separately tracked by this schema). Due date/due_rule STILL not stated on the fee schedule page. annual-report.htm, newly added to the cache this pass, returns a 404 ('File or directory not found'). Four Secretary of the Commonwealth 'SOC Annual Report FY20xx' PDFs are also cached for this slug but are the agency's OWN fiscal-year report to the legislature (an unrelated document that happens to share the search term 'annual report') -- checked and confirmed irrelevant to business-entity annual report due dates. due/due_rule stay null: 'not in cached official pages 2026-09-08'." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": null, "citation": null, "source_url": null, "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "not in cached official pages 2026-09-08 (cache covers the filing-fee schedule, the LLC resident-agent-change form, the corporations.htm menu page, the LLC statute on office/agent maintenance (c. 156C §5, which states the requirement but not the penalty for failing it), securities/RICE broker-dealer pages, and four unrelated SOC agency fiscal-year reports; no dissolution/revocation-trigger statute text is cached for this slug)" }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "For an LLC, the resident agent 'must be an individual resident of the commonwealth, a domestic corporation, or a foreign corporation authorized to do business in the commonwealth' (M.G.L. c. 156C § 5(2)). So an LLC member/manager may serve as the company's own resident agent if that individual is a Massachusetts resident.", "source_url": "https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXXII/Chapter156C/Section5", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "FILLED this pass from the newly-cached primary statute page (M.G.L. c. 156C § 5), LLC-side only. Value/conditions verified for LLCs; the parallel corporate provision (M.G.L. c. 156D § 5.01) is not cached this pass, so the corporation-side residency/qualifying-individual rule is assumed similar but unconfirmed." }, "notes": "This pass resolved the two biggest gaps from the prior journal: malegislature.gov and sec.state.ma.us/divisions/corporations/corporations.htm are now both fully cached via firecrawl (previously connection-refused / empty to WebFetch), upgrading ra_statute from secondary/no-quote to a primary verbatim quote and filling own_agent_allowed for LLCs for the first time. Four cached 'SOC-Annual-Report-FY20xx.pdf' files and two securities/RICE pages in this slug's cache are distractors -- the Secretary's own agency fiscal-year reports and broker-dealer/investment-adviser registration pages, unrelated to business-entity registered agents -- and were checked and ruled out rather than skipped blind. annual_report due date remains the one material gap: the only page that would carry it (annual-report.htm) 404s." }, { "state": "Michigan", "abbr": "MI", "slug": "michigan", "filing_office": { "name": "Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA), Corporations, Securities & Commercial Licensing Bureau (CSCL)", "url": "https://www.michigan.gov/lara/bureau-list/cscl/corps/corporations/filing/resident-agent-and-registered-office", "source_url": "https://www.michigan.gov/lara/bureau-list/cscl/corps/corporations/filing/resident-agent-and-registered-office", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "MCL 450.4207", "corp_citation": null, "url": "https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-450-4207", "quote": "The resident agent may be either an individual resident in this state whose business office or residence is identical with the registered office or any of the following having a business office identical with the registered office.", "source_tier": "primary", "source_url": "https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-450-4207", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "FILLED this pass: legislature.mi.gov is now cached in full (MCL 450.4207, Michigan LLC Act, 'Maintaining registered office and resident agent'). llc_citation and the verbatim quote are now a direct primary-source read, not just the LARA plain-language summary. corp_citation still null -- the parallel Business Corporation Act provision (analogous section governing resident agent for corporations) was not fetched from legislature.mi.gov this pass; the cached forms/corporations-division-related-statutes page only names the governing acts (1993 PA 23 for LLCs, 1972 PA 284 for corporations) without a section number." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Certificate of Change of Registered Office/Resident Agent (Form 520)", "form_url": null, "fee_llc_usd": null, "fee_corp_usd": 5, "online_filing": true, "online_url": "https://mibusinessregistry.lara.state.mi.us/", "online_note": "Domestic Profit and Professional Corporations filing-fees table lists Form 520, 'Certificate of Change of Registered Office/Resident Agent', fee $5.00, Submit Online = Yes; related forms on the same table: Form 521 'Resignation of Resident Agent' (No Fee, Yes online) and Form 522 'Certificate of Appointment of Resident Agent' ($5.00, Yes online). MiBusiness Registry Portal (MiBRP) is the online filing system per the previously-cached Annual Reports page.", "mail_to": null, "source_url": "https://www.michigan.gov/lara/bureau-list/cscl/corps/filing-fees/domestic-profit-professional", "accessed": "2026-09-09", "note": "FILLED this pass: fee_corp_usd=$5 and online_filing=true now confirmed from the newly-cached LARA filing-fees table (Domestic Profit and Professional Corporations), which lists Form 520 by name, number, and fee. fee_llc_usd stays null -- this fee table is titled 'Domestic Profit and Professional Corporations' only; no equivalent LLC-specific filing-fees page (e.g. a domestic-llc filing-fees table) is in the 11 cached files for this slug, and the general Annual Reports/Annual Statements page (already cached) does not give a standalone dollar figure for a mid-year LLC resident-agent change outside the annual filing. form_url and mail_to stay null -- the fee table gives the form number/name/fee only, no hyperlink to the form PDF itself and no mailing address; also checked the newly-cached corporations-division-policy-statements page (b651c20c50f4280b.md), which lists policy-statement titles/links only (e.g. C-22 Assessment of Penalty Fees, C-67 Late Submission of Profit Corporation Annual Reports) with no dollar figures or addresses in the cached text. Newly-cached registered-agent-and-registered-office page (06a2e2fd883f0c7a.md) is about foreign LLP registered agents specifically and adds no new fee/form/mail_to fact." }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Report (Corporations, Professional Corporations, Nonprofit Corporations) / Annual Statement (LLCs, PLLCs)", "due": "LLC/PLLC: February 15 each year after organization/qualification. Profit/Professional Corporations: May 15 each year after incorporation/qualification. Nonprofit Corporations: October 1 each year after incorporation/qualification.", "due_rule": "If the limited liability company is formed/qualified after September 30, it is not required to file an annual statement on February 15 of the year immediately succeeding its formation.", "fee_llc_usd": 25, "fee_corp_usd": 25, "late_fee_usd": 50, "source_url": "https://www.michigan.gov/lara/bureau-list/cscl/corps/michigan-business-roadmap/annual-reports-and-annual-statements", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "PLLC fee is $75 (not $25) with the same $50 penalty if late; Nonprofit fee is $20; corporation late fee is tiered by how late ($10 for May 16-31 up to $50 from Sept 1 on), simplified here to the top tier of $50 to match the single late_fee_usd field -- see notes. RECONFIRMED this pass: MCL 450.4207(3) (now cached, primary) independently confirms the February 15 LLC due date and the same September-30 formed-late exception verbatim: 'The statement shall be filed not later than February 15 of each year, except that a limited liability company formed after September 30 ... need not file a statement on the February 15 immediately succeeding its formation.' Online portal confirmed: MiBusiness Registry Portal (MiBRP), https://mibusinessregistry.lara.state.mi.us/. Corporation late-fee tier list and the $10/$20/$30/$40/$50 schedule also independently corroborated by the cached annual_report_penalty_waiver.pdf, which cites the statutory basis for the corporate penalty as 'Section 921(1)' of the Michigan Business Corporation Act (Act 284, P.A. of 1972), with waiver authority under 'Section 921(3)' -- useful citation material not previously in the journal, though not itself the resident-agent statute." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "LLC (MCL 450.4207(4), primary, cached this pass): 'If a limited liability company fails to appoint or maintain an agent for service of process, or the agent for service of process cannot be found or served through the exercise of reasonable diligence, service of process may be made by delivering or mailing by registered mail to the administrator a summons and copy of the complaint.' Separately, for all entity types, failing to file the annual report/statement (which carries the resident agent's name and address) results in dissolution, revocation, or loss of good-standing status after a two-year grace period (one year for foreign corporations), per the cached Annual Reports and Annual Statements page.", "citation": "MCL 450.4207(4) (LLC Act, service on the administrator when no agent can be found/served); annual-report-failure consequence citation not pinpointed beyond the LARA plain-language page", "source_url": "https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-450-4207", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "FILLED this pass from the newly-cached primary LLC statute (MCL 450.4207(4)), which is specifically about lacking/unreachable a registered agent (not just a late annual report). The dissolution/revocation/good-standing consequence is a related but distinct fact (failure to file the annual report generally) carried over from the LARA Annual Reports page, included for completeness since the two triggers overlap in practice (the agent's info is filed via that same annual report). Corporation-side equivalent to MCL 450.4207(4) not cached this pass." }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "For profit and professional service corporations and for LLCs, the resident agent may be an individual resident in Michigan whose business office or residence is identical with the registered office; or a domestic or foreign corporation/LLC authorized to transact business in Michigan with a business office identical with the registered office. The Annual Reports page separately states 'a business cannot serve as its own resident agent.' MCL 450.4207(1)(b) (LLC Act, now cached primary) confirms this for LLCs verbatim: 'The resident agent may be either an individual resident in this state whose business office or residence is identical with the registered office or any of the following having a business office identical with the registered office: (i) A domestic corporation. (ii) A foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state. (iii) A domestic limited liability company. (iv) A foreign limited liability company authorized to transact business in this state.'", "source_url": "https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-450-4207", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "RECONFIRMED this pass on the newly-cached primary LLC statute (MCL 450.4207(1)(b)), upgrading the source from the LARA plain-language page to the actual statute text." }, "notes": "Corporation annual-report late fee is tiered: $10 (May 16-31), $20 (June), $30 (July), $40 (Aug), $50 (Sept 1 on) -- only the top tier is recorded in late_fee_usd. PLLC annual fee is $75, Nonprofit is $20, vs. $25 for LLC/for-profit corp. This pass added a genuine legislature.mi.gov statute page to the cache (MCL 450.4207), which filled llc_citation, the ra_statute quote, own_agent_allowed's statutory backing, and penalty_no_agent for LLCs. Still null/unresolved: corp_citation (no parallel Business Corporation Act section number cached), and change_agent (form_name/form_url/fees/mail_to) -- no standalone change-of-registered-agent form or mailing address appears anywhere in the 10 cached pages for this slug; two of those pages (corps/fees and the MiCLEAR annual-report-amendment how-to) returned a 404 or turned out to be for an unrelated licensing system, and the securities-agents page is about broker-dealer agent registration, not corporate registered agents. 2026-09-09 re-check pass: cache unchanged since 2026-09-08 (10 files, same fetch timestamps); confirmed corps/fees page (f29812429c330c72.md) is a 404, and corporations-division-related-statutes lists only the Business Corporation Act's public-act number (1972 PA 284) with no MCL section pincite, so ra_statute.corp_citation stays null; grepped change of registered|statement of change|change.*agent, no standalone corporation-side change-of-agent form/fee/mailing address found anywhere in cache, so change_agent stays fully null. 2026-09-09 re-check pass: 3 new cache files added (registered-agent-and-registered-office for LLPs, domestic-profit-professional filing fees, corporations-division-policy-statements). The filing-fees table filled change_agent.fee_corp_usd=$5 and online_filing=true via Form 520 (previously fully null); fee_llc_usd, form_url and mail_to remain null -- no LLC-specific fee table or form-PDF hyperlink is in the cache. corp_citation and a standalone LLC change-of-agent fee/form are still the two biggest gaps for this slug." }, { "state": "Minnesota", "abbr": "MN", "slug": "minnesota", "filing_office": { "name": "Minnesota Secretary of State, Business Services", "url": "https://www.sos.mn.gov/business-liens/business-forms-fees/minnesota-business-corporation-forms", "source_url": "https://www.sos.mn.gov/business-liens/business-forms-fees/minnesota-business-corporation-forms", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "Minn. Stat. § 322C.0113", "corp_citation": "Minn. Stat. § 5.36", "url": "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/322C.0113", "quote": "Every limited liability company shall have a registered office and may have a registered agent, in the manner prescribed by section 5.36.", "source_tier": "primary", "source_url": "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/322C.0113", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "FILLED this pass: revisor.mn.gov is now cached in full (previously not in cache at all). Minn. Stat. § 322C.0113 ('Office and Agent for Service of Process') is notably permissive: an LLC 'shall have a registered office' (mandatory) but 'may have a registered agent' (optional) -- a registered agent is not itself mandatory for a Minnesota LLC, only the registered office is. Section 322C.0113 itself defers the actual agent rules to Minn. Stat. § 5.36 (the general business-entity registered-agent statute in the Corporations chapter, used generically across entity types including corporations), which is why corp_citation is set to § 5.36 -- this is a cross-reference inferred from the statute text and the cached Change of Registered Office/Agent form (which cites 'Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 5.36' as its governing authority), not from independently fetching § 5.36 itself; § 5.36's own text is not in the cache." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Notice of Change of Registered Office/Registered Agent", "form_url": "https://www.sos.mn.gov/media/1382/changeofregisteredofficeagent.pdf", "fee_llc_usd": 35, "fee_corp_usd": 35, "online_filing": true, "online_url": "https://www.sos.mn.gov", "online_note": "'File your business document online by visiting our website at www.sos.mn.gov.' The form PDF does not give a deeper direct link to the online filing system (link text on the corp-forms page just reads 'Go here to use our online system' with the underlying URL not captured in plain-text extraction), so only the general domain is recorded; no dedicated e-filing subdomain/portal URL is in the cache.", "mail_to": "Minnesota Secretary of State-Business Services, First National Bank Building, 332 Minnesota Street, Suite N201, Saint Paul, MN 55101", "source_url": "https://www.sos.mn.gov/media/1382/changeofregisteredofficeagent.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "RESOLVED this pass: the form PDF, previously corrupted/garbled in the cache, is now fully readable via firecrawl. Filing fee schedule confirmed verbatim: 'Minnesota Business Corporations, Minnesota Cooperatives, and Minnesota and Foreign Limited Liability Companies: $55 for expedited service in-person and online filings, $35 if submitted by mail.' fee_llc_usd/fee_corp_usd are set to $35 (the base/mail fee) since the schema has one field per entity type; the $55 expedited/online fee is the alternative, recorded here. Nonprofit corporations: no fee unless adding/removing/changing the agent (then same $55/$35 split); foreign corporations/cooperatives/nonprofits: $70/$50. mail_to now directly confirmed on the form itself (previously inferred without a readable source). Form also states: 'the address of the registered office and the address of the business office of the registered agent(s) are identical' is required, and this specific form 'cannot be used for Domestic and Foreign Limited Partnerships or Limited Liability Partnerships.'" }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Renewal", "due": null, "due_rule": "file your annual renewal once every calendar year", "fee_llc_usd": 0, "fee_corp_usd": 0, "late_fee_usd": null, "source_url": "https://www.sos.mn.gov/business-liens/business-forms-fees/minnesota-business-corporation-forms", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "STILL UNRESOLVED: 'There is no fee for filing the annual renewal if the entity is active and in good standing. An entity that has been dissolved by our office for failure to file an annual renewal, may retroactively reinstate its existence by filing the current year's renewal and pay the applicable fee' (reinstatement fee amount still not stated). due date beyond 'once every calendar year' STILL not in cache -- the two pages most likely to state a specific due date (business-liens/business-help/annual-renewals/ and the LLC-specific forms page) both still return a Radware CAPTCHA block page in this pass' cache, same as before. Distinct from the general annual renewal: the cached corp-forms page also newly shows a Public Benefit Corporation annual Benefit Report is due 'between January 1st and March 31st' with 'revocation of the corporation's public benefit status' if missed (Minn. Stat. § 304A.301) -- this is a narrower, separate filing (public-benefit corps only) and not used to fill the general due/due_rule fields, which stay null/unchanged: 'not in cached official pages 2026-09-08'." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "Minnesota does not appear to require an LLC to maintain a registered agent at all: Minn. Stat. § 322C.0113 states an LLC 'shall have a registered office' but only 'may have a registered agent' -- registered office is mandatory, a registered agent is optional. Consistent with this, the state's own Change of Registered Office/Agent form instructs filers who do not want to designate an agent to 'list \"NONE\" in this box' rather than treating a missing agent as a defect. The consequence the cache DOES confirm is for failing to file the Annual Renewal (which is a separate act from lacking an agent): an entity can be administratively dissolved by the Secretary of State's office for failure to file an annual renewal, and may later retroactively reinstate by filing the current year's renewal and paying the applicable fee.", "citation": "Minn. Stat. § 322C.0113 (registered agent is optional for LLCs); annual-renewal dissolution citation not pinpointed beyond the plain-language corp-forms page", "source_url": "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/322C.0113", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "FILLED this pass using the newly-cached statute and the newly-readable change-of-agent form. This is a genuinely different answer from most states in this dataset: Minnesota's cache does not describe a penalty for lacking a registered agent because, for LLCs at least, having one is not mandatory in the first place -- only the registered office is. Whether the same 'may have' framing applies to corporations (vs. LLCs) is unconfirmed since § 5.36 itself (the cross-referenced general/corporate provision) is not in the cache." }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "If designating a registered agent, it must be a person residing in Minnesota, a Minnesota entity, or a foreign entity authorized to do business in Minnesota. The entity itself may NOT be listed as its own agent on the change form: 'Do not list your entity name on this line, because an entity may not act as its own agent' -- so a business cannot name itself, but an individual associated with the business (e.g. an owner or officer) who resides in Minnesota may serve as its registered agent.", "source_url": "https://www.sos.mn.gov/media/1382/changeofregisteredofficeagent.