ME registered agent
Maine registered agent service, $5 a year
Maine requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Maine law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Maine requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the Maine code:
Each domestic corporation to which this Act applies shall maintain in this State a clerk, who is a natural person resident in this State. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §511; 31 M.R.S. §1661; 5 M.R.S. §102(5), (17) and §105(1)
How we comply
We don't.
What Maine 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
4. Failure to maintain clerk. The corporation is without a clerk in this State as required by Title 5, section 105, subsection 1; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §1420(4)-(5)
Administrative dissolution
4. Failure to maintain registered agent. The limited liability company is without a registered agent in this State as required by section 1661 and Title 5, section 105, subsection 1; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 31 M.R.S. §1591(4)-(5)
Revocation (foreign entities)
4. Failure to maintain registered agent. The foreign corporation is without a registered agent in this State as required by Title 5, section 105, subsection 1; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §1531-A(4)-(5)
And also
A corporation administratively dissolved continues its corporate ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §1421(3)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
W. For an application for reinstatement following administrative dissolution for failure to appoint or maintain a clerk, the fee is $150. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §123(1)(W)-(X)
Reinstatement fee
For failure to file an annual report, a fee of $150, to a maximum fee of $600, regardless of the number of delinquent reports or the period of delinquency; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 31 M.R.S. §1680(17)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
If an entity that previously filed a clerk or registered agent ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 5 M.R.S. §113(2)-(3)
One more thing to skip: the Maine annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. Maine charges the following to keep your company on its books each year. Skipping it saves the whole amount, right up until it does not.
Annual report fee, LLC
$85 a year.
For filing of an annual report under section 1665, a fee of $85 ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 31 M.R.S. 1680(6)
Annual report fee, corporation
$85 a year.
For an annual report or amended ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. 123(1)(DD)
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.