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Missouri requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Missouri law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Missouri requires of a registered agent
The requirement
For corporations, the registered agent must be an individual resident of Missouri whose business office is identical with the registered office, or a corporation authorized to transact business in Missouri with a business office identical with the registered office. The LLC Act mirrors this (RSMo 347.030.1(2): individual Missouri resident or a domestic or foreign corporation authorized to do business in the state) and adds that the Secretary of State may not be appointed as an LLC's resident agent except as the statute provides.
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; (2) A registered agent, which agent may be either an individual, resident in this state, whose business office is identical with such registered office, or a corporation authorized to transact business in this state having a business office identical with such registered office.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.370.1; see also RSMo 347.030.1 (LLCs)
How we comply
We don't.
What Missouri 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 corporation without a registered agent or registered office for 30 days or more (or that fails to notify the Secretary of State of a change, resignation or discontinuance within 30 days) may be administratively dissolved after notice and a 60-day cure window.
The secretary of state may commence a proceeding pursuant to section 351.486 to dissolve a corporation administratively if: ... (5) The corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for thirty days or more; (6) The corporation does not notify the secretary of state within thirty 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: RSMo 351.484(5)-(6); procedure at RSMo 351.486
And also
Personal liability: an officer or director who conducts business on behalf of an administratively dissolved corporation (beyond winding up) is personally liable for obligations so incurred.
A corporation administratively dissolved continues its corporate existence but may not carry on any business except that necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under section 351.476 and notify claimants under sections 351.478 and 351.482, and any officer or director who conducts business on behalf of a corporation so dissolved except as provided in this section shall be personally liable for any obligation so incurred.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.486.3
Administrative dissolution
For LLCs, the Secretary of State has the power to cancel the articles of organization if the company fails to maintain a registered agent (30 days' written notice before cancellation takes effect; appeal to circuit court; rescission available on cure).
The power to cancel or disapprove any articles of organization or other filing required under sections 347.010 to 347.187, if the limited liability company fails to comply with the provisions of sections 347.010 to 347.187 by failing to file required documents under sections 347.010 to 347.187, by failing to maintain a registered agent, by failing to pay the required filing fees ... Thirty days before such cancellation shall take effect, the secretary shall notify the limited liability company with written notice, either personally or by certified mail ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 347.183(2)-(3)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
Reinstatement of an administratively dissolved corporation requires a $50 reinstatement fee plus any delinquent fees, penalties and accrued charges, and a Department of Revenue tax clearance certificate. (LLC reinstatement after administrative cancellation of expired-duration articles carries a $100 fee, RSMo 347.183(6).)
(5) Be accompanied by a reinstatement fee in the amount of fifty dollars plus any delinquent fees, penalties, and charges that might have accrued.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.488.1(5)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
If a corporation fails to appoint or maintain a registered agent, the Secretary of State is automatically appointed as its agent for service; the Secretary forwards served process by registered mail to the corporation's registered office. For LLCs, process may be served on an authorized person, then an organizer, and if none can be located with due diligence, on the Secretary of State (RSMo 347.033.2-.3).
In the event that a corporation shall fail to appoint or maintain a registered agent in this state, then the secretary of state as long as such default exists shall be automatically appointed as an agent of such corporation upon whom any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon the corporation may be served. ... In the event that any process, notice, or demand is served on the secretary of state, he shall immediately cause a copy thereof to be forwarded by registered mail, addressed to the corporation at its registered office in this state.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.380.1; see also RSMo 347.033.3 (LLCs)
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.