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "REFINED this pass: the previous pass's conditions text (person residing in MN / MN entity / authorized foreign entity) is confirmed, and this pass adds the explicit 'an entity may not act as its own agent' instruction, now readable directly on the form PDF itself (previously corrupted in cache) rather than only the business-corporation-forms page." }, "notes": "This pass added a real revisor.mn.gov statute page to the cache (Minn. Stat. § 322C.0113) and fixed the previously-corrupted Change of Registered Office/Agent PDF (now fully readable via firecrawl), which together filled ra_statute, change_agent's fee/mail_to/form_name, own_agent_allowed's detail, and penalty_no_agent. Minnesota's registered agent is legally OPTIONAL for LLCs (only the registered office is mandatory) per § 322C.0113 -- a notable state-specific fact worth surfacing on the page copy. Five of the eleven cached pages for this slug (LLC forms page, boards-commissions annual-report page, both public-benefit-corporation-annual-report pages, and business-liens/business-help/annual-renewals/) still return a Radware bot-block/CAPTCHA page instead of content -- unchanged from the prior pass -- so the specific annual-renewal due date (beyond 'once every calendar year') remains the one clear gap. The two other cached PDFs (sos.mn.gov's own annual-report-2025.pdf, an agency report to the legislature, and the absentee-ballot signature-envelope PDF) are confirmed distractors unrelated to business registered agents.", "agent_required": { "value": false, "text": "Minnesota requires every LLC to keep a registered office in Minnesota; a registered agent is optional for LLCs (Minn. Stat. 322C.0113: 'Every limited liability company shall have a registered office and may have a registered agent'). Corporations name a registered agent under chapter 302A.", "source_url": "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/322C.0113", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Main brain verified verbatim from cached revisor.mn.gov text 2026-09-08" } }, { "state": "Mississippi", "abbr": "MS", "slug": "mississippi", "filing_office": { "name": "Mississippi Secretary of State, Business Services", "url": "https://www.sos.ms.gov/business-services-external-affairs/registered-agents", "source_url": "https://www.sos.ms.gov/business-services-external-affairs/registered-agents", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "Miss. Code Ann. § 79-35-3", "corp_citation": "Miss. Code Ann. § 79-35-3", "url": null, "quote": "The Mississippi Registered Agents Act (Mississippi Code Annotated §79–35–3) is effective January 1, 2013.", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.sos.ms.gov/business-services-external-affairs/registered-agents", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "the Mississippi Registered Agents Act is described as a single unified statute applying to registered agents of all Mississippi business entities; citation and quote come from the Secretary of State page, not a legislature.ms.gov statute text page, so marked source_tier secondary and no direct statute url is set (not in cached official pages 2026-09-08)" }, "change_agent": { "form_name": null, "form_url": null, "fee_llc_usd": null, "fee_corp_usd": null, "online_filing": null, "online_url": null, "online_note": null, "mail_to": null, "source_url": "https://www.sos.ms.gov/business-services-external-affairs/registered-agents", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "cached page states 'the same forms are used for naming, amending or terminating registered agents regardless of type. Those forms are found with all of the other business forms on the Business Services page' but does not name the form, give its number/URL, or state a fee; that general business-forms page is not in the cache. The only registered-agent fees in cache are for Commercial Registered Agent status itself: $100 to file the Commercial Registered Agent Listing Statement, $50 to file the Commercial Registered Agent Termination Statement -- these are not the fee for an ordinary company changing its registered agent, so left out of fee_llc_usd/fee_corp_usd" }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Report", "due": "For-profit corporations and LLCs: April 15. Nonprofit corporations: May 15.", "due_rule": "may be filed any time on or after January 1st of each year and are due by April 15th of that year (nonprofits: due by May 15th)", "fee_llc_usd": null, "fee_corp_usd": null, "late_fee_usd": null, "source_url": "http://www.sos.ms.gov/business-services/annual-reports", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "all annual reports must be filed online through the Secretary of State corporate portal (https://corp.sos.ms.gov/corp/portal/c/portal.aspx); fee amount and late fee amount not in cached official pages 2026-09-08" }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": null, "citation": null, "source_url": null, "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "not in cached official pages 2026-09-08; the annual-reports page states 'Failure to file the Annual Report may result in the administrative dissolution of the organization,' which is a related but distinct penalty (missed annual report, not specifically a missing registered agent)" }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "Any individual, corporation or LLC may act as registered agent for any Mississippi company provided the agent has a physical address in the state of Mississippi.", "source_url": "https://www.sos.ms.gov/business-services-external-affairs/registered-agents", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "notes": "Mississippi distinguishes Commercial Registered Agents (must list with the Secretary of State, $100 fee, listed publicly, must file a Statement of Non-acceptance within 14 days if declining an appointment or a $50 Termination Statement to stop acting) from Noncommercial Registered Agents (any individual/corporation/LLC with a Mississippi physical address, not publicly listed, must give prior permission before being named). Online annual-report filing portal: https://corp.sos.ms.gov/corp/portal/c/portal.aspx. Several cached MS pages (notary, athlete-agent, preneed-establishment, trustee-report) were unrelated to registered agents and not used. 2026-09-09 re-check pass: cache unchanged since 2026-09-08 (11 files, same fetch timestamps); re-read the registered-agents page and annual-reports pages in full -- confirmed the only forms named for an ordinary (noncommercial) change of registered agent are the unnamed 'other business forms on the Business Services page' (that directory page itself is not cached), so change_agent stays fully null; confirmed annual_report fee amounts are not stated on either cached annual-reports page (only the online portal link and due dates), so fee_llc_usd/fee_corp_usd/late_fee_usd stay null; confirmed cb2486c71191a00c.md (Justia MS Code 79-29-113) is a repealed, unrelated LLC Act section, not the Registered Agents Act -- does not supply ra_statute.url. 2026-09-09 re-check pass: 6 new cache files (fees-forms-directory, registered-agents page re-fetched, FY21/FY22 SOS Annual Report PDFs, PreNeed Registration Instructions PDF, and a file named MisleadingCFSAnnualReportMailer_2021_Redacted.pdf). fees-forms-directory lists 21 forms -- all notary/preneed/trademark/athlete-agent, none is the standard entity change-of-registered-agent form, confirming change_agent stays fully null (the page itself says that form is 'found with all of the other business forms on the Business Services page', which is not cached). The two SOS Annual Report PDFs (FY21, FY22) give only aggregate agency fee revenue by category (e.g. 'Corporations $3,520,018', 'LLC Annual Reports $4,285,250'), not a per-entity dollar figure, so annual_report.fee_llc_usd/fee_corp_usd/late_fee_usd stay null. PreNeed Registration Instructions PDF is unrelated (preneed funeral establishments). MisleadingCFSAnnualReportMailer_2021_Redacted.pdf is explicitly SOS's own labeled example of a deceptive third-party solicitation (C.F.S., a private company, charging $75 to do what the state offers free) -- although it reproduces a Miss. Code Ann. section 79-29-215 citation, it is not used as a source for any field here per source-authority rules (never source facts from a document the issuing agency itself flags as misleading), even though it is hosted on sos.ms.gov. No fields filled this pass; all previously-null fields (change_agent block, penalty_no_agent, annual_report fees) remain not in cached official pages 2026-09-09." }, { "state": "Missouri", "abbr": "MO", "slug": "missouri", "filing_office": { "name": "Missouri Secretary of State, Business Services", "url": "https://www.sos.mo.gov/business", "source_url": "https://www.sos.mo.gov/business/faqs", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "RSMo § 347.030", "corp_citation": null, "url": "https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=347.030", "quote": "A registered agent for service of any process, notice or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon the limited liability company, which agent may be either an individual, resident of this state, whose business office is identical with such registered office, or a domestic or foreign corporation authorized to do business in this state.", "source_url": "https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=347.030", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "LLC citation and quote now sourced from the Missouri Revisor of Statutes text (RSMo 347.030, 'Maintenance of office and agent for service of process'), cached this pass. corp_citation (Chapter 351, General and Business Corporation Law) is not in the cache -- the corporations/fees and corporations/forms pages both returned 403/404 -- not in cached official pages 2026-09-08" }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Acceptance of Appointment and Consent to Serve as Registered Agent", "form_url": "https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/Business/ConsentToAppointmentRegisteredAgent_06_2026.pdf", "fee_llc_usd": 10, "fee_corp_usd": 10, "online_filing": true, "online_url": "https://bsd.sos.mo.gov/", "online_note": "If changing the registered agent a letter of consent must be uploaded. The letter of consent is a statement from the new Registered Agent signed and stating they consent to being the Registered Agent. The new registered agent must consent to his appointment in writing, and such written consent must accompany the filing of a statement of change of the registered agent.", "mail_to": "Secretary of State, Corporations Division, PO Box 778, Jefferson City, MO 65102 (physical/express deliveries: Missouri State Information Center, 600 W. Main St., Jefferson City, MO 65101)", "source_url": "https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/Business/fees.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "This pass re-fetched-cache-read the fees.pdf file directly: it returns status 200 with usable text, not the HTTP 403 the prior journal pass recorded. General Fees table: 'Change of Registered Agent / Office Address / or both ..... Limited Liability Partnership see below; all others 10.00' -- applied to both LLC and general business corporation since 'all others' excludes only Limited Liability Partnerships (whose own amount is not present in the cached extract). mail_to is the PO Box 778 filing address given on the same PDF page. form_name/form_url is the separately cached Acceptance of Appointment PDF (unchanged); online_filing/online_url/online_note (bsd.sos.mo.gov portal, consent-letter upload requirement) remain sourced from sos.mo.gov/business/faqs and sos.mo.gov/fileonline/reports." }, "annual_report": { "name": "Registration Report (Annual or Biennial)", "due": "last day of the month four months from the entity's renewal month", "due_rule": "General and Business For-Profit Corporations may change the month in which the registration report is due by changing the renewal month when filing a current registration report; the report is due on the last day of the month four months from the renewal month (example given: renewal month of May means the report is due by the end of August). A corporation incorporated in an even-numbered year may elect to file biennially in even-numbered years (odd-incorporated in odd years).", "fee_llc_usd": null, "fee_corp_usd": null, "late_fee_usd": null, "source_url": "https://www.sos.mo.gov/business/faqs", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Limited liability companies do NOT file an annual report in Missouri ('Do limited liability companies have to file an annual report? No.'), so fee_llc_usd is not applicable rather than unknown; corporation report fee and any late fee were not in the cache (Fees & Forms page and fees.pdf both returned HTTP 403). Filing online saves $25/year versus paper for a general business corporate registration report." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "When a corporation fails to timely file an annual report, fails to maintain a registered agent, its duration expires or in several other situations, the Secretary of State may administratively dissolve that corporation.", "citation": null, "source_url": "https://www.sos.mo.gov/business/faqs", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "the FAQ states the Secretary's dissolution authority 'is granted by statute' but does not cite the specific RSMo section; citation left null, not in cached official pages 2026-09-08" }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "An agent may be either an individual who is a resident of Missouri and whose business office is identical with the entity's registered office, or it may be a corporation authorized to transact business in Missouri and which has a business office identical with the entity's registered office.", "source_url": "https://www.sos.mo.gov/business/faqs", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "notes": "A PO Box may be listed as the registered office address only if a physical street address in the same city is also listed; a retail mailing store address (e.g. Mailboxes Etc., UPS Store) may not be used as the registered office. sos.mo.gov/business/corporations/annualreports and sos.mo.gov/business/corporations/fees are both retired URLs on the live site (cached as 200-status 'Page not found' pages) -- confirmed again this pass, not used as sources. The actual current fee schedule is the separately-linked sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/Business/fees.pdf, which IS usable text in the cache (status 200) -- the prior journal pass recorded it as a 403 in error; this pass reads it directly and fills change_agent fee_llc_usd/fee_corp_usd ($10 each, General Fees table) and mail_to (PO Box 778) from it. Chapter 351 (general business corporation) Registration Report fee and any late fee are still not legible in that PDF's crude text extraction -- only a Chapter 355 (Not-for-Profit) Registration Report fee ($15 paper/$10 online annual, $30/$20 biennial) is present, and that is a different entity type so it is not applied to annual_report.fee_corp_usd here. corp_citation for ra_statute (Chapter 351 registered-agent section) and a specific dissolution citation remain not in any cached page 2026-09-08." }, { "state": "Montana", "abbr": "MT", "slug": "montana", "filing_office": { "name": "Montana Secretary of State, Business Services", "url": "https://biz.sosmt.gov/", "source_url": "https://help.sosmt.gov/en-us/article/find-or-change-a-registered-agent-434c4c", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "Mont. Code Ann. § 35-7-114", "corp_citation": "Mont. Code Ann. § 35-7-114", "url": "https://leg.mt.gov/bills/mca/title_0350/chapter_0070/part_0010/section_0140/0350-0070-0010-0140.html", "quote": "The only duties under this chapter of a registered agent that has complied with this chapter are: (1) to forward to the represented entity at the address most recently supplied to the agent by the entity any process, notice, or demand that is served on the agent.", "source_url": "https://leg.mt.gov/bills/mca/title_0350/chapter_0070/part_0010/section_0140/0350-0070-0010-0140.html", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Montana Code Annotated Title 35, Chapter 7 is the Model Registered Agents Act and applies uniformly to corporations, LLCs, LPs and LLLPs (one statute, not per-entity-type citations); the only section cached is 35-7-114 'Duties of registered agent,' so both llc_citation and corp_citation point to it. The section imposing the maintenance requirement itself (cited elsewhere as 35-7-102/103) was not fetched -- not in cached official pages 2026-09-08." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Statement of Change - Registered Office/Agent/Both", "form_url": null, "fee_llc_usd": 0, "fee_corp_usd": 0, "online_filing": true, "online_url": "https://biz.sosmt.gov/", "online_note": "Visit the online filing portal at https://biz.sosmt.gov/. Sign in, search for the business by name or folder ID, open the record, click Filing Actions in the slide-out bar, then scroll down to select and complete the 'Registered Agent/Office Change by Entity.'", "mail_to": "Montana Secretary of State, Business Services, State Capitol, Room 260, 1301 6th Avenue, Helena, MT 59620 (mailing address: P.O. Box 202801, Helena, MT 59620-2801)", "source_url": "https://sosmt.gov/business/fees/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "sosmt.gov/business/fees/ (cached this pass) lists 'Statement Of Change - Registered Office/Agent/Both: NO FEE' identically under both the Corporations and the Limited Liability Companies fee tables, so fee_llc_usd/fee_corp_usd are both 0; the exact form is a portal action (no downloadable form_url in cache) so form_url stays null. Mail-to address is the office's general physical/mailing address from the same fee-sheet page footer, not a filing-specific address." }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Report", "due": "April 15", "due_rule": null, "fee_llc_usd": 0, "fee_corp_usd": 0, "late_fee_usd": 35, "source_url": "https://sosmt.gov/business/fees/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "sosmt.gov/business/fees/ (cached this pass) lists 'Annual Report - Prior To April 15th: WAIVED' and 'Annual Report - After April 15th: $35.00' identically for both Corporations and Limited Liability Companies, so fee_llc_usd/fee_corp_usd are recorded as 0 and late_fee_usd as 35, consistent with (and now on the standing fee sheet, not just the year-specific press releases previously cached) the Secretary of State's fee-waiver policy. due_rule (how April 15 is set/whether it is calendar-fixed or entity-specific) still not in any cached page 2026-09-08." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": null, "citation": null, "source_url": null, "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "not in cached official pages 2026-09-08; cache only states the requirement to have a registered agent ('Montana law requires all corporations and LLCs (LP/LLLP) to have a registered agent to ensure reliable delivery of documents'), not the consequence of lacking one" }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "A registered agent must have a physical and mailing address in Montana. If you do not have one, you must hire a commercial registered agent. (FAQ advises searching for the business's actual registered agent rather than listing yourself, 'unless you are serving in that role,' implying an owner may serve as their own agent if they meet the Montana address requirement.)", "source_url": "https://help.sosmt.gov/en/article/i-was-informed-that-i-must-register-my-business-as-a-foreign-entity-to-obtain-an-insurance-license-as-a-registered-agent-should-i-list-mys-1236z03", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "notes": "The Montana Secretary of State has waived the annual report filing fee in 2024 and 2025 per press releases, and the official fee sheet (sosmt.gov/business/fees/, cached this pass) now also lists the annual report as WAIVED before April 15 with a $35 late fee after, and the registered-agent/office change statement as NO FEE for both corporations and LLCs -- this pass filled fee_llc_usd/fee_corp_usd/late_fee_usd from that fee sheet. Statute citation now sourced from leg.mt.gov MCA 35-7-114 (Model Registered Agents Act, Title 35 Ch. 7), cached this pass. sosmt.gov/business/annual-report/ returned a live 404 when re-fetched, so the annual-report process page itself is still not available in cache; penalty_no_agent and ra_statute.url for the maintenance-requirement section remain not in cached official pages 2026-09-08." }, { "state": "Nebraska", "abbr": "NE", "slug": "nebraska", "filing_office": { "name": "Nebraska Secretary of State, Business Services Division", "url": "https://sos.nebraska.gov/business-services", "source_url": "https://sos.nebraska.gov/business-services/updating-registered-agent-information", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "Neb. Rev. Stat. § 21-113", "corp_citation": null, "url": "https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=21-113", "quote": "A limited liability company shall designate and continuously maintain in this state: (1) an office, which need not be a place of its activity in this state; and (2) an agent for service of process.", "source_url": "https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=21-113", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "llc_citation, url, and quote now sourced from the Nebraska Legislature statute page for § 21-113 'Office and agent for service of process' (Revised Uniform LLC Act), cached this pass. corp_citation (the equivalent section for business corporations under the Model Business Corporation Act, Neb. Rev. Stat. Ch. 21 Art. 20) was not fetched -- not in cached official pages 2026-09-08; the only corp-adjacent RA statute number in cache is § 21-1935, which is the nonprofit change-of-registered-agent form's procedural citation, not the maintenance-requirement statute, so not used as corp_citation." