IN registered agent
Indiana registered agent service, $5 a year
Indiana requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Indiana law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Indiana requires of a registered agent
The requirement
Indiana's Uniform Business Organizations Code (IC 23-0.5-4) states no residency requirement: the agent must be an individual, a general partnership, a domestic filing entity, or a registered foreign entity. Any address stated in a registered agent filing must be a street address in Indiana (IC 23-0.5-4-2).
A registered agent must be an individual, a general partnership, a domestic filing entity, or a registered foreign entity.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-4-3(a)
How we comply
We don't.
What Indiana 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
A domestic filing entity without a registered agent for 60 consecutive days, or that fails to notify the Secretary of State within 60 days of an agent change, resignation, or office discontinuance, may be administratively dissolved (60-day cure window after notice under IC 23-0.5-6-2).
The secretary of state may commence a proceeding under section 2 of this chapter to dissolve a domestic filing entity administratively if the entity does not: ... (3) have a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) consecutive days; or (4) notify the secretary of state within sixty (60) days that its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered office has been discontinued.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-6-1
Revocation (foreign entities)
A registered foreign entity's registration may be revoked for not having a registered agent or for failing to file a statement of change within 30 days of a change in the agent's name or address; upon revocation the Secretary of State becomes the entity's agent for service (IC 23-0.5-5-11(e)).
The secretary of state may revoke the registration of a registered foreign entity, business trust, or agricultural cooperative if: ... (3) the entity does not have a registered agent as required by IC 23-0.5-4-1; (4) the entity does not deliver to the secretary of state for filing a statement of change under IC 23-0.5-4-6 not later than thirty (30) days after a change occurs in the name or address of the entity's registered agent ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-5-11(a)
No access to the courts
A foreign entity doing business in Indiana may not maintain an action or proceeding in Indiana unless registered - the downstream consequence once registration is revoked for registered agent failure.
A foreign entity doing business in Indiana may not maintain an action or proceeding in this state unless it is registered to do business in Indiana.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-5-2(b)
Civil penalty
A foreign entity transacting business in Indiana without a certificate of authority is liable for a civil penalty of up to $10,000, collectible by the attorney general.
A foreign entity is liable for a civil penalty of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) if it transacts business in Indiana without a certificate of authority. The attorney general may collect all penalties due under this subsection.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-5-2(f)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
Reinstatement requires paying all back fees, taxes, interest and penalties, a certificate of clearance from the department of state revenue, plus a $20 (electronic) or $30 (paper) application fee under IC 23-0.5-9-42.
To be reinstated, an entity must pay all fees, taxes, interest, and penalties that were due to the secretary of state at the time of the entity's administrative dissolution and all fees, taxes, interest, and penalties that would have been due to the secretary of state while the entity was dissolved administratively.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-6-3(d)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
If a represented entity ceases to have a registered agent, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the entity may be served by registered or certified mail (or similar commercial delivery) to its principal office; if that fails, by handing a copy to the individual in charge of any regular place of business. Separately, revocation of a foreign registration appoints the Secretary of State as the entity's agent for service (IC 23-0.5-5-11(e)) with a $10 fee (IC 23-0.5-9-56).
If a represented entity ceases to have a registered agent, or if its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the entity may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, or by similar commercial delivery service, addressed to the entity at the entity's principal office. ... Service is effective under this subsection on the earliest of: (1) the date the entity receives the mail or delivery by the commercial delivery service; (2) the date shown on the return receipt, if signed by the entity; or (3) five (5) days after its deposit with the United States Postal Service or commercial delivery service, if correctly addressed and with sufficient postage or payment.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-4-10(b)
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.