MS registered agent
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Mississippi requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Mississippi law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Mississippi requires of a registered agent
The requirement
Mississippi adopted the Model Registered Agents Act (Miss. Code Ann. ch. 79-35, applying to corporations, LLCs and other filing entities). A registered agent is either a listed commercial registered agent or a noncommercial registered agent - an individual or a domestic or foreign entity serving in the state. Registered-agent filings must state an actual street address in Mississippi (and an email address for noncommercial agents, § 79-35-5(a)(2)). No individual-residency requirement is stated; the in-state street address is the operative requirement.
"Noncommercial registered agent" means a person that is not listed as a commercial registered agent under Section 79-35-6 and that is an individual or a domestic or foreign entity that serves in this state as the agent for service of process of an entity. ... Whenever a provision of this chapter requires that a filing state an address, the filing must state: (1) An actual street address in this state; and (2) A mailing address in this state, if different from the address under paragraph (1) of this section.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. §§ 79-35-2(13), 79-35-4
How we comply
We don't.
What Mississippi 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 corporation without a registered agent for 60 days or more (or that fails to notify the Secretary of State of an agent change or resignation within 60 days) may be administratively dissolved after notice and a 60-day cure period.
The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under Section 79-4-14.21 to administratively dissolve a corporation if: ... (3) The corporation is without a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or more; (4) The corporation does not notify the Secretary of State within sixty (60) days that its registered agent has been changed, or that its registered agent has resigned;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-4-14.20(3)-(4); procedure at § 79-4-14.21
Administrative dissolution
An LLC without a registered agent for 60 days or more (or that fails to notify the Secretary of State of an agent change or resignation within 60 days) may be administratively dissolved after notice and a 60-day cure period.
The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under Section 79-29-823 to administratively dissolve a limited liability company if: ... (c) The limited liability company is without a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or more; (d) The limited liability company does not notify the Secretary of State within sixty (60) days that its registered agent has been changed or that its registered agent has resigned;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-29-821(c)-(d); procedure at § 79-29-823
No access to the courts
An administratively dissolved corporation cannot maintain any action, suit or proceeding in a Mississippi court until reinstated (it may still defend actions, § 79-4-14.21(e)).
A corporation that has been administratively dissolved may not maintain any action, suit or proceeding in any court of this state until the corporation is reinstated.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-4-14.21(f)
Revocation (foreign entities)
A foreign corporation's certificate of authority may be revoked if it is without a registered agent for 60 days or more or fails to report an agent change or resignation within 60 days.
The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under Section 79-4-15.31 to revoke the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state if: ... (3) The foreign corporation is without a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or more; (4) The foreign corporation does not inform the Secretary of State by an appropriate filing that its registered agent has changed or that its registered agent has resigned, within sixty (60) days of the change or resignation;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-4-15.30(3)-(4); procedure at § 79-4-15.31
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
An entity administratively dissolved (or a foreign entity revoked) for falsely naming a registered agent without the person's consent must, to be reinstated, file a statement of appointment signed by its new agent and pay an additional $250 reinstatement fee on top of the ordinary statutory reinstatement fee.
Any entity that is administratively dissolved or whose certificate of authority is revoked pursuant to this paragraph shall not be reinstated unless it complies with the applicable statutory reinstatement requirements and unless it provides to the Secretary of State with its application for reinstatement a statement of appointment of registered agent signed by its appointed registered agent and an additional reinstatement fee of Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00), in addition to the applicable statutory reinstatement fee.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-35-19(2)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
If an entity no longer has a registered agent, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the entity's governors (directors/managers, as shown on the most recent annual report) are treated as its agents for service; if the governors cannot be served, service is made on the Secretary of State under the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure. A $25 fee applies each time process is served on the Secretary of State (§ 79-35-3(c)).
If an entity that previously filed a registered agent filing with the Secretary of State no longer has a registered agent, or if its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the governors of the entity will be treated as the entity's agent for service of process who may be served pursuant to the provisions of the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure. ... If the governors of the entity cannot with reasonable diligence be served, service of process against the entity shall be upon the Secretary of State in accordance with the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-35-13(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.