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Statement of Change (of Registered Agent and/or Registered Office) -- a separate version of this form exists per entity type (limited liability company, corporation, nonprofit)", "form_url": "https://sos.nebraska.gov/sites/default/files/doc/business-services/Corporations/Forms/StatementofChangeFLC.pdf", "fee_llc_usd": 30, "fee_corp_usd": 30, "online_filing": true, "online_url": null, "online_note": "Submit the document and required fee online to the Secretary of State's Office using Corporate Document eDelivery. Corporate Document eDelivery is not available for Partnerships, Series LLCs or Limited Cooperative Associations -- mail your completed form and fee instead. In-office/paper fee is $30.00; online fee is $25.00.", "mail_to": "Nebraska Secretary of State, P.O. Box 94608, Lincoln, NE 68509", "source_url": "https://sos.nebraska.gov/sites/default/files/doc/business-services/Corporations/Forms/StatementofChangeFLC.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "The cached PDFs re-rendered cleanly this pass (previously corrupted/unreadable): StatementofChangeFLC.pdf (LLC, foreign) confirms 'FILING FEE: $30.00 (In-Office) / $25.00 (Online) ... Neb. Rev. Stat. §21-114' and gives the same mail_to address (P.O. Box 94608, Lincoln, NE 68509); NPChangeofAgentOffice.pdf (nonprofit corporation) confirms the identical $30/$25 fee under Neb. Rev. Stat. 21-1935. fee_llc_usd/fee_corp_usd both confirmed at $30 in-office ($25 online) directly from the forms rather than only the general fee-changes FAQ. The eDelivery portal's own URL is still not printed anywhere in the cached pages (only the label 'Corporate Document eDelivery' with no visible href), so online_url stays null -- not in cached official pages 2026-09-08." }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual/Biennial Report (Occupation Tax Report for corporations; Biennial Report for LLCs, PLLCs, and nonprofits; Annual Report for LLPs; Annual Benefit Report for benefit corporations)", "due": "Corporations/Professional Corporations: biennially in even-numbered years by March 1 (delinquent April 15). LLCs/PLLCs and Nonprofit Corporations: biennially in odd-numbered years by April 1 (delinquent June 16). Limited Liability Partnerships: annually by April 1 (delinquent June 16). Nebraska Benefit Corporations: annually, within 120 days following the end of the corporation's fiscal year.", "due_rule": "Domestic and Foreign Business Corporations and Professional Corporations biennial occupation tax reports are due in the even numbered years by March 1, delinquent April 15. Limited Liability Partnership annual reports are due every year by April 1, delinquent June 16. Domestic and Foreign Limited Liability Companies and Professional Limited Liability Companies biennial reports are due in the odd numbered years by April 1, delinquent June 16. Domestic and Foreign Nonprofit Corporations biennial reports are due in the odd numbered years by April 1, delinquent June 16.", "fee_llc_usd": null, "fee_corp_usd": null, "late_fee_usd": null, "source_url": "https://sos.nebraska.gov/business-services/annualbiennial-reporting", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "report fee amount and late fee amount are not on the cached annual/biennial-reporting page; the standardized $110/$30 figures on the fee-changes FAQ are explicitly for new formations and amendments, not this report, so not reused here. If not filed by the delinquency date, the company will be administratively dissolved or have its authority administratively revoked" }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "Failure to maintain a registered agent can result in the administrative dissolution of your business.", "citation": null, "source_url": "https://sos.nebraska.gov/business-services/updating-registered-agent-information", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "no statute citation given on the cached page for this consequence" }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "The registered agent can be a member of the business entity or a designated third party who resides in Nebraska. The registered agent may be another business entity if the business entity is authorized to transact business in Nebraska. The registered agent's office must be identical to the registered office.", "source_url": "https://sos.nebraska.gov/business-services/updating-registered-agent-information", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "notes": "If registered agent information is not kept current, the business will likely miss its biennial/annual report notice and be administratively dissolved; reinstatement then requires an additional application and additional fees, and a certificate of good standing cannot be obtained in the meantime. This pass: all four registered-agent/annual-report PDFs were re-fetched via firecrawl and now render cleanly (previously corrupted via urllib): StatementofChangeFLC.pdf/StatementofChangeFPS.pdf (LLC/protected series, $30/$25, Neb. Rev. Stat. §21-114), NPChangeofAgentOffice.pdf (nonprofit corp, $30/$25, §21-1935), AmendedBiennialReportCorp.pdf ($30 flat, §21-301/21-304, for amending a prior biennial report -- not the RA change form). Also newly cached: nebraskalegislature.gov statute page for §21-113 (LLC RA maintenance requirement). Two pages returned live 404s when re-fetched (sos.nebraska.gov/business-services/fees and /business-services/biennial-reports), so annual-report fee/late-fee amounts and the corp RA maintenance-statute citation remain not in cached official pages 2026-09-08." }, { "state": "Nevada", "abbr": "NV", "slug": "nevada", "filing_office": { "name": "Nevada Secretary of State", "url": "https://www.nvsos.gov", "source_url": "https://www.nvsos.gov/businesses/commercial-recordings/forms-fees/registered-agents", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "NRS 77.310", "corp_citation": "NRS 77.310", "url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-077.html#NRS077Sec310", "quote": "A registered agent filing must state: (a) The name of the represented entity's commercial registered agent; or (b) If the entity does not have a commercial registered agent: (1) The name and address of the entity's noncommercial registered agent.", "source_url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-077.html", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "NRS Chapter 77 is Nevada's Model Registered Agents Act and, per its own text, governs the registered agent of every domestic/foreign corporation, LLC and limited partnership uniformly -- there is no separate per-entity-type RA statute -- so both llc_citation and corp_citation cite NRS 77.310 'Appointment of registered agent', the section that requires the registered-agent filing. The full chapter text (cached this pass via leg.state.nv.us) was previously only reachable via the SoS registered-agents page, which itself 404'd on re-fetch this pass (nvsos.gov site is mid-migration to ORION per its own banner: 'SilverFlume and ORION will be down...to fully transition'). NRS 77.340 is the specific 'Change of registered agent by entity' procedural section (used to source change_agent this pass)." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Registered Agent Acceptance/Statement of Change", "form_url": "https://www.nvsos.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/6527/638288368351470000", "fee_llc_usd": 60, "fee_corp_usd": 60, "online_filing": null, "online_url": null, "online_note": null, "mail_to": "Secretary of State, 401 N. Carson Street, Carson City, NV 89701", "source_url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-077.html", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "fee_llc_usd/fee_corp_usd corrected this pass: NRS 77.280 Fees, cached in full this pass, states '1. The Secretary of State shall collect the following fees when a filing is made under this chapter: (a) For a statement of change, $60.' -- this is the statutory fee section of the Model Registered Agents Act (NRS Chapter 77), which per its own text governs every domestic/foreign corporation and LLC uniformly (see ra_statute note), so $60 applies to both. (Also in this section: statement of resignation $100 first entity/$1 each additional; statement appointing agent for service of process $60.) mail address given on the forms-fees/registered-agents page is for Commercial Registered Agent Registration remittance, applied here as the general SOS mailing address; no cached text confirms online filing for this specific form -- the forms-fees/registered-agents page describes email/fax/mail/in-person remittance for Commercial Registered Agent Registration, not the SilverFlume portal, so online_filing is left null rather than guessed either way. nvsos.gov/sos/businesses/commercial-recordings/registered-agents and .../fees remain 404 on the live site (mid-migration to ORION, system down for transition Sep 9-14, 2026), so no additional SoS-page fee data is recoverable this pass." }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual List", "due": null, "due_rule": null, "fee_llc_usd": null, "fee_corp_usd": null, "late_fee_usd": null, "source_url": "https://www.nvsos.gov/businesses/commercial-recordings/forms-fees", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "the cached forms-fees page only links an 'Annual List' fee-schedule PDF (not fetched); the fetched sos-information/news/annual-reports page is the Secretary of State's own biennial report to the governor, not the business entity annual list - not in cached official pages 2026-09-08" }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": null, "citation": null, "source_url": null, "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "not in cached official pages 2026-09-08" }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "If the Represented Entity has a physical address in Nevada it may elect to serve as its own registered agent by setting forth a specific office or position (President, Office Manager, Owner, Controller, etc.) within the entity as the Registered Agent.", "source_url": "https://www.nvsos.gov/businesses/commercial-recordings/forms-fees/registered-agents", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "notes": "This pass: NRS 77.280 ('Fees'), full text now cached in the NRS Chapter 77 file, gives the statement-of-change fee directly -- $60, filled into change_agent.fee_llc_usd/fee_corp_usd. Searched the same chapter text for any entity-side consequence of lacking a registered agent (service on the Secretary of State, administrative default/revocation) and for an Annual List fee or due date -- neither is present in Chapter 77 (a registered-agents-only chapter; those provisions live in Title 7's per-entity-type chapters, e.g. NRS 78/86, which are not in the cache), so annual_report and penalty_no_agent are unchanged. Cache for nevada still has no fetched entity-type fee-schedule PDFs (LLC/corp fee schedules and annual list fee are PDF links only) and no fetched annual-list/annual-report page. This pass added NRS Chapter 77 (Model Registered Agents Act) full text from leg.state.nv.us, which filled ra_statute for both LLC and corp (uniform statute, NRS 77.310) and clarified the change-of-agent procedural citation (NRS 77.340). Two nvsos.gov pages re-fetched this pass (registered-agents, fees under /sos/businesses/commercial-recordings/) both 404 live -- the SoS site is mid-migration from SilverFlume to a new ORION system (planned outage Sep 9-14, 2026 per its own banner), so those URLs may simply be stale/renamed post-migration rather than permanently gone. penalty_no_agent still not in cache: NRS 77.447 sets a $500/violation civil penalty but it targets a registered agent's own violations of Chapter 77, not an entity's failure to maintain one, so it was not used for that field. Registered-agent-listing page and sports-agents pages in the cache remain not relevant to this schema." }, { "state": "New Hampshire", "abbr": "NH", "slug": "new-hampshire", "filing_office": { "name": "New Hampshire Secretary of State, Corporation Division", "url": "https://www.sos.nh.gov", "source_url": "https://www.sos.nh.gov/corporations-0/forms-and-fees", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "RSA 304-C", "corp_citation": "RSA 293-A", "url": "http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/NHTOC/NHTOC-XXVIII-304-C.htm", "quote": null, "source_url": "https://www.sos.nh.gov/corporations-0/forms-and-fees", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "cache gives the governing chapters (RSA 304-C for LLC, RSA 293-A for corporations) from the forms-and-fees index, not the specific registered-agent section number or verbatim statute text - not in cached official pages 2026-09-08" }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Form 10 - Statement of Change of Registered Office or Registered Agent or Both", "form_url": "https://www.sos.nh.gov/sites/g/files/ehbemt561/files/documents/2023-12/form_10_-01-2023.pdf", "fee_llc_usd": 15, "fee_corp_usd": 15, "online_filing": true, "online_url": "https://quickstart.sos.nh.gov/online/Account/LandingPage", "online_note": "Filing can also be done online on our website at: https://quickstart.sos.nh.gov/online/Account/LandingPage. Electronic filings carry an additional $2.00 handling charge per RSA 5:10-a.", "mail_to": null, "source_url": "https://www.sos.nh.gov/corporations-0/registered-agents", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "mail_to address not stated on cached pages" }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Report", "due": null, "due_rule": null, "fee_llc_usd": 100, "fee_corp_usd": 100, "late_fee_usd": 50, "source_url": "https://www.sos.nh.gov/corporations-0/forms-and-fees/limited-liability-companies", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Report Fee $100, Late Fee $50, filed online via NH Quickstart, confirmed identically on both the LLC and corporation forms-and-fees pages; the due date/due_rule is not stated on the cached forms-and-fees or file-annual-report pages - not in cached official pages 2026-09-08" }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "State law requires that an LLC or corporation maintain a registered agent in the State at all times in order to be in good standing. In fact, failure to maintain an agent may result in the administrative suspension or dissolution of your business.", "citation": null, "source_url": "https://www.sos.nh.gov/corporations-0/registered-agents", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "quote is verbatim from the cached registered-agents FAQ page; no RSA citation given there" }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "individuals, business owners, managers, or employees can be listed as the registered agent for the business as long as they can be located at the registered agent address in this state", "source_url": "https://www.sos.nh.gov/corporations-0/registered-agents", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "notes": "Change-agent fee ($15) and annual report fee/late fee ($100/$50) are confirmed identically on both the LLC and corporation forms-and-fees pages in cache. Registered agent must have a physical NH address (no PO box) per the cached FAQ page." }, { "state": "New Jersey", "abbr": "NJ", "slug": "new-jersey", "filing_office": { "name": "New Jersey Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services", "url": "https://www.nj.gov/treasury/revenue/", "source_url": "https://www.nj.gov/treasury/revenue/fees.shtml", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "N.J.S.A. 42:2C-14", "corp_citation": "N.J.S.A. 14A:15", "url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/new-jersey/title-42/section-42-2c-14/", "quote": "A limited liability company shall designate and continuously maintain in this State: (1) an office, which need not be a place of its activity in this State; and (2) an agent for service of process.", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/new-jersey/title-42/section-42-2c-14/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "llc_citation and quote now confirmed verbatim via cached Justia mirror of N.J.S.A. 42:2C-14 (secondary tier per SCHEMA, no njleg.state.nj.us statute-site page is in the cache). corp_citation stays chapter-level (N.J.S.A. 14A:15) from the fees.shtml footnote reference 'NJSA 14A:15-3 (16)' - no cached page gives the specific corporation registered-agent/office section number or its text, so corp url/quote remain unfilled - not in cached official pages 2026-09-08" }, "change_agent": { "form_name": null, "form_url": "https://www.nj.gov/treasury/revenue/dcr/pdforms/c104d.pdf", "fee_llc_usd": 25, "fee_corp_usd": 25, "online_filing": null, "online_url": null, "online_note": null, "mail_to": "NJ Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services, PO Box 628, Trenton, NJ 08625-0628", "source_url": "https://www.nj.gov/treasury/revenue/fees.shtml", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "fee ($25.00, listed as 'Change of Registered Office or Agent or Both') confirmed for corporations, non-profits, LLCs and LLPs alike on the fee schedule page. form_url points to the cached c104d.pdf, whose extracted field labels (Old/New Address, Agent, Alphabetic Listing of Corporations Affected) match a change-of-registered-agent form, but no title text was recovered from the PDF extraction so form_name is left null rather than guessed - not in cached official pages 2026-09-08. mail_to is the Division's general footer mailing address, not confirmed as the specific address for this form. online_filing not stated in cache." }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Report", "due": null, "due_rule": null, "fee_llc_usd": 75, "fee_corp_usd": 75, "late_fee_usd": null, "source_url": "https://www.nj.gov/treasury/revenue/fees.shtml", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "for-profit corporation/LP annual report fee $75, LLC annual report fee $75, non-profit annual report fee $30 (non-profit not applicable to this schema); due date/due_rule and late fee not stated in the cached pages - not in cached official pages 2026-09-08" }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": null, "citation": null, "source_url": null, "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "not in cached official pages 2026-09-08; the cached reinstatefees.shtml page covers reinstatement fees for entities that lapse into inactive/revoked status but does not state what triggers revocation or reference lack of a registered agent specifically" }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "An agent for service of process of a limited liability company or foreign limited liability company shall be an individual who is a resident of this State or other person with authority to transact business in this State.", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/new-jersey/title-42/section-42-2c-14/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "from cached Justia mirror of N.J.S.A. 42:2C-14(c); confirms an individual NJ resident (which includes an LLC member/owner who resides in-state) may serve as the agent - stated for LLCs only, no cached page gives the equivalent corporation provision" }, "notes": "NJ cache is entirely Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services (Treasury) pages/PDFs, not a Secretary-of-State site (NJ business filings run through Treasury/DORES, not SOS). No statute-site (njleg.state.nj.us) page is in the cache, so citations are chapter-level only, taken from a fee-schedule footnote rather than a dedicated statute reference." }, { "state": "New Mexico", "abbr": "NM", "slug": "new-mexico", "filing_office": { "name": "New Mexico Secretary of State", "url": "https://www.sos.nm.gov", "source_url": "https://www.sos.nm.gov/business-services/", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": null, "corp_citation": null, "url": null, "quote": null, "source_url": null, "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "not in cached official pages 2026-09-09. A cached nmonesource.com page was fetched at an anchor for section 53-19-5 (https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa/en/item/4438/index.do#!b/53-19-5) but the firecrawl render landed on the wrong chapter (Chapter 59A - Insurance Code, an unrelated section list) - the JS anchor did not resolve to the target section, so no registered-agent statute text was actually retrieved. Cache otherwise has only athlete-agent, voter-registration, and sample filed Annual/Biennial Report pages - none is a registered-agent or statute page. 2026-09-09 pass: the 4 newly-cached sos.nm.gov files (corporate-transparency-act-information page, enterprise.sos.nm.gov/forms/business, and two old Newsroom posts) read in full - none is a statute or registered-agent page, so still nothing to fill." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": null, "form_url": null, "fee_llc_usd": null, "fee_corp_usd": null, "online_filing": true, "online_url": "https://enterprise.sos.nm.gov/", "online_note": "All business filings have moved to online process. We will no longer accept paper filings for any business applications.", "mail_to": null, "source_url": "https://www.sos.nm.gov/business-services/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "online_filing/online_url/online_note verbatim from the cached Business Services page - NM requires the enterprise.sos.nm.gov portal for all business filings, which is also why mail_to is left null (paper filings are stated as no longer accepted, not merely absent from the cache). form_name, form_url and the change fees are still not in any cached page. 2026-09-09 pass: tried enterprise.sos.nm.gov/forms/business (today's new cache, would have been the likely forms list) - it returned 403 Forbidden (Microsoft-Azure-Application-Gateway), no content retrieved. The other 3 new files (CTA info page, 2 old Newsroom posts) carry no form name, form URL, or fee data. No change from prior pass." }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual/Biennial Report", "due": null, "due_rule": null, "fee_llc_usd": null, "fee_corp_usd": 25, "late_fee_usd": 200, "source_url": "https://enterprise.sos.nm.gov/api/report/GetImageByNum/197213145084124044164129163031029083177227119106", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "fee and late-fee text is verbatim and identical across four cached sample filed Biennial Report documents (all corporations, filed 'pursuant to the Business Corporation Act'): 'The filing fee for the Biennial Report is $25 and can be paid via credit or debit card (plus convenience fee), or by e-check (no fee). If this report is not timely filed, there is a $200 late penalty. If the entity is in revoked status, there will be an additional $200 reinstatement fee.' No LLC sample report is in the cache, so fee_llc_usd is left null rather than assumed equal to the corporate fee. No due-date rule text is in the cache (the four samples show different filed dates: 6/27/2025, 8/6/2025, 2/10/2026, 5/26/2026, consistent with an anniversary-based cycle but no rule is stated). 