HI registered agent
Hawaii registered agent service, $5 a year
Hawaii requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Hawaii law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Hawaii requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the Hawaii code:
Each corporation shall continuously maintain in this State a registered agent, who shall have a business address in this State and may be: (1) An individual who resides in this State; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-61; sec. 428-107; sec. 425R-3
How we comply
We don't.
What Hawaii does to your company when we don't
Here is what the state does to an entity that has no agent, or whose agent is us.
Administrative dissolution
The department director may commence a proceeding under section 414-402 to administratively dissolve a corporation if the corporation fails to: (1) Pay any fees prescribed by law; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-401(3)-(4); sec. 428-809(3)-(4)
Revocation (foreign entities)
The department director may commence a proceeding under section ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-461(1)(C); sec. 428-1006(a)(1)(C)
And also
A limited liability company administratively terminated continues ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 428-810(c)-(d); sec. 414-402(c)-(d)
No access to the courts
A foreign corporation transacting business in this State without ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-432(a), (d); sec. 428-1008(a), (e)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
A corporation administratively dissolved under section 414-402 may apply to the department director for reinstatement within two years after the effective date of dissolution. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-403(a); sec. 428-811(a); sec. 428-1301(a)(7)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
If no officer, director, manager, superintendent, or other person ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-64(a)-(c); sec. 428-110(a)-(c); sec. 414-440(b) (foreign corporations)
One more thing to skip: the Hawaii annual report
We couldn't be bothered to look this up. incFACTS carries no human-verified annual report fee for Hawaii, and neither do we.
Statutory text as captured by incFACTS (retrieved 2026-08-01, verified word-for-word against the state code 2026-08-10). Laws change. The statute governs; this page does not.