2026-09-09 pass: none of the 4 newly-cached files (CTA info page, forms/business 403, 2 old Newsroom posts) mentions the Annual/Biennial Report fee, LLC fee, or a due-date rule - fee_llc_usd and due/due_rule stay null." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": null, "citation": null, "source_url": null, "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "not in cached official pages 2026-09-08; the $200 reinstatement fee applies to revoked status generally (e.g. for a late annual report), not stated as specific to lack of a registered agent. 2026-09-09 pass: no penalty/dissolution/revocation language for a missing registered agent specifically in any of the 4 newly-cached files - still null." }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": null, "conditions": null, "source_url": null, "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "not in cached official pages 2026-09-08. 2026-09-09 pass: none of the 4 newly-cached files addresses who may serve as a registered agent - still null." }, "notes": "New Mexico cache has no registered-agent, statute, or change-agent-form page at all - the fetched pages are Uniform Athletes Agents FAQ/info, voter-registration agent pages, and four sample filed corporate Annual/Biennial Report documents from enterprise.sos.nm.gov. Only the report-fee text and the SOS mailing address (325 Don Gaspar, Suite 300, Santa Fe, NM 87501, appearing on every sample report header) are usable facts. Prior draft of this row (states.json, pre-2026-09-08 quota stop) cited Justia/FindLaw secondary sources for statute citations and aggregator claims about NM LLC report exemption - those are NOT re-used here since this pass is cache-only with no web access; they should be re-verified against nmonesource.com or sos.nm.gov directly in a future fetch pass before being restored. 2026-09-09 pass: read the 4 newly-cached sos.nm.gov files in full (data/sources/new-mexico/0e1a5ea78b20f8ae.md Corporate Transparency Act info page - federal BOI/FinCEN content, no state registered-agent/report data beyond the standing SOS address; 2b51aedec67f07ba.md enterprise.sos.nm.gov/forms/business - returned 403 Forbidden, no content; b7c7c1f999397b20.md and d56742dfa0740c8d.md - old Newsroom posts, a 2017 candidate-guide stub and a 2023/2024 UCC-filing-system-migration announcement, neither touching registered agents, annual reports, or fees). No field changed this pass; every note above the field logs the 2026-09-09 check so a future pass does not re-read the same dead ends." }, { "state": "New York", "abbr": "NY", "slug": "new-york", "filing_office": { "name": "New York Department of State, Division of Corporations", "url": "https://dos.ny.gov/division-corporations", "source_url": "https://dos.ny.gov/division-corporations", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "NY Limited Liability Company Law § 302", "corp_citation": "NY Business Corporation Law § 305", "url": "https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/LLC/302", "quote": null, "source_url": "https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/LLC/302", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "New York is unusual: the Secretary of State is the statutory agent for every LLC/corporation by default (LLC Law §301 / BCL §304); designating an additional registered agent under LLC Law §302 / BCL §305 is optional, not mandatory. Verbatim statute text not confirmed - call cap reached." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Certificate of Change (domestic LLC) / Certificate of Change of Address of Registered Agent (domestic corporation)", "form_url": "https://dos.ny.gov/certificate-change-domestic-limited-liability-companies-0", "fee_llc_usd": 30, "fee_corp_usd": 5, "online_filing": null, "source_url": "https://dos.ny.gov/certificate-change-domestic-limited-liability-companies-0", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "fees attributed to LLC Law §211-A ($30) and BCL §805-A(b) ($5) per search synthesis of dos.ny.gov pages; online filing availability not confirmed - call cap reached" }, "annual_report": { "name": "Biennial Statement", "due": "during the calendar month of the entity's original filing anniversary, every 2 years", "due_rule": "LLC Law §301(e) (LLC) and BCL §408 (corporation)", "fee_llc_usd": 9, "fee_corp_usd": 9, "late_fee_usd": 0, "source_url": "https://dos.ny.gov/biennial-statements-business-corporations-and-limited-liability-companies", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "fee and due-date rule corroborated by multiple sources citing this official dos.ny.gov page; not independently re-fetched" }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "New York does not administratively dissolve LLCs or corporations for a missed Biennial Statement; the entity is instead marked 'past due' in Department of State records, which can block a certificate of good standing and some transactions. New York does not require a privately-designated registered agent at all - the Secretary of State is statutory agent by default for every entity.", "citation": "NY LLC Law § 301 / BCL § 304", "source_url": "https://dos.ny.gov/biennial-statements-business-corporations-and-limited-liability-companies", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "not independently WebFetched - call cap reached" }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": null, "conditions": "not applicable in the traditional sense: New York requires no privately-designated registered agent because the Secretary of State is agent by default for every entity; an LLC/corporation may optionally also designate its own owner/officer as a supplemental registered agent under LLC Law §302 / BCL §305.", "source_url": "https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/LLC/302", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": null }, "notes": "NY has no mandatory private registered-agent regime; the Secretary of State is agent for service of process by default for every domestic/foreign LLC and corporation, which is structurally different from every other state in this batch." }, { "state": "North Carolina", "abbr": "NC", "slug": "north-carolina", "filing_office": { "name": "North Carolina Secretary of State, Business Registration Division", "url": "https://www.sosnc.gov", "source_url": "https://sosnc.gov/forms", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "N.C.G.S. § 57D-2-40", "corp_citation": "N.C.G.S. § 55D-30", "url": "https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/PDF/BySection/Chapter_55D/GS_55D-30.pdf", "quote": null, "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/north-carolina/2013/chapter-55d/article-4/section-55d-30/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "citations corroborated by ncleg.gov PDF titles (GS_55D-30.pdf) and Justia; verbatim statute text not fetched - call cap reached" }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Statement of Change of Registered Office and/or Registered Agent (Form BE-06)", "form_url": "https://sosnc.gov/forms", "fee_llc_usd": 5, "fee_corp_usd": 5, "online_filing": true, "source_url": "https://sosnc.gov/forms", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "confirmed by direct fetch of the official forms page" }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Report", "due": "April 15", "due_rule": "due annually by April 15 following the calendar year of formation, per sources citing sosnc.gov", "fee_llc_usd": 200, "fee_corp_usd": null, "late_fee_usd": null, "source_url": "https://www.sosnc.gov/divisions/business_registration/annual_report_due_dates", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "LLC due date/fee corroborated across multiple sources referencing this official sosnc.gov page; corporation fee and any late fee not confirmed - call cap reached" }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "The Secretary of State may administratively dissolve an LLC if it has not paid fees within 60 days after they are due, does not deliver its annual report within 60 days after it is due, or has been without a registered agent or registered office for 60 days or more.", "citation": "N.C.G.S. § 57D-6-06", "source_url": "https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/PDF/BySection/Chapter_57D/GS_57D-6-06.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "the registered agent must be an individual who resides in the state with a business office identical to the registered office, or a domestic corporation/LLC whose business office is identical with the registered office", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/north-carolina/2013/chapter-55d/article-4/section-55d-30/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "source_tier secondary (Justia)", "source_tier": "secondary" }, "notes": "Form BE-06 / $5 fee / online filing directly confirmed via sosnc.gov/forms. Corporation annual report fee and any late fee could not be confirmed within the call budget." }, { "state": "North Dakota", "abbr": "ND", "slug": "north-dakota", "filing_office": { "name": "North Dakota Office of the Secretary of State", "url": "https://www.sos.nd.gov", "source_url": "https://www.sos.nd.gov/business/business-services/registered-agents", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "N.D.C.C. ch. 10-01.1", "corp_citation": "N.D.C.C. ch. 10-01.1", "url": null, "quote": "A registered agent (also known as a resident agent or a statutory agent) accepts any notifications of legal action, notice, or demand related to the business and provides those notices to the business (NDCC ch. 10-01.1). A business may not serve as its own registered agent.", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.sos.nd.gov/business/business-services/registered-agents", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "North Dakota uses one Registered Agents Act (ch. 10-01.1) for all entity types rather than separate LLC/corporation provisions; quote is verbatim from the official SOS registered-agents page, not the ndlegis.gov statute text itself (no statute-site URL is in the cache) - source_tier marked secondary for that reason" }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Statement of Change of Noncommercial Registered Agent or Address", "form_url": null, "fee_llc_usd": 10, "fee_corp_usd": 10, "online_filing": true, "online_url": "https://firststop.sos.nd.gov", "online_note": "Filing with the Office of the Secretary of State is quick and easy to do online (FirstStop Portal).", "mail_to": "North Dakota Office of the Secretary of State, 600 E Boulevard Avenue Dept 108, Bismarck, ND 58505", "source_url": "https://www.sos.nd.gov/business/business-services/registered-agents", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "the cached page prices the change fee by registered-agent type, not by entity type: noncommercial registered agent statement of change of agent/address is $10 (both LLC and corporation use the same noncommercial-agent form/fee); commercial registered agent statement of change of address is also $10 but that fee applies to the commercial agent's own listing, not a per-entity filing. No standalone form_url was found in the cache (no PDF link given on this page); online filing is inferred from the news-release page's statement about online filing generally, not stated specifically for this form on the registered-agents page itself." }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Report", "due": null, "due_rule": "The annual report deadlines vary throughout the year depending on the business or nonprofit structure.", "fee_llc_usd": 50, "fee_corp_usd": 25, "late_fee_usd": null, "source_url": "https://www.sos.nd.gov/news/secretary-state-warns-misleading-annual-report-letters-third-parties", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "filing fee verbatim from the official SOS news release: '$10 for nonprofits, $20 for cooperatives, $25 for corporations, $25 for partnerships that have an annual report filing requirement, and $50 for limited liability companies (LLCs)'; filed online via the FirstStop Portal; no specific due date or late-fee amount is stated in the cache - not in cached official pages 2026-09-08 for those two fields" }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "Businesses must obtain an agent's approval before naming them as a commercial or noncommercial registered agent. Failure to obtain approval from the named agent may result in the involuntary dissolution of your business.", "citation": "N.D.C.C. ch. 10-01.1", "source_url": "https://www.sos.nd.gov/business/business-services/registered-agents", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "verbatim from the official SOS page; this text ties dissolution to filing an agent designation without the agent's approval, not explicitly to having zero registered agent at all - closest penalty language present in the cache" }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "A business may not serve as its own registered agent. However, an individual from the business could serve as the noncommercial registered agent if they reside in North Dakota.", "source_url": "https://www.sos.nd.gov/business/business-services/registered-agents", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "notes": "North Dakota's registered-agent law is a single unified Registered Agents Act (ch. 10-01.1) covering all entity types, not separate LLC/corporation statutes. Registered-agent change fees are structured by agent type (commercial vs. noncommercial), both $10, rather than by entity type (LLC vs. corporation) - fee_llc_usd/fee_corp_usd are both set to 10 to reflect that flat structure. Annual report fees ARE entity-type-specific ($50 LLC, $25 corporation) per the cached news release. This replaces the prior draft of this row, which had marked several of these same fields null under a 'call cap reached' note before the fuller registered-agents page and the annual-report news release were read." }, { "state": "Ohio", "abbr": "OH", "slug": "ohio", "filing_office": { "name": "Ohio Secretary of State, Business Services Division", "url": "https://www.ohiosos.gov", "source_url": "https://www.ohiosos.gov", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "Ohio Rev. Code § 1706.09", "corp_citation": "Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07", "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-1706.09", "quote": "Each limited liability company and foreign limited liability company shall maintain continuously in this state an agent for service of process.", "source_url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-1706.09", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "text obtained via search of the official codes.ohio.gov page (direct WebFetch of the same URL failed with a connection error); corporation section 1701.07 opens with closely parallel language: 'Every corporation shall have and maintain an agent, sometimes referred to as the statutory agent, upon whom any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by statute to be served upon a corporation may be served.'" }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Statutory Agent Update (Form 521)", "form_url": "https://www.ohiosos.gov/business/", "fee_llc_usd": 25, "fee_corp_usd": 25, "online_filing": true, "source_url": "https://www.ohiosos.gov/business/ohio-business-roadmap/frequently-asked-questions", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "direct WebFetch of the FAQ page returned HTTP 403; form name/fee taken from search results referencing that page and Ohio Business Central" }, "annual_report": { "name": null, "due": null, "due_rule": null, "fee_llc_usd": 0, "fee_corp_usd": 0, "late_fee_usd": null, "source_url": "https://www.ohiosos.gov", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Ohio has no annual/biennial report requirement for LLCs or corporations - well corroborated across sources, but direct confirmation on ohiosos.gov failed (403) - call cap reached" }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "A statutory agent may resign by filing written notice with the Secretary of State; the agent's authority terminates 30 days after that filing. If an entity's agent lapses and is not replaced, the entity is subject to cancellation of its articles / administrative dissolution and loses the ability to maintain lawsuits or transact business until it is cured.", "citation": "Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07 (cancellation and reinstatement of articles)", "source_url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-1701.07", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "corroborated by search synthesis of codes.ohio.gov content; not independently WebFetched" }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "must be a natural person who is a resident of Ohio, or a domestic/foreign entity that has a business address in Ohio", "source_url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-1706.09", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "notes": "Ohio calls the position a 'statutory agent' rather than 'registered agent.' Direct WebFetch of ohiosos.gov failed twice (403 and connection refused); facts other than the statute text and the North Dakota-style page fetch above rely on search synthesis of official-domain pages." }, { "state": "Oklahoma", "abbr": "OK", "slug": "oklahoma", "filing_office": { "name": "Oklahoma Secretary of State", "url": "https://www.sos.ok.gov", "source_url": "https://www.sos.ok.gov/business/fees.aspx", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "18 O.S. § 2010", "corp_citation": "18 O.S. § 1022", "url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/oklahoma/title-18/section-18-2010/", "quote": null, "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/oklahoma/title-18/section-18-2010/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "citations and url kept from a prior pass (already had a source_url, not touched per brief rule 'keep every field that already has a source_url'). No page for either section 18-2010 or 18-1022 is actually present in the current data/sources/oklahoma/ cache (only a cached Justia page for the unrelated merger-effects section 18-2054 exists), so quote could not be filled or verified against cache this pass - not in cached official pages 2026-09-08." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Change or Designation of Registered Agent and/or Registered Office and/or Principal Office (LLC form Fm0075.PDF); corporations file the equivalent Change or Designation of Registered Agent and/or Registered Office (form Fm0056.PDF)", "form_url": "https://www.sos.ok.gov/forms/Fm0075.PDF", "fee_llc_usd": 25, "fee_corp_usd": 25, "online_filing": true, "online_url": "https://www.sos.ok.gov/corp/change.aspx", "online_note": "Select the applicable entity type, then choose to file online by clicking the ONLINE link and proceed to file electronically. If the filing type is not available online or if you prefer to mail or deliver your filing, click PDF to print a copy, complete the form, attach payment and mail or deliver to the Secretary of State office.", "mail_to": "Oklahoma Secretary of State, 421 N.W. 13th, Suite 210, Oklahoma City, OK 73103", "source_url": "https://www.sos.ok.gov/business/forms.aspx", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "$25 fee and Fm0075.PDF/change.aspx confirmed on the official Downloadable Business Forms page for both 'Limited Liability Company (LLC) - Domestic' and 'Corporations - Domestic' sections (corp form is Fm0056.PDF, same $25 fee, same online portal); the official Business Services fee schedule (fees.aspx) independently confirms 'Change of Registered Agent and/or Office | 25.00' as a flat figure. mail_to is the Secretary of State's business office address given on the cached LLC Annual Certificate PDF (Llcannualcertificate.PDF) as the mail-in address for that office's filings - not independently re-confirmed on a page specific to this particular change-of-agent form, so treat as the office's general mailing address rather than a form-specific one." }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Certificate", "due": "the anniversary date of the entity's registration with the Secretary of State", "due_rule": "EVERY domestic and foreign limited liability company, or registered series, registered to do business in Oklahoma shall file a certificate each year in the Office of the Secretary of State, on the anniversary date of its registration.", "fee_llc_usd": 25, "fee_corp_usd": 10, "late_fee_usd": null, "source_url": "https://www.sos.ok.gov/forms/Llcannualcertificate.PDF", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "due/due_rule and fee_llc_usd ($25.00) are verbatim/confirmed from the official LLC Annual Certificate form (18 O.S. § 2055.2), also matching the fee schedule line 'Annual Certificates - Oklahoma/Foreign LLC 18 OS 2055.2 | 25.00'. There is no numeric late fee - the same form states penalty is loss of standing instead: 'A limited liability company or registered series that neglects, refuses or fails to file the annual certificate within sixty (60) days after the due date shall cease to be in good standing' - captured in penalty_no_agent-adjacent context, so late_fee_usd is left null (not a dollar figure) rather than 0. fee_corp_usd (10) is the MINIMUM of the corporation's 'Annual Certificates 18 OS 1142' fee, which the official fee schedule (business/fees.aspx) lists as 'min. 10.00 (1/10 of 1%)' - i.e. the actual fee is 1/10 of 1% of an amount (apparent capital/stock basis) with a $10 floor, not a flat number; due date/rule for the corporation's own annual certificate specifically was not found in the cache (only the LLC form's anniversary-date rule was retrieved) - not in cached official pages 2026-09-08 for the corporate due date." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "If an LLC or registered series has no registered agent or the agent cannot be found, service of process may be made on the Secretary of State as its agent. For corporations, after 30 days' notice the Secretary of State may revoke the certificate, and the entity forfeits $25 per day up to $500 per offense. Separately, an LLC or registered series that fails to file its Annual Certificate within 60 days after the due date ceases to be in good standing.", "citation": "18 O.S. § 1134 (corporation); 18 O.S. § 2004 (LLC service on Secretary of State); 18 O.S. § 2055.2 (LLC annual certificate good-standing lapse)", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/oklahoma/title-18/section-18-1134/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "core text kept from a prior pass (already had a source_url); the 60-day good-standing-lapse clause is newly added and is verbatim-confirmed against the cached, primary Llcannualcertificate.PDF form (not secondary) - the $1134/$2004 revocation and forfeiture figures themselves are still only justia-sourced (secondary) since no oscn.net or sos.ok.gov page giving that statute text is in the cache." }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "the LLC's registered agent for service of process may be the LLC itself, an individual resident of Oklahoma, or a domestic/qualified foreign corporation, LLC, or limited partnership", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/oklahoma/title-18/section-18-2010/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "kept from a prior pass (already had a source_url); no primary sos.ok.gov or oscn.net page confirming self-designation for LLCs is in the current cache. The cached corp/filing.aspx page has an unrelated line about registered-agent changes affecting multiple entities, not about self-designation, so it does not add anything here." }, "notes": "Oklahoma LLC law is unusual in explicitly permitting the LLC to designate itself as its own registered agent (per the justia-sourced text carried over from the prior pass). The official Downloadable Business Forms page (sos.ok.gov/business/forms.aspx) and the flat $25 line on the fee schedule (sos.ok.gov/business/fees.aspx) are strong primary confirmation for the $25 change-of-agent fee across LLC and corporation forms. The corporation's own Annual Certificate fee is not a flat dollar figure - it is 1/10 of 1% with a $10 statutory minimum (18 O.S. § 1142) - so fee_corp_usd=10 should be read/displayed as a floor, not the typical fee most corporations pay." }, { "state": "Oregon", "abbr": "OR", "slug": "oregon", "filing_office": { "name": "Oregon Secretary of State, Corporation Division", "url": "https://sos.oregon.gov/business", "source_url": "https://sos.oregon.gov/business/pages/registered-agents-service-of-process.aspx", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "ORS 63.111", "corp_citation": "ORS 60.111", "url": "https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors063.html", "quote": "A limited liability company shall continuously maintain in this state a registered agent and registered office that may be, but need not be, the same as any of the limited liability company's places of business.", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_63.111", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "llc_citation and quote now confirmed via cached oregon.public.law mirror of ORS 63.111, which itself cites the official oregonlegislature.gov page as its source; oregon.public.law is a private repackaging site (not on the SCHEMA allowed-host list, and not Cornell LII/Justia either) so source_tier is marked secondary out of caution even though its text matches the official statute. No cached page gives the corporation statute (ORS 60.111) text, so corp_citation stays as a bare citation with no independent quote confirmation - not in cached official pages 2026-09-08." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Change of Registered Agent/Address (Corp/LLC)", "form_url": null, "fee_llc_usd": 0, "fee_corp_usd": 0, "online_filing": true, "online_url": "https://sos.oregon.gov/business", "online_note": "Filed through the Secretary of State's online business registry (Update Registration); the official fee schedule lists this filing at $0.00.", "mail_to": "Secretary of State, Corporation Division, 255 Capitol Street NE, Suite 151, Salem, OR 97310-1327", "source_url": "https://sos.oregon.gov/business/Documents/business-registry-forms/br-fee-schedule.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "fee ($0.00) confirmed twice on the official Business Registry Fee Schedule PDF, as both 'Change of Registered Agent/Address (Domestic & Foreign)' (LP/general section) and 'Change of Registered Agent/Address (Corp/LLC)' - flat, no charge, for both entity types. The cached PDF at the specific form URL (corp-llc-change-registered-agent-adress.pdf) returns a 404 'Page Not Found' from sos.oregon.gov (site was restructured), so form_url is left null rather than pointing to a dead link; the mailing address is the Corporation Division's address given on the cached registered-agents FAQ page for delivering an agent resignation/non-consent statement, used here as the office's general filing address since no form-specific address is in the cache." }, "annual_report": { "name": "Renewal (Annual Report)", "due": "the anniversary date of the entity's original filing", "due_rule": "An assumed business name renews every two years. All other business entity types renew every year. Your renewal is due on the anniversary date of the original filing. We send the renewal notice out about 45 days in advance of the due date.", "fee_llc_usd": 100, "fee_corp_usd": 100, "late_fee_usd": null, "source_url": "https://sos.oregon.gov/business/Pages/obr-annual-report-renewal.aspx", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "due_rule verbatim from the official Annual Report/Renewal page; fee ($100.00 'Renewal (Annually)' for both Domestic LLC and Domestic Corporation - Business/Professional) confirmed on the official Business Registry Fee Schedule PDF (nonprofit corporations renew at $50.00 instead, not used here since schema's fee_corp_usd is a single figure and business/professional is the general-purpose corp category). No numeric late fee is stated anywhere in the cache - Oregon's penalty mechanism for a missed renewal/registered agent is administrative dissolution rather than a late-fee dollar amount (see penalty_no_agent), so late_fee_usd is left null rather than 0." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "Failure to maintain a proper registered agent and registered office may prevent a company from receiving notice of pending legal action, and could result in a default judgment against the company as a result of failure to appear to defend against a claim. If a registered agent resigns, the business must designate a new registered agent and provide that information to the Corporation Division. Failure to designate a new registered agent will result in administrative dissolution of the business.", "citation": "ORS 63.647 (Grounds for administrative dissolution, limited liability companies)", "source_url": "https://sos.oregon.gov/business/pages/registered-agents-service-of-process.aspx", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "text is verbatim from the official Registered Agents and Service of Process FAQ page (primary sos.oregon.gov source, upgrading the prior draft's unconfirmed citation). Citation is now the specific LLC administrative-dissolution section title as listed in the cached oregon.public.law table of contents for chapter 63 ('63.647 Grounds for administrative dissolution'); the equivalent corporation-chapter section number (ORS 60.xxx) is not in the cache." }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "An entity cannot designate itself as its own registered agent, but an individual owner can be the registered agent for their business. The registered agent must have a physical street address in Oregon (no P.O. box or mail-forwarding business) where they maintain a business office during normal business hours and can accept or sign for legal service.", "source_url": "https://sos.oregon.gov/business/pages/registered-agents-service-of-process.aspx", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "verbatim from the official Registered Agents and Service of Process FAQ page (upgrades the prior draft's unconfirmed claim to a directly-quoted primary source)." }, "notes": "Two cached pages confirm the same content at slightly different case-sensitive URLs (registered-agents-service-of-process.aspx, both lower- and mixed-case), used interchangeably as source_url above. The direct PDF link previously assumed for the change-of-registered-agent form (corp-llc-change-registered-agent-adress.pdf) is a dead link (404) on the current sos.oregon.gov site - Oregon's Corporation Division site was restructured since that URL was first recorded, and no working replacement PDF or online-portal deep link was found in the cache, so form_url stays null. Oregon's annual filing is called 'Renewal' rather than 'Annual Report' in the state's own materials; both LLCs and for-profit/professional corporations renew at $100/year, nonprofit corporations at $50/year." }, { "state": "Pennsylvania", "abbr": "PA", "slug": "pennsylvania", "filing_office": { "name": "Pennsylvania Department of State, Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations", "url": "https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dos.html", "source_url": "https://www.pa.gov/content/dam/copapwp-pagov/en/dos/programs/business/forms/offsite-forms/15-1507_5507_8625_8825-Statement-of-Chng-of-Registered-Office.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "15 Pa.C.S. § 8825", "corp_citation": "15 Pa.C.S. § 1507", "url": "https://www.palegis.us/statutes/consolidated/view-statute?txtType=HTM&ttl=15&div=0&chpt=88&sctn=25&subsctn=0", "quote": null, "source_url": "https://www.palegis.us/statutes/consolidated/view-statute?txtType=HTM&ttl=15&div=0&chpt=88&sctn=25&subsctn=0", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "citations corroborated by Justia and the official PA General Assembly (palegis.us / legis.state.pa.us) URL structure; two direct WebFetch attempts on palegis.us and legis.state.pa.us both failed with connection-refused errors, so no verbatim quote was obtained - call cap reached. 2026-09-09 pass: today's new cache (data/sources/pennsylvania/, 6 new files) is the pa.gov annual-reports page, the certificates-of-annual-registration page, and four DSCB form PDFs (15-146(f) Annual Report Update, 15-3331 Benefit Corp Annual Report, 15-412 Foreign Registration Statement, a barber-school form) - none is a statute page for § 1507 or § 8825, so quote is still not obtainable from cache. No re-fetch attempted (no WebFetch allowed this pass)." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Statement/Certificate of Change of Registered Office (DSCB: 15-1507/5507/8625/8825)", "form_url": "https://www.pa.gov/content/dam/copapwp-pagov/en/dos/programs/business/forms/offsite-forms/15-1507_5507_8625_8825-Statement-of-Chng-of-Registered-Office.pdf", "fee_llc_usd": 5, "fee_corp_usd": 5, "online_filing": true, "online_url": "https://file.dos.pa.gov/", "online_note": "Business Filing Services (BFS) portal handles PA business filings online; confirmed generally (not specific to this one form) on today's cached annual-reports and certificates-of-annual-registration pages, e.g. 'For immediate processing, this form should be submitted online at file.dos.pa.gov. Paper forms will not be expedited.' (cached DSCB:15-146(f) Annual Report Update form, which itself handles a same-year registered-office-address change with no fee).", "mail_to": "Pennsylvania Department of State, Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations, P.O. Box 8722, Harrisburg, PA 17105-8722", "source_url": "https://www.pa.gov/content/dam/copapwp-pagov/en/dos/programs/business/forms/offsite-forms/15-1507_5507_8625_8825-Statement-of-Chng-of-Registered-Office.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "form_name/form_url/fee_llc_usd/fee_corp_usd/online_filing kept from the prior pass (search synthesis, not independently fetched - that PDF is still not in the cache as of 2026-09-09). 2026-09-09 pass: online_url and mail_to added from today's cache - the file.dos.pa.gov BFS portal and the 'P.O. Box 8722, Harrisburg, PA 17105-8722' Bureau mailing address both appear verbatim, with phone (717) 787-1057, on multiple newly-cached official DSCB forms (15-412 Foreign Registration Statement, 15-146(f) Annual Report Update, 15-3331 Benefit Corp Annual Report) as the Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations' standard filing address - not confirmed specific to the 15-1507/5507/8625/8825 form itself, since that PDF remains outside the cache. online_note likewise general, not form-specific. Do not treat fee_llc_usd/fee_corp_usd as re-verified." }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Report", "due": "Corporations (business and nonprofit), domestic and foreign: June 30. Limited liability companies, domestic and foreign: September 30. Limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, business trusts, professional associations, domestic and foreign: December 31.", "due_rule": "Corporations (business and nonprofit) domestic and foreign - Jan. 1 - Jun. 30. Limited liability companies domestic and foreign - Jan. 1 - Sept. 30. All other associations (limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, business trusts, professional associations) domestic and foreign - Jan. 1 - Dec. 31.", "fee_llc_usd": 7, "fee_corp_usd": 7, "late_fee_usd": null, "source_url": "https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dos/programs/business/types-of-filings-and-registrations/annual-reports", "accessed": "2026-09-09", "note": "Filled 2026-09-09 from the newly-cached official annual-reports page. Fee verbatim: 'The fee is $7 for business corporations, limited liability companies (LLCs), limited partnerships (LPs) and limited liability general partnerships (LLPs). There is no fee for nonprofit corporations and any LPs or LLCs with a not-for-profit purpose.' late_fee_usd left null on purpose: there is no flat dollar late fee for this Annual Report - the consequence of not filing is administrative dissolution/cancellation/termination six months after the due date, beginning with reports not filed in 2027 (2025-2026 carries a statutory transition grace period, Act 122 of 2022; no dissolution risk yet). Separate and distinct from this Annual Report: LLPs/LLLPs and restricted professional companies (RPCs/PLLCs) also owe an annual Certificate of Annual Registration (CAR), due April 15 each year, fee $700/member (PLLC) or $470/general partner (LLP/LLLP) for 2026, with a lien plus a further $500 penalty if not filed by May 15 (source: https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dos/programs/business/types-of-filings-and-registrations/certificates-of-annual-registration, accessed 2026-09-09) - not folded into fee_llc_usd/fee_corp_usd here since CAR is a different filing type from the LLC/corp Annual Report." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "Failure to maintain a registered office is grounds for administrative dissolution; until compliance is restored the entity cannot maintain lawsuits, enforce contracts, or collect debts (citation below not independently verified against a cached statute page). Separate matter, corrected 2026-09-09: failure to file the Annual Report [DSCB:15-146] carries no flat dollar penalty - per the cache it leads to administrative dissolution (domestic filing entity), administrative cancellation (domestic LLP) or administrative termination of registration (foreign association), each six months after the due date, beginning with Annual Reports not filed in 2027 (2025-2026 is a statutory transition/grace period, Act 122 of 2022). The '$500 penalty ... within 60 days' previously logged here for a late Annual Report was incorrect: that $500 lien penalty actually belongs to a different filing, the Certificate of Annual Registration (CAR), owed only by LLPs/LLLPs/PLLCs, due April 15, with the $500 penalty triggered if not filed by May 15.", "citation": "15 Pa.C.S. § 381; 15 Pa.C.S. § 411 (both unverified against cache); 15 Pa.C.S. § 146 (Annual Report, verified 2026-09-09); 15 Pa.C.S. §§ 8221, 8998 (CAR, verified 2026-09-09)", "source_url": "https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dos/programs/business/types-of-filings-and-registrations/annual-reports", "accessed": "2026-09-09", "note": "2026-09-09 correction pass: no statute page for § 381/§ 411 (registered-office dissolution grounds) is in the cache, so that half of the text stays unverified as before. The Annual Report non-filing consequence and the CAR penalty are now verified against the newly-cached official pa.gov pages (annual-reports and certificates-of-annual-registration, both accessed 2026-09-09) and the earlier $500/60-day figure attributed to the Annual Report is corrected accordingly - it does not belong there." }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": null, "conditions": null, "source_url": null, "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "not in cached official pages 2026-09-09. PA's registered-office regime lets an association list either a street address (no P.O. box) or a Commercial Registered Office Provider (CROP) as its registered office (confirmed on today's annual-reports page), which suggests a business may use its own address without a commercial agent, but no cached page states this as an explicit own-agent-allowed rule with conditions, so left null rather than inferred." }, "notes": "Pennsylvania replaced its decennial report with an annual report effective 2025 (Act 122 of 2022); 2025 and 2026 filings carry no dissolution penalty (now cache-confirmed: dissolution risk begins only with reports not filed in 2027). Two direct WebFetch attempts to PA's official statute host failed with connection-refused errors (an earlier pass, before the current no-WebFetch/cache-only rule); ra_statute.quote is still not obtainable from cache. 2026-09-09 pass: read the 6 newly-cached pa.gov files in full (annual-reports page, certificates-of-annual-registration page, and DSCB form PDFs 15-146(f) Annual Report Update, 15-3331 Benefit Corp Annual Report, 15-412 Foreign Registration Statement, plus an unrelated barber-school form). Filled annual_report in full (name/due/due_rule/fee_llc_usd/fee_corp_usd all now source_url-backed; late_fee_usd stays null - none exists for this filing). Corrected penalty_no_agent: the $500/60-day late-Annual-Report penalty on file was wrong, that figure belongs to the separate Certificate of Annual Registration (LLPs/LLLPs/PLLCs only, due April 15, $500 penalty if not filed by May 15) - now cited to that page instead. Added change_agent.online_url and mail_to from the Bureau's mailing address and file.dos.pa.gov portal as they appear verbatim across today's cached DSCB forms, though the specific Statement of Change of Registered Office PDF (DSCB:15-1507/5507/8625/8825) that backs form_name/form_url/fee_llc_usd/fee_corp_usd is still not itself in the cache - those four fields remain unverified from the prior pass, unchanged per the keep-existing-source_url rule. ra_statute.quote and own_agent_allowed remain null - no statute text or own-agent rule is in any cached page as of 2026-09-09." }, { "state": "Rhode Island", "abbr": "RI", "slug": "rhode-island", "filing_office": { "name": "Rhode Island Department of State, Business Services Division", "url": "https://www.sos.ri.gov", "source_url": "https://www.sos.ri.gov/divisions/business-services/foreign-business/business-basics/costs-and-fees", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-16-11 (\"Resident agent\")", "corp_citation": "R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-501", "url": "https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE7/7-1.2/7-5/7-1.2-501.htm", "quote": "Each corporation shall have and continuously maintain in this state: (1) A registered office, which may be, but need not be, the same as its place of business.", "source_url": "https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE7/7-1.2/7-5/7-1.2-501.htm", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "corporation quote attributed to the official webserver.rilegislature.gov text by the search tool; LLC section (§7-16-11, titled 'Resident agent') citation confirmed via the same official host but no verbatim LLC text was retrieved - call cap reached" }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Statement of Change of Registered Agent (Business Corporation) / separate LLC version", "form_url": "https://docs.sos.ri.gov/documents/BusinessServices/640-change-of-registered-agent-business-corporation.pdf", "fee_llc_usd": 20, "fee_corp_usd": 20, "online_filing": true, "source_url": "https://docs.sos.ri.gov/documents/BusinessServices/640-change-of-registered-agent-business-corporation.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "direct WebFetch of the official PDF returned unreadable/corrupted content; $20 base fee (+$2 online) from search synthesis, not independently confirmed - call cap reached" }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Report", "due": null, "due_rule": null, "fee_llc_usd": 50, "fee_corp_usd": 50, "late_fee_usd": 25, "source_url": "https://www.sos.ri.gov/divisions/business-services/foreign-business/business-basics/costs-and-fees", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "due date is DISPUTED between sources returned in the same search: one statement says corporations file Jan 1-March 1 and LLCs Sept 1-Nov 1, while another statement in the same result says the LLC due date is May 1 with a 30-day grace period before a $25 late fee. Left null pending resolution rather than guessing which is correct." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "Any incorporator, officer, agent, or servant of a corporation who designates a registered agent without that agent's authority is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $1,000, imprisonment of up to one year, or both.", "citation": "R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-501", "source_url": "https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE7/7-1.2/7-5/7-1.2-501.htm", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "this is the penalty for unauthorized designation of an agent, not specifically for having no agent at all; no separate no-agent penalty (e.g. administrative revocation) was confirmed - call cap reached" }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "an individual resident in Rhode Island whose business office is identical with the registered office; if the agent is an attorney, the business address need not be identical to the registered office and may instead be the attorney's usual business address", "source_url": "https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE7/7-1.2/7-5/7-1.2-501.htm", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "notes": "Annual report due date is an unresolved disagreement between two statements returned from the same official-citing search (Jan-Mar/Sept-Nov window vs. a May 1 deadline) - see annual_report.note. Direct WebFetch of the SOS change-of-agent PDF failed to render readable text." }, { "state": "South Carolina", "abbr": "SC", "slug": "south-carolina", "filing_office": { "name": "South Carolina Secretary of State, Business Filings Division", "url": "https://sos.sc.gov", "source_url": "https://businessfilings.sc.gov", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "S.C. Code § 33-44-108", "corp_citation": "S.C. Code § 33-5-101", "url": "https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t33c044.php", "quote": "A limited liability company and a foreign limited liability company authorized to do business in this State shall designate and continuously maintain in this State:", "source_url": "https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t33c044.php", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "confirmed by direct WebFetch of the official scstatehouse.gov page; corporation section (§33-5-101) opening sentence, also directly fetched, reads: 'Each corporation must continuously maintain in this State:'" }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Notice of Change of Registered Office or Registered Agent or Both (Form F0077/F0078 corp; separate LLC form)", "form_url": "https://businessfilings.sc.gov/BusinessFiling/Home/DownloadForms?pdfCategoryId=8", "fee_llc_usd": 10, "fee_corp_usd": 10, "online_filing": true, "source_url": "https://businessfilings.sc.gov/BusinessFiling/Home/DownloadForms?pdfCategoryId=8", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "standard fee is $10, +$5 if filed online, per search synthesis of the official businessfilings.sc.gov forms page; not independently WebFetched to confirm exact figure - call cap reached", "online_url": "https://businessfilings.sc.gov", "online_note": "\"In addition to filing online, the public may access forms in PDF format in the Business Filings Online system.\" (sos.sc.gov business entities page); the specific portal URL for filing the change-of-agent statement itself is not in cache beyond the Business Filings Online system homepage.", "mail_to": null, "mail_to_note": "not in cached official pages 2026-09-08 (only the Division of Public Charities mailing address, 1205 Pendleton St. Suite 525, Columbia SC 29201, is cached, which is a different SOS division from Business Filings)" }, "annual_report": { "name": null, "due": null, "due_rule": null, "fee_llc_usd": null, "fee_corp_usd": 25, "fee_note_llc": "not applicable - see note", "late_fee_usd": null, "source_url": "https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t12c020.php", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "South Carolina has no Secretary of State annual report requirement for most LLCs; corporations (and LLCs taxed as corporations) file an Initial Annual Report (Form CL-1) with a minimum $25 license fee per S.C. Code §§12-20-50/12-20-100(C), then report annually to the Department of Revenue, not the Secretary of State - due date/late fee not confirmed - call cap reached" }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "If a limited liability company or foreign limited liability company fails to appoint or maintain an agent for service of process in this State or the agent for service of process cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the agent's address, the Secretary of State is an agent of the company upon whom process, notice, or demand may be served.", "citation": "S.C. Code Ann. § 33-44-111(b)", "source_url": "https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t33c044.php", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "LLC-specific (Chapter 44 of Title 33, the only statute chapter in cache); corporation equivalent (Title 33, Chapter 5/6) not in cached official pages 2026-09-08. Separately, S.C. Code § 33-44-809 provides the Secretary of State may administratively dissolve an LLC that does not pay a fee, tax, or penalty within 60 days after due, but that ground is nonpayment, not specifically failure to maintain an agent." }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "for LLCs, an agent must be an individual resident of South Carolina, a domestic corporation, another LLC, or a foreign corporation/LLC authorized to do business in the state; for corporations, an individual who resides in the state and whose business office is identical with the registered office", "source_url": "https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t33c044.php", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "LLC clause from search synthesis of the same official host already directly fetched for the corp clause" }, "notes": "South Carolina's ordinary business filings (registration, registered-agent changes) run through the Secretary of State, but ongoing annual reporting for most entities runs through the Department of Revenue rather than the Secretary of State - this is a structural difference from the other nine states in this batch. Penalty-for-no-agent could not be confirmed within the call budget. 2026-09-08 pass: full text of S.C. Code Title 33 Chapter 44 (LLC Act) is now cached (scstatehouse.gov/code/t33c044.php), confirming the $10 statutory fee for a statement of change of designated office/agent (§ 33-44-1204(a)(9), matches existing change_agent fee), the own_agent_allowed LLC clause (§ 33-44-108(b), matches existing), and supplying the penalty_no_agent text (§ 33-44-111(b), service on the Secretary of State). Corporation-chapter statute text, Department of Revenue annual-report due date/late fee, and a Business Filings mailing address remain outside the cache." }, { "state": "South Dakota", "abbr": "SD", "slug": "south-dakota", "filing_office": { "name": "South Dakota Secretary of State, Business Services Division", "url": "https://sdsos.gov/business-services/default.aspx", "source_url": "https://sdsos.gov/business-services/default.aspx", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": null, "corp_citation": null, "url": "https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/59-11", "quote": null, "source_url": "https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/59-11", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "SDCL ch. 59-11 (South Dakota Registered Agents Act) identified via an sdsos.gov/sdlegislature.gov-restricted search, but exact section number and a verbatim quote could not be retrieved: sdlegislature.gov is a JavaScript single-page app that returns no statutory text to fetch, and Justia (secondary fallback) returned HTTP 403 on direct fetch. quota stop 2026-09-08." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Statement of Change of Registered Agent and/or Address", "form_url": "https://sosenterprise.sd.gov/BusinessServices/Business/SOCInstr.aspx", "fee_llc_usd": 10, "fee_corp_usd": 10, "online_filing": true, "source_url": "https://sdsos.gov/general-information/filing-fees.aspx", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Report", "due": "1st day of the anniversary month of formation", "due_rule": "Annual reports are due EVERY YEAR on the 1st day of the anniversary month of when the business was initially filed with the Secretary of State's office.", "fee_llc_usd": 55, "fee_corp_usd": 55, "late_fee_usd": 55, "source_url": "https://sdsos.gov/Division%20of%20Business%20Services/FAQs/default.aspx", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "Administratively dissolved/revoked for failure to keep a valid South Dakota Registered Agent on file with the Secretary of State's office.", "citation": null, "source_url": "https://sdsos.gov/Division%20of%20Business%20Services/FAQs/default.aspx", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "A registered agent MUST be a resident of South Dakota, with BOTH a physical and mailing address in South Dakota. An office holder of the organization may serve as registered agent; per the SOS FAQ this specific option does NOT apply to LLCs.", "source_url": "https://sdsos.gov/Division%20of%20Business%20Services/FAQs/default.aspx", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "notes": "Statute citation/quote incomplete: sdlegislature.gov is unfetchable (JS SPA) and Justia 403'd. Fee schedule and SOS FAQ pages were fetchable and gave clean official data." }, { "state": "Tennessee", "abbr": "TN", "slug": "tennessee", "filing_office": { "name": "Tennessee Secretary of State, Division of Business Services", "url": "https://sos.tn.gov/businesses", "source_url": "https://sos.tn.gov/businesses", "accessed": "2026-09-09" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-249-109 (Registered office and registered agent)", "corp_citation": "Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-15-101 (Registered office and registered agent)", "url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/tennessee/title-48/limited-liability-companies/chapter-249/part-1/section-48-249-109/", "quote": "Each domestic and foreign LLC shall continuously maintain in this state: (1) A registered office, which may be the same as any of its places of business; and", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/tennessee/title-48/limited-liability-companies/chapter-249/part-1/section-48-249-109/", "accessed": "2026-09-09", "note": "2026-09-09: llc_citation and quote are now independently verified verbatim against the cached law.justia.com Title 48 section 48-249-109 page (secondary tier -- justia, not the official Tennessee Code Unannotated site, which was not in the fetch job's cache; sos.tn.gov itself still returns 403 to direct fetch). corp_citation (48-15-101, Chapter 15 corporations) remains unconfirmed -- only the Chapter 249 (LLC Act) statute pages were fetched, no corp-chapter page is in the cache." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Statement of Change of Registered Agent/Office by Entity or Agent (Form SS-4534)", "form_url": null, "fee_llc_usd": 20, "fee_corp_usd": 20, "online_filing": null, "source_url": "https://sos.tn.gov/businesses/services/business-forms-fees", "accessed": "2026-09-09", "note": "2026-09-09: form_name and the $20 fee for SS-4534 are now confirmed verbatim from the cached Business Forms & Fees page (the fee is uniform at $20 across domestic/foreign corporations, LLCs, LPs and LLPs on that page). form_url stays null -- this page was fetched as plain text (method: urllib) with no link hrefs preserved, so no PDF URL could be extracted; tnbear.tn.gov/Ecommerce/RAChangeInstr.aspx (the prior candidate) remains unreachable per the 2026-09-08 bank test. online_filing corrected from the prior pass's unconfirmed \"true\" to null: the forms & fees page presents SS-4534 only as a downloadable PDF form, and no cached page states that a registered-agent/office change specifically can be filed online (only annual reports and new-business filings are named as going through the TNCaB online portal)." }, "annual_report": { "name": null, "due": null, "due_rule": null, "fee_llc_usd": null, "fee_corp_usd": null, "late_fee_usd": null, "source_url": null, "accessed": "2026-09-09", "note": "2026-09-09 correction: the $300/$20 figures carried in this block from the pre-cache pass are NOT supported by either cached sos.tn.gov page -- the Business Forms & Fees page (now fully fetched) lists entity filing forms (charters, amendments, dissolutions, registered-agent changes, etc.) and contains no \"Annual Report\" fee line at all; the $300 figure on that page is the Articles of Organization (LLC formation) fee, a different filing entirely. The sos.tn.gov/businesses homepage only shows a banner directing filers to the TNCaB online portal to file the Annual Report, with no fee or due-date text. All annual_report fields reset to null rather than repeat an unverified figure as fact; the actual Annual Report fee schedule appears to live behind the TNCaB portal or a page not in this cache." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "If the secretary of state determines grounds exist for dissolving an LLC (including failure to maintain a registered agent, under a related provision not in this cache), the secretary serves written notice of the determination. If the LLC does not correct the ground or show it does not exist within two months after that notice, the secretary of state administratively dissolves the LLC by signing a certificate of dissolution. Administrative dissolution does not terminate the designation or authority of the LLC's registered agent or registered office. Separately, whenever a registered agent cannot be found with reasonable diligence, the secretary of state is deemed an agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served.", "citation": "Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-249-605 (Procedure for and effect of administrative dissolution); § 48-249-112 (Service on LLC, not independently verified against cache)", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/tennessee/title-48/limited-liability-companies/chapter-249/part-6/section-48-249-605/", "accessed": "2026-09-09", "note": "2026-09-09: the section 48-249-605 dissolution procedure (2-month cure window after notice, then administrative dissolution, and that dissolution doesn't end the registered agent's authority) is now confirmed verbatim from the cached justia page. The specific ground \"failure to maintain a registered agent\" lives in section 48-249-604 (grounds for dissolution), which is referenced but not itself cached, and the section 48-249-112 service-on-secretary-of-state sentence is carried over from the pre-cache pass, still unverified verbatim against any cached page." }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "A registered agent \"who maintains an office at the same street address as the registered office\" may be: \"(A) An individual who resides in this state, a domestic corporation, a not-for-profit domestic corporation, a domestic LLC, a domestic general partnership, a domestic limited partnership, or a domestic registered limited liability partnership; or (B) A foreign corporation, a not-for-profit foreign corporation, a foreign LLC, a foreign general partnership, a foreign limited partnership, or a foreign registered limited liability partnership that is authorized to transact business in this state.\" The LLC itself is not listed as an eligible registered agent for itself.", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/tennessee/title-48/limited-liability-companies/chapter-249/part-1/section-48-249-109/", "accessed": "2026-09-09", "note": "2026-09-09: replaces the prior pass's paraphrase with the verbatim statutory list from the same cached section 48-249-109 page used for ra_statute. Unlike Delaware, Tennessee's LLC statute does not list \"the LLC itself\" among the eligible registered-agent options -- an individual member/owner can serve personally if a state resident, but the entity cannot name itself." }, "notes": "2026-09-09 pass, fetch job cache (6 files: sos.tn.gov/businesses, sos.tn.gov/businesses/services/business-forms-fees, tnbear.tn.gov RAChangeInstr.aspx (still unreachable), and three law.justia.com Title 48 Chapter 249 pages -- part-1 index, section 48-249-109, section 48-249-605). Confirms verbatim: LLC registered-agent statute text and citation, the SS-4534 form name and $20 fee, the administrative-dissolution procedure, and the eligible-registered-agent list (which excludes the LLC itself). Corrects two unsupported carry-over facts to null: the annual_report fee/due block (no annual-report fee schedule page is in the cache; the Business Forms & Fees page does not contain one) and change_agent.online_filing (no cached page states RA changes can be filed online). Still null and unconfirmed: corp_citation/corp_quote (no Chapter 15 corp statute page cached), change_agent.form_url (forms & fees page fetched as plain text with hrefs stripped), and the full section 48-249-112/604 text (referenced but not independently cached)." }, { "state": "Texas", "abbr": "TX", "slug": "texas", "filing_office": { "name": "Texas Secretary of State, Corporations Section", "url": "https://www.sos.texas.gov/corp/index.shtml", "source_url": "https://www.sos.texas.gov/corp/forms_boc.shtml", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 5.201 (Designation and Maintenance of Registered Agent and Registered Office)", "corp_citation": "Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 5.201 (Designation and Maintenance of Registered Agent and Registered Office)", "url": "https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BO/htm/BO.5.htm", "quote": null, "source_url": "https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BO/htm/BO.5.htm", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Texas's unified Business Organizations Code Sec. 5.201 governs registered agents for all filing entities (LLC and corporation alike). The official statutes.capitol.texas.gov page returned only a navigation frame to fetch (no statutory text), and Justia 403'd on direct fetch, so no verbatim quote was obtained within call cap. quota stop 2026-09-08." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Form 401 - Statement of Change of Registered Office/Registered Agent", "form_url": "https://www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/forms/401_boc.pdf", "fee_llc_usd": 15, "fee_corp_usd": 15, "online_filing": true, "source_url": "https://www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/instructions/401.shtml", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Fee is $5 instead of $15 for a nonprofit corporation or cooperative association. Online filing via SOSDirect (direct.sos.state.tx.us).", "online_url": "https://www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/sosda/index.shtml", "online_note": "File Form 401 online through SOSDirect.", "mail_to": null, "mail_to_note": "not in cached official pages 2026-09-08 (no SOS Corporations Section mailing address found in the cached forms/FAQ pages)" }, "annual_report": { "name": "Public Information Report (Form 05-102), filed with the Franchise Tax Report", "due": "May 15", "due_rule": "Franchise tax reports are due on May 15 each year. If May 15 falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, the next business day becomes the due date.", "fee_llc_usd": null, "fee_corp_usd": null, "late_fee_usd": 50, "source_url": "https://comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/franchise/filing-requirements.php", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Texas has no flat annual-report filing fee; the Public Information Report is filed alongside the annual Franchise Tax Report (administered by the Comptroller, not the Secretary of State), and the tax owed is revenue-based rather than a fixed report fee, so fee_llc_usd/fee_corp_usd are null by design, not missing data. The $50 figure is the late-filing penalty, confirmed even for $0-tax-due filers." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "A Texas filing entity may be served through the Secretary of State if the entity fails to appoint or maintain a registered agent; or the entity's registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the registered office. [Also, per the Registered Agents FAQ:] Failure to appoint or maintain a registered agent and registered office may result in the involuntary termination of a domestic filing entity or the revocation of a foreign filing entity's registration.", "citation": "Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 5.251 (service on the Secretary of State)", "source_url": "https://www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/faqs-sop.shtml", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "2026-09-08: upgraded from the prior Justia secondary-tier paraphrase (403'd on direct fetch, never independently verified) to the Texas SOS's own Service of Process FAQ page (paraphrasing sec. 5.251, since statutes.capitol.texas.gov itself serves only a JS nav shell) plus its Registered Agents FAQ, both now cached. Exact BOC section number for the involuntary-termination/revocation consequence is not stated on either FAQ page." }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "Generally, an individual Texas resident or an organization that is registered or authorized to do business in Texas with a business office at the same address as the entity's registered office may consent to serve as the registered agent. Although an officer, owner, or employee may serve as an entity's registered agent, an entity may not serve as its own registered agent. The secretary of state, or other governmental agency or authority, cannot serve as an entity's registered agent.", "source_url": "https://www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/registeredagentfaqs.shtml", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "notes": "statutes.capitol.texas.gov serves only a JS/frame shell to WebFetch; law.justia.com returned HTTP 403 to WebFetch site-wide across every state tried in this batch, so all Justia-derived Texas facts are search-summary paraphrases, not independently fetched verbatim text. 2026-09-08 pass: statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BO/htm/BO.5.htm re-fetched via urllib, still returns only the site's JS navigation shell (no statutory text) so ra_statute.quote stays null. The official sos.state.tx.us Registered Agents FAQ and Service-of-Process FAQ pages are now cached and supplied own_agent_allowed and a primary-source penalty_no_agent (replacing the earlier Justia secondary-source paraphrase). SOSDirect online-filing URL added to change_agent; no SOS mailing address found in cache for mail_to." }, { "state": "Utah", "abbr": "UT", "slug": "utah", "filing_office": { "name": "Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code (Dept. of Commerce)", "url": "https://corporations.utah.gov/", "source_url": "https://corporations.utah.gov/renewal-process/", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "Utah Code § 16-17-101 et seq. (Model Registered Agents Act)", "corp_citation": "Utah Code § 16-17-101 et seq. (Model Registered Agents Act)", "url": "https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title16/Chapter17/C16-17_1800010118000101.pdf", "quote": null, "source_url": "https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title16/Chapter17/C16-17_1800010118000101.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Utah's Title 16 Chapter 17 Model Registered Agents Act applies to both LLCs and corporations (confirmed via le.utah.gov-restricted search), but the official PDF returned only raw encoded stream data to WebFetch (not extractable text), so exact subsection and a verbatim quote were not obtained. quota stop 2026-09-08." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Registration Information Change Form", "form_url": "https://corporations.utah.gov/registration-information-change-forms/", "fee_llc_usd": null, "fee_corp_usd": null, "online_filing": true, "source_url": "https://corporations.utah.gov/business-registration-information-changes/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Fee is disputed between two search results ($13 per record vs. $17.00 processing fee for the Registration Information Change Form) — see notes/disagreement. corporations.utah.gov returned HTTP 403 to direct WebFetch so the conflict could not be resolved within call cap; left null rather than guess." }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Renewal", "due": null, "due_rule": null, "fee_llc_usd": null, "fee_corp_usd": null, "late_fee_usd": null, "source_url": "https://corporations.utah.gov/renewal-process/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "corporations.utah.gov fee-schedule and renewal pages returned HTTP 403 to direct WebFetch; search results referenced a fee schedule but did not surface dollar amounts or the due-date rule. quota stop 2026-09-08." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "If the division determines grounds exist for administratively dissolving an entity, it serves notice and the entity has 60 days to cure or demonstrate the grounds do not exist.", "citation": "Utah Code § 48-3a-708 (LLC administrative dissolution)", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title48/Chapter3A/C48-3a-S708_1800010118000101.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Search result titles for this section read 'Repealed 10/1/2026' and a companion 'Renumbered 10/1/2026' — Utah's LLC dissolution provisions appear to be mid-recodification; effective section number after 10/1/2026 not confirmed. Corporation-specific penalty citation not found within call cap." }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "\"The Registered Agent is a business or individual designated to receive service of process when a business entity is a party in a legal action such as a lawsuit or summons. The Division also sends all correspondence to the Registered Agent. A Utah street address is required.\"", "source_url": "https://www.corporations.utah.gov/business-entities/considerations-in-forming-a-limited-liability-company//1000", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "cached LLC- and corporation-formation guidance requires only a Utah street address for the registered office/agent and does not state a residency or business-hours restriction on who may serve; no statute text (Utah Code Title 16 Ch. 17, Model Registered Agents Act) was extractable from the cached PDF or the le.utah.gov statute page (JS nav shell, no text), so an explicit statutory own-agent rule is not confirmed" }, "notes": "DISAGREEMENT: one official-domain search result states the registered-agent-change fee is $13 per record; another states $17.00 for the Registration Information Change Form. Not resolved — corporations.utah.gov blocked direct WebFetch (403) before it could be checked against the live fee schedule. 2026-09-08 pass: cache re-checked (7 files under data/sources/utah/). corporations.utah.gov/business-entities/fees/ and .../annual-renewal/ both cached as either an unrelated DCP pawnshop-fees page or a bare JS nav shell with no page body -- neither carries LLC/corp fee or renewal-due-date data, so the $13-vs-$17 change-agent-fee disagreement and the annual-renewal due date/fee remain unresolved and null. le.utah.gov/xcode/Title16/Chapter17/16-17-S301.html is confirmed (re-read in full this pass) to be a JS navigation shell with no statute text at all -- just the Utah Legislature site chrome. The LLC-formation guidance page does independently confirm 'LLCs ... must file an Annual Report' and cites U.C.A. Title 48 Chapter 3a sections (201, 203, 212) in the same '48-3a-Sxxx' citation format as the existing penalty_no_agent citation (48-3a-708), corroborating that chapter/section-number pattern as real, but none of those specific section pages are themselves in the cache, so no due date, fee, or verbatim penalty text was recoverable. FLAG for a future pass with fetch access: penalty_no_agent.source_url (le.utah.gov/xcode/Title48/Chapter3A/C48-3a-S708_1800010118000101.pdf) is not among the 7 files currently cached under data/sources/utah/ -- it could not be re-verified against the live cache this pass and was left exactly as the prior journal recorded it, per the rule to keep blocks that already carry a source_url. filing_office, ra_statute, change_agent and annual_report kept unchanged (already carry source_url); own_agent_allowed unchanged (already filled from the cached LLC-formation guidance page)." }, { "state": "Vermont", "abbr": "VT", "slug": "vermont", "filing_office": { "name": "Vermont Secretary of State, Corporations Division", "url": "https://sos.vermont.gov/business-services/business-filings", "source_url": "https://sos.vermont.gov/business-services/business-filings/registered-office-agent-filings", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": null, "corp_citation": null, "url": "https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/title/11A", "quote": null, "source_url": "https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/title/11A", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Title 11A governs Vermont Business Corporations and Title 11 Chapter 25 covers LLCs, but the exact registered-agent-designation section number and a verbatim quote were not confirmed within call cap before quota stop. 11 V.S.A. § 4012 was found but governs filing/service fees, not the designation requirement itself. quota stop 2026-09-08." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Statement of Change of Registered Agent/Registered Office", "form_url": "https://sos.vermont.gov/business-services/business-filings/registered-office-agent-filings", "fee_llc_usd": 35, "fee_corp_usd": 25, "online_filing": true, "source_url": "https://sos.vermont.gov/business-services/fees-statutes", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Statement of Change fee for a domestic LLC is $35.00 (11 V.S.A. § 4008, fee set under § 4012); for a domestic business corporation it is $25.00 (11A V.S.A. § 5.02, fee set under § 1.22) -- these are two DIFFERENT fees, confirmed directly on the official fees-statutes page 2026-09-08, correcting the prior pass's flat $35/$35 guess for fee_corp_usd. Mailing address is the SOS Business Services Division's general address (from the Annual/Biennial Reports page footer), not confirmed as form-401-specific.", "online_url": "https://sos.vermont.gov/business-services", "online_note": "\"All filings must be completed online. To pay by paper check, select I Want to Print & Mail With Check...\" (from the Online Business Service Center flow described on the Annual/Biennial Reports page; the exact login URL for the Online Business Service Center portal is not in cache).", "mail_to": "Vermont Secretary of State, Business Services Division, 128 State Street, Montpelier, VT 05633" }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Report (LLC/PLC/L3C and profit corporations) / Biennial Report (nonprofit corporations, LLPs, MBEs)", "due": null, "due_rule": "\"you must renew your business registration each fiscal year by filing an annual report within the first two and a half months (Profit Corps.) or three months (LLC/PLC/L3C) following the fiscal year end on record\"; LLPs and MBEs file annually between January 1 and April 1 regardless of fiscal year end; nonprofit corporations file a biennial report between January 1 and April 1, starting the first year after initial registration.", "fee_llc_usd": 45, "fee_corp_usd": 60, "late_fee_usd": null, "reinstatement_fee_llc_usd": 35, "reinstatement_fee_corp_usd": 50, "source_url": "https://sos.vermont.gov/business-services/fees-statutes", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "LLC annual report fee is $45.00 (11 V.S.A. § 4033); domestic business corporation annual report fee is $60.00 (11A V.S.A. § 16.22) -- both confirmed on the official fees-statutes page 2026-09-08. \"due\" has no fixed calendar date because it runs off each entity's own fiscal year end (see due_rule) for LLCs/corps; a fixed Jan 1-Apr 1 window applies only to nonprofits/LLPs/MBEs. No distinct dollar 'late fee' is listed in the cache; the closest official figure is the Reinstatement Fee charged after administrative dissolution for failure to file (LLC $35 under 11 V.S.A. § 4034, corporation $50 under 11A V.S.A. § 14.20), recorded separately above since it is not necessarily the same thing as a late-filing fee." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "The Secretary of State collects $35.00 each time process is served on the Secretary of State [as agent for an entity that fails to maintain a registered agent].", "citation": "11 V.S.A. § 4012", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/11/025/04012", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Bracketed context is this agent's interpretation of a search summary, not an official verbatim quote; the underlying dissolution/service-on-Secretary mechanism was not independently confirmed." }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": null, "conditions": null, "source_url": null, "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "quota stop 2026-09-08 — not reached" }, "notes": "Legislative proposal documents surfaced in search suggest Vermont's business-filing fee structure is under active legislative review (harmonization proposal dated Feb 2025) — worth re-checking closer to launch. 2026-09-08 pass: official fees-statutes page (sos.vermont.gov/business-services/fees-statutes) is now cached in full with per-entity-type fee tables citing exact statute sections -- corrected change_agent.fee_corp_usd from a guessed $35 to the confirmed $25 (11A V.S.A. § 5.02), and filled annual_report fees (LLC $45 / corp $60) and reinstatement fees. ra_statute and penalty_no_agent kept unchanged (already carry source_url; the only new statute text cached, 11 V.S.A. § 4005, is the LLC naming section, not the registered-agent-designation or service-of-process sections). own_agent_allowed still not in any cached page (registered-office-agent-filings page, the block's likely source, was not re-fetched this session)." }, { "state": "Virginia", "abbr": "VA", "slug": "virginia", "filing_office": { "name": "Virginia State Corporation Commission, Clerk's Office", "url": "https://www.scc.virginia.gov/businesses/", "source_url": "https://www.scc.virginia.gov/businesses/business-faqs/annual-registration-fees/", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "Va. Code § 13.1-1015 (Registered office and registered agent)", "corp_citation": null, "url": "https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title13.1/chapter12/section13.1-1015/", "quote": "Each domestic limited liability company and each foreign limited liability company registered pursuant to Article 10 of this chapter shall continuously maintain in the Commonwealth: A registered office that may be the same as any of its places of business.", "source_url": "https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title13.1/chapter12/section13.1-1015/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "LLC citation and verbatim quote confirmed directly from the official law.lis.virginia.gov statute page, now cached in full. Corporation-chapter citation (Title 13.1, Chapter 9, stock corporations) not in cache 2026-09-08 -- only the Chapter 12 (LLC Act) statute page was fetched." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Statement of Change of Registered Agent and/or Registered Office (Form SCC750 for stock corporations)", "form_url": "https://www.scc.virginia.gov/media/sccvirginiagov-home/business-home/forms-and-fees/virginia-stock-corporations/scc750.docx", "fee_llc_usd": null, "fee_corp_usd": null, "online_filing": true, "source_url": "https://www.scc.virginia.gov/businesses/business-faqs/registered-agents/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Fee not stated on the pages surfaced; Virginia SCC filings often carry no separate change fee, but this was not confirmed within call cap. Online filing available via the Clerk's Information System (CIS). 2026-09-08: fee still not confirmed -- the only dollar figure found near a registered-agent/office change filing ($10.00) is on the How-To-Guide-PO-Change.pdf and is explicitly for a corporation's Principal Office change via an amended Annual Report, not the Statement of Change of Registered Agent/Office (which the same guide says is free for LLCs: \"There is no charge to file a statement of principal office change\" / \"There is no charge to file an annual report\"); left null rather than misapply that figure.", "online_url": "https://cis.scc.virginia.gov/", "online_note": "\"use the Clerk's Information System (CIS) for real-time changes\" -- or submit an Online Forms Request for the Statement of Change of a Registered Agent And/or Registered Office to have a paper form sent to complete and mail back.", "mail_to": null, "mail_to_note": "not in cached official pages 2026-09-08 (the paper-form path is an Online Forms Request that mails the form to the filer; no fixed SCC Clerk's Office mailing address for a completed Statement of Change was found in cache)" }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Report (corporation, no fee) plus Annual Registration Fee (all active entity types)", "due": "last day of the month in which the entity was formed, incorporated, or registered to transact business in Virginia (Limited Partnerships and Business Trusts: on or before October 1 instead)", "due_rule": "\"Each active domestic and foreign stock and nonstock corporation is required to file an annual report with the Commission by the last day of the month in which it was incorporated or authorized to transact business in Virginia.\" LLC/corporation annual registration fee: \"Your due date is the last day of the month your business was organized/formed or registered.\" Limited Partnerships and Business Trusts: \"Your fee is due on or before October 1.\"", "fee_llc_usd": 50, "fee_corp_usd": 100, "fee_corp_nonstock_usd": 25, "fee_corp_note": "Stock corporations pay a share-based annual registration fee starting at $100 for 1-5,000 authorized shares and rising on a published schedule (up to $1,700 for over 270,000 shares); nonstock corporations pay a flat $25. The Annual Report FILING itself carries no fee for either; only the separate annual registration fee is owed.", "late_fee_usd": 25, "late_fee_note": "The $25 late-fee figure applies to LLCs, limited partnerships and business trusts (\"All other business types are $25\"). Stock corporations: greater of 10% of the annual fee or $10. Nonstock corporations: flat $10.", "source_url": "https://www.scc.virginia.gov/businesses/business-faqs/annual-registration-fees", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "2026-09-08: annual-registration-fees FAQ page and its an_fee.pdf are now cached in full, confirming the LLC $50 fee (already on file), adding the corporation fee schedule (stock: share-based from $100; nonstock: flat $25), and the late-penalty schedule by entity type. Citations: Va. Code §§ 13.1-775, 13.1-936 (annual report); § 13.1-775.1 (stock corp registration fee); § 13.1-936.1 (nonstock corp registration fee)." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "You have 31 days from the time [a registered agent's resignation] filing was completed to appoint a new registered agent. If a registered agent is not appointed by then, you will receive a notification that your business status changed to pending inactive. If this is not resolved by the last day of the second month after receiving the notification, your business status will change to terminated, revoked, or canceled automatically.", "citation": "not stated as a Code of Virginia section number on the cached FAQ page; procedural detail from the SCC's own Registered Agent FAQ", "source_url": "https://www.scc.virginia.gov/businesses/business-faqs/registered-agents", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "2026-09-08: replaces the prior pass's nonpayment-of-annual-fee penalty (Va. Code § 13.1-1062, still true but a different trigger) with the SCC's own registered-agent-specific penalty sequence, now cached: 31 days to appoint a replacement agent, then pending-inactive status, then automatic termination/revocation/cancellation if uncured by the end of the second month after notice. The prior § 13.1-1062 text is kept below as a related, separately-triggered penalty.", "related_nonpayment_penalty": { "text": "If the annual registration fee is not paid on or before the last day of the third month following its due date, the LLC's existence will be automatically canceled by operation of law.", "citation": "Va. Code § 13.1-1062", "source_url": "https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title13.1/chapter12/section13.1-1062/", "accessed": "2026-09-08" } }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "Registered agents must meet the following requirements: Be a Virginia resident; Have a Virginia physical business address, registered office; Be available during normal business hours. In addition, registered agents must meet one of these qualifications: a member of the Virginia State Bar, OR a member of the business entity's management (officer or director of a corporation, a member or manager of a limited liability company, a trustee of a business trust, a general partner of a limited partnership, or a partner of a registered limited liability partnership). A business entity cannot act as its own registered agent.", "source_url": "https://www.scc.virginia.gov/businesses/business-faqs/registered-agents", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "notes": "Virginia's fee model splits an LLC's flat annual registration fee from a corporation's share-based annual registration fee, and the corporation \"annual report\" filing itself is free — this asymmetry should be represented explicitly in copy, not just as a null. 2026-09-08 pass: law.lis.virginia.gov statute page for Va. Code § 13.1-1015 (LLC registered agent) and the SCC's Registered Agent FAQ, Annual Registration Fees FAQ/PDF, and Clerk's Annual Reports FAQ are now cached in full, filling ra_statute (LLC only), own_agent_allowed, a registered-agent-specific penalty_no_agent, the corporation annual-registration fee schedule, and CIS as the change_agent online_url. Still not in cache: corporation-chapter (Title 13.1, Ch. 9) registered-agent statute citation/quote, and the dollar fee for filing the Statement of Change of Registered Agent/Office itself." }, { "state": "Washington", "abbr": "WA", "slug": "washington", "filing_office": { "name": "Washington Secretary of State, Corporations & Charities Division", "url": "https://www.sos.wa.gov/corporations-charities/", "source_url": "https://www.sos.wa.gov/corporations-charities/business-entities/maintain-business-compliance/registered-agents", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "RCW 23.95.415", "corp_citation": "RCW 23.95.415", "url": "https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=23.95.415", "quote": null, "source_url": "https://www.sos.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2025-12/6.2025%20-%20Statement%20of%20Change%20or%20Designation%20of%20Agent%20-%20Non-Commercial%20Registered%20Agent%20%28Fillable%20Form%29.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Citation confirmed (RCW 23.95.415) verbatim across four official SOS forms in cache: \"All businesses must have a Registered Agent in Washington State per RCW 23.95.415.\" Washington's unified Business Organizations Code (Title 23.95, effective 2021) governs registered agents for LLCs and corporations alike, so one citation covers both. The statute page itself (app.leg.wa.gov, cite=23.95.415) is not in the cache -- only the neighboring section 23.95.410 was fetched -- so no independently-fetched verbatim statute quote and the url is built from the confirmed app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite= pattern used by the cached 23.95.410 page, not itself fetched. note 2026-09-08." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Statement of Change/Designation of Agent (Non-Commercial Registered Agent)", "form_url": "https://www.sos.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2025-12/6.2025%20-%20Statement%20of%20Change%20or%20Designation%20of%20Agent%20-%20Non-Commercial%20Registered%20Agent%20%28Fillable%20Form%29.pdf", "fee_llc_usd": 0, "fee_corp_usd": 0, "online_filing": true, "online_url": "https://ccfs.sos.wa.gov", "online_note": "a fillable .pdf version of this form is available or you can file online at https://ccfs.sos.wa.gov", "mail_to": "Washington Secretary of State, Corporations & Charities Division, PO Box 40234, Olympia, WA 98504-0234", "source_url": "https://www.sos.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2025-12/6.2025%20-%20Statement%20of%20Change%20or%20Designation%20of%20Agent%20-%20Non-Commercial%20Registered%20Agent%20%28Fillable%20Form%29.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "\"There is no filing fee to update or change the Registered Agent.\" $100 additional applies only if expedited service is requested. mail_to address confirmed on the sibling Annual Report - Profit Entity Types form, same filing office, same PO Box." }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Report", "due": "last day of the month in which the business was originally formed or registered", "due_rule": "The annual report is due by the last day of the month in which the business was originally formed or registered. An Annual Report may be filed within 180 days before the expiration or annual report due date.", "fee_llc_usd": 70, "fee_corp_usd": 70, "late_fee_usd": 25, "source_url": "https://www.sos.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2025-12/6.2025%20-%20Annual%20Report%20-%20Profit%20Entity%20Types%2023B%20M%26M%20%26%20Corp%20Sole%20%28Fillable%20Form%29.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Corrected from prior pass: filing fee is $70 for all business types except Nonprofit Misc & Mutual Corp (RCW 24.06) and Corporation Sole (RCW 24.12), who pay $10 -- LLCs and profit corporations are both in the $70 bucket, not $60 (the $60 figure on the annual-reports webpage is a leftover reference to the Nonprofit 24.03A form, a different entity class). Delinquency fee is $25, added if received after the expiration date; does not apply to Chapter RCW 24 entity types. $100 additional for expedited service." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "Failure to file this annual report by your expiration date will result in a $25 delinquency fee and may result in administrative dissolution.", "citation": "RCW 23.95.255", "source_url": "https://www.sos.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2025-12/6.2025%20-%20Annual%20Report%20-%20Profit%20Entity%20Types%2023B%20M%26M%20%26%20Corp%20Sole%20%28Fillable%20Form%29.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "This is the confirmed cache text for failure-to-file-annual-report dissolution (which includes registered agent info as required report content), sourced verbatim from the official SOS Annual Report form and RCW 23.95.255. A statute passage addressing failure to maintain a registered agent specifically (independent of the annual report) was not found in the cache; RCW 23.95.610 was cited in the prior pass from an unfetched search summary and is not confirmed here." }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "A Noncommercial Registered Agent may be an individual, a business, or an office/position within the business (e.g. President, Secretary, Treasurer, Member) -- so a business may act as its own registered agent via an internal office or position. Must be a physical street address in Washington State; no PO Box or PMB. A separate Washington State mailing address is optional.", "source_url": "https://www.sos.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2025-12/6.2025%20-%20Annual%20Report%20-%20Profit%20Entity%20Types%2023B%20M%26M%20%26%20Corp%20Sole%20%28Fillable%20Form%29.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "notes": "Corrected: change-of-agent filing fee is $0 (was null); annual report fee is $70 for LLCs/corporations, not $60 (that figure belongs to the separate Nonprofit 24.03A form); late/delinquency fee is $25. Statute citation corrected from RCW 23.95.405/410 to RCW 23.95.415, confirmed verbatim across four official forms, but the statute page itself was not in the cache so no verbatim quote could be pulled." }, { "state": "West Virginia", "abbr": "WV", "slug": "west-virginia", "filing_office": { "name": "West Virginia Secretary of State, Business & Licensing Division", "url": "https://sos.wv.gov/business", "source_url": "https://sos.wv.gov/business/updates-and-changes/annual-reports", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "W. Va. Code § 31B-1-108 (Designated Office and Agent for Service of Process)", "corp_citation": "W. Va. Code § 31D-5-501 (Registered Office and Registered Agent)", "url": "https://code.wvlegislature.gov/31B-1-108/", "quote": "An agent for a limited liability company shall be an individual resident of this state, a domestic corporation, another limited liability company or a foreign corporation or foreign company authorized to do business in this state.", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://code.wvlegislature.gov/31B-1-108/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Quote is a near-verbatim paraphrase captured via search summary of the official code.wvlegislature.gov page (not independently WebFetched to confirm exact character-for-character wording within call cap). 2026-09-09: the fetch job's re-fetch of this exact URL (data/sources/west-virginia/105838e2e8b15acd.md, status 200) returned unrelated FBI.gov Cyber-crime page content instead of the wvlegislature statute text -- a data-anomaly on the code.wvlegislature.gov fetch (likely a redirect/DNS issue on this box), not a real page. Not used as a source; this field is unchanged and still unverified verbatim." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Agent Address and/or Officer Change", "form_url": null, "fee_llc_usd": 15, "fee_corp_usd": 15, "online_filing": true, "source_url": "https://sos.wv.gov/business/Pages/AgentAddrOfficerChg.aspx", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "sos.wv.gov AgentAddrOfficerChg page returned 404 on 2026-09-08 bank test; link nulled until the new location is confirmed. 2026-09-09: re-fetched (data/sources/west-virginia/c703bc954de683dd.md) -- still a genuine WV Secretary of State \"Page not found\" response (a real 404 page, not a fetch error), so form_url stays null. No other cached page (sos.wv.gov/business, annual-reports) links a specific registered-agent-change form." }, "annual_report": { "name": "Annual Report", "due": "between January 1 and June 30 of the year following the calendar year of registration", "due_rule": "Annual reports and the $25.00 filing fee are due between January 1 and June 30 of each year following the calendar year in which the business was registered with the Office of the Secretary of State.", "fee_llc_usd": 25, "fee_corp_usd": 25, "late_fee_usd": null, "source_url": "https://sos.wv.gov/business/updates-and-changes/annual-reports", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Citation: W. Va. Code § 59-1-2a. Late fee not confirmed within call cap. 2026-09-09: re-fetched the same page (data/sources/west-virginia/404e0ec8f060727f.md) -- confirms the $25.00 filing fee and Jan 1-June 30 window verbatim, but states only \"Failure to file by the June 30 deadline may result in monetary penalties as well as administrative dissolution or revocation\" with no specific dollar late-fee figure. late_fee_usd stays null; note updated rather than guessed." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding to administratively dissolve a corporation if it does not notify the Secretary of State within 60 days that its registered agent or registered office has changed, resigned, or been discontinued; if not cured within 60 days after service of notice, the Secretary shall administratively dissolve the corporation. For an LLC, if an agent for service of process is not appointed or maintained, or cannot with reasonable diligence be found, the Secretary of State is an agent of the company upon whom process, notice or demand may be served.", "citation": "W. Va. Code § 31D-14-1421 (corporation administrative dissolution); § 31B-1-108 (LLC service on Secretary of State)", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://code.wvlegislature.gov/31D-14-1421/", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Captured via search summary of official code.wvlegislature.gov pages, not independently WebFetched verbatim within call cap. 2026-09-09: the fetch job's re-fetch of this exact URL (data/sources/west-virginia/6e710ab8f615dbf1.md, status 200) returned unrelated FBI.gov Cyber-crime page content instead of the wvlegislature statute text -- same anomaly as the ra_statute field above, not a real page. Not used; this field is unchanged and still unverified verbatim." }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "Must be an individual resident of West Virginia whose business office is identical with the registered office, or a domestic/foreign corporation or LLC authorized to transact business in the state.", "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://code.wvlegislature.gov/31D-5-501/", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "notes": "Best-covered state in this batch: form, fee, statute citations, penalty and own-agent conditions all located via a single official-domain-restricted search chain. Quotes are search-summary paraphrases of code.wvlegislature.gov text, not independently WebFetched verbatim (that site was not tried directly). 2026-09-09 pass: sos.wv.gov pages (business, annual-reports, AgentAddrOfficerChg) re-fetched cleanly and confirm the $25 annual report fee/window and the 404 on the agent-change page; no new content resolved change_agent.form_url or annual_report.late_fee_usd, both stay null. IMPORTANT: both code.wvlegislature.gov re-fetches in this pass (31B-1-108 and 31D-14-1421) returned unrelated FBI.gov page content under a 200 status instead of statute text -- a fetch/DNS anomaly on that host from this box, flagged for the human, not treated as a source. ra_statute and penalty_no_agent remain exactly as the prior pass left them (secondary-tier, unverified verbatim)." }, { "state": "Wisconsin", "abbr": "WI", "slug": "wisconsin", "filing_office": { "name": "Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions, Corporations Bureau", "url": "https://www.wdfi.org/corporations/", "source_url": "https://wdfi.org/corporations/fees/us.htm", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "Wis. Stat. § 183.0115", "corp_citation": "Wis. Stat. § 180.0501", "url": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/statutes/183.0115", "quote": null, "source_tier": "secondary", "source_url": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/statutes/183.0115", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Citations and a close paraphrase (\"each limited liability company and registered foreign LLC [must] designate and maintain a registered agent and registered office in the state\" / \"each corporation [must] designate and maintain a registered office and registered agent in the state, with the designation being an affirmation that the agent has consented to serve\") came from a docs.legis.wisconsin.gov-restricted search summary in a prior pass; not independently fetched to confirm exact verbatim wording. This pass re-attempted the statute cache: the only newly cached legis page (docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/183/i/113, a guessed URL for §183.0113) returned a 404 \"Page not found\", so it does not confirm or replace this citation. quota stop 2026-09-08." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Registered Agent and/or Registered Office Change (Form 13), or noted directly on the Annual Report", "form_url": "https://www.wdfi.org/corporations/forms/corp180forms.htm", "fee_llc_usd": 10, "fee_corp_usd": 10, "online_filing": null, "source_url": "https://www.wdfi.org/corporations/fees/us.htm", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Online-filing availability not confirmed within call cap (prior pass). This pass could not re-check: all wdfi.org URLs in the cache (fees page, CorpAR, CorpSearch, apps pages, and the bare wdfi.org homepage) failed to fetch -- \"failed after urllib URLError\", i.e. connection refused -- so no new wdfi.org content is available. Kept as-is per instructions (field already carries a source_url)." }, "annual_report": { "name": null, "due": null, "due_rule": null, "fee_llc_usd": null, "fee_corp_usd": null, "late_fee_usd": null, "source_url": null, "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "not in cached official pages 2026-09-08 -- the only wdfi.org page that would carry this (wdfi.org/corporations/annual_reports/) failed to fetch (urllib URLError, connection refused) and no re-rendered PDF for it is in the cache. No web access permitted to retry." }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": null, "citation": null, "source_url": null, "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "not in cached official pages 2026-09-08 -- no wdfi.org or docs.legis.wisconsin.gov page addressing failure-to-maintain-a-registered-agent penalties is present and readable in the cache (all wdfi.org fetches failed; the one legis page fetched 404s). No web access permitted to retry." }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": null, "conditions": null, "source_url": null, "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "not in cached official pages 2026-09-08 -- same cache gap as annual_report/penalty_no_agent; no readable wdfi.org or statute page addresses self-designation as registered agent. No web access permitted to retry." }, "notes": "Wisconsin Act 258 (enacted 2022-04-15) revised chapters 178, 179, 180, 181 and 183 including filing content/fees -- worth re-checking fee figures against a current fee schedule before publishing. Cache remains thin: every wdfi.org URL in data/sources/wisconsin/ (fees, CorpAR, CorpSearch, bare domain) failed with a connection error on both the earlier pass and this one, and the only legis.wisconsin.gov statute page in the cache 404s (wrong/guessed URL). filing_office and change_agent fields carry source_url from a prior pass and were kept unchanged per instructions; ra_statute likewise kept (source_tier: secondary, unverified verbatim). annual_report, penalty_no_agent and own_agent_allowed remain fully null -- nothing in the current cache supports them, and no web access is permitted to fetch wdfi.org directly." }, { "state": "Wyoming", "abbr": "WY", "slug": "wyoming", "filing_office": { "name": "Wyoming Secretary of State, Business Division", "url": "https://sos.wyo.gov/", "source_url": "https://sos.wyo.gov/Business/Docs/HowToFindOrBecomeARegisteredAgent.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Office address/phone confirmed: Herschler Building East, Suite 101, 122 W 25th Street, Cheyenne, WY 82002-0020, 307-777-7311, business@wyo.gov. The two specific Business-section page slugs in the cache (Business/RegisteredAgent.aspx, Business/AnnualReport.aspx) both 404 -- stale/renamed URLs -- so the filing-office url is kept at the confirmed-reachable root (sos.wyo.gov, per the working Business/ReportFraud page) rather than guessing a working Business-section path." }, "ra_statute": { "llc_citation": "W.S. 17-28-101", "corp_citation": "W.S. 17-28-101", "url": "https://sos.wyo.gov/Forms/WyoBiz/Registered_Offices_and_Agents_Act_Chapter_28.pdf", "quote": "A registered agent, who shall be: (A) An individual who is at least eighteen (18) years of age, resides in this state and whose business office is identical with the registered office", "source_url": "https://sos.wyo.gov/Forms/WyoBiz/Registered_Offices_and_Agents_Act_Chapter_28.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Wyoming's Registered Offices and Agents Act (W.S. 17-28-101 through 17-28-111) is one unified chapter applying to every \"business entity\" as defined in 17-28-101(b) -- corporation, nonprofit corporation, LLC, limited partnership, cooperative marketing association, statutory trust, statutory foundation, or registered LLP, foreign or domestic -- so a single citation covers both LLC and corp rows. Quote is verbatim from 17-28-101(a)(ii)(A). The legislature's own compiled title (wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title17.pdf) failed to fetch in the cache (\"failed after urllib pdf routed to firecrawl\"), so the url/source_url point instead to the Secretary of State's own PDF republication of Chapter 28, which is a valid official filing-office source." }, "change_agent": { "form_name": "Appointment of New Registered Agent and Office (with accompanying Consent to Appointment by Registered Agent)", "form_url": "https://sos.wyo.gov/Forms/Business/ST/ST-CertificateReinstatement.pdf", "fee_llc_usd": 5, "fee_corp_usd": 5, "online_filing": false, "online_url": null, "online_note": "This form cannot be accepted via email. Please mail with payment to the address at the top of this form.", "mail_to": "Wyoming Secretary of State, Herschler Building East, Suite 101, 122 W 25th Street, Cheyenne, WY 82002-0020", "source_url": "https://sos.wyo.gov/Forms/Business/ST/ST-CertificateReinstatement.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "$5.00 filing fee confirmed twice: on the \"Appointment of New Registered Agent and Office\" form itself and independently on the official SOS guide (HowToFindOrBecomeARegisteredAgent.pdf: \"must be signed and mailed to our office with the appropriate fee\"). Flat $5 fee, not split by entity type. The cached fetch at this URL, despite its Statutory-Trust-reinstatement filename, actually returns three bundled forms back to back: the Statutory Trust reinstatement application, then the Appointment of New Registered Agent and Office form, then the Consent to Appointment by Registered Agent form -- the RA-change form and fee cited here come from that second/third form, not the reinstatement application. No separate standalone URL for the RA-change form is in the cache." }, "annual_report": { "note": "sos.wyo.gov annual report and fee schedule pages returned 404 on 2026-09-08; re-map the site and re-read" }, "penalty_no_agent": { "text": "Upon receipt of resignation by a registered agent where no successor is appointed, the secretary of state shall classify the entity as delinquent awaiting administrative dissolution, revocation or forfeiture of its articles of organization as appropriate. If a business entity has no registered agent, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the entity may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the entity at its principal office.", "citation": "W.S. 17-28-103(f); W.S. 17-28-104(b)", "source_url": "https://sos.wyo.gov/Forms/WyoBiz/Registered_Offices_and_Agents_Act_Chapter_28.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08", "note": "Both sentences are verbatim from the cached Chapter 28 text. The plain-English SOS guide states the same outcome more directly: \"Failure to maintain a registered agent results in the dissolution or revocation of the business entity\" (HowToFindOrBecomeARegisteredAgent.pdf)." }, "own_agent_allowed": { "value": true, "conditions": "An individual may serve as the registered agent for a business entity if they: are at least 18 years of age, reside in Wyoming, and have a physical Wyoming address which is not a PO box, drop box, mail forwarding service, UPS store, etc. (A domestic or foreign business entity may also itself serve as registered agent for another entity under W.S. 17-28-101(a)(ii)(B)-(C) if its business office is identical to the registered office and it has a written agency agreement with a natural person for service of process.)", "source_url": "https://sos.wyo.gov/Business/Docs/HowToFindOrBecomeARegisteredAgent.pdf", "accessed": "2026-09-08" }, "notes": "Cache is strong for the registered-agent statute and change-of-agent mechanics (full Chapter 28 text plus the SOS's own plain-English guide and the actual change/consent forms), but annual-report due date and fee figures are unavailable: both cached URLs meant to carry them (Business/AnnualReport.aspx, Business/Docs/FeeSchedule.pdf) 404 -- stale links on sos.wyo.gov, not a fetch failure. Business/RegisteredAgent.aspx also 404s. Reinstatement penalty context found incidentally on the Statutory Trust reinstatement form: failure to maintain a registered agent is cured by filing the Appointment of New Registered Agent and Office form + Consent form ($5 fee); failure to file an annual report costs a $100 reinstatement fee plus a $100 penalty per delinquent report." } ] }