NE registered agent
Nebraska registered agent service, $5 a year
Nebraska requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Nebraska law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Nebraska requires of a registered agent
The requirement
For corporations, the registered agent must be an individual who resides in Nebraska with a business office identical to the registered office, or a domestic or foreign corporation or other eligible entity whose business office is identical to the registered office (a foreign entity must be authorized to transact business in the state). For LLCs, the agent for service of process must be an individual Nebraska resident or another person with authority to transact business in Nebraska.
Each corporation must continuously maintain in this state: (1) A registered office that may be the same as any of its places of business; and (2) A registered agent, who may be: (i) An individual who resides in this state and whose business office is identical with the registered office; or (ii) A domestic or foreign corporation or other eligible entity whose business office is identical with the registered office and, in the case of a foreign corporation or foreign eligible entity, is authorized to transact business in the state. ... An agent for service of process of a limited liability company or foreign limited liability company must be an individual who is a resident of this state or other person with authority to transact business in this state.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Neb. Rev. Stat. § 21-233 (MBCA 5.01); § 21-113(c) (RULLCA 113) for LLCs
How we comply
We don't.
What Nebraska 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 60 days or more (or that fails to notify the Secretary of State of a change, resignation or discontinuance within 60 days) may be administratively dissolved after notice and a 60-day cure period. A dissolved corporation continues only to wind up.
The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under section 21-2,194 to administratively dissolve a corporation if: (1) The corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for sixty days or more; (2) The corporation does not notify the Secretary of State within sixty 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: Neb. Rev. Stat. § 21-2,193(1)-(2) (MBCA 14.20); procedure at § 21-2,194
Revocation (foreign entities)
A foreign corporation's certificate of authority may be administratively revoked if it is without a registered agent or registered office for 60 days or more or fails to report an agent/office change, resignation or discontinuance within 60 days.
The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under section 21-2,218 to administratively revoke the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state if: (1) The foreign corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for sixty days or more; (2) The foreign corporation does not inform the Secretary of State under section 21-2,210 or 21-2,211 that its registered agent or registered office has changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered office has been discontinued within sixty days of the change, resignation, or discontinuance;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Neb. Rev. Stat. § 21-2,217(1)-(2) (MBCA 15.30); procedure at § 21-2,218
Revocation (foreign entities)
A foreign LLC's certificate of authority may be revoked if it does not appoint and maintain an agent for service of process in Nebraska or fails to file a statement of change within 30 days after the agent's name or address changes (effective no less than 60 days after notice, curable before the effective date).
A certificate of authority of a foreign limited liability company to transact business in this state may be revoked by the Secretary of State in the manner provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section if the company does not: ... (3) appoint and maintain an agent for service of process as required by subsection (b) of section 21-113; or (4) deliver for filing a statement of a change under section 21-114 within thirty days after a change has occurred in the name or address of the agent.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Neb. Rev. Stat. § 21-160(a)(3)-(4) (RULLCA 806)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
Reinstatement within 5 years requires payment of all delinquent fees and a signed biennial report; reinstatement applications made MORE than 5 years after administrative dissolution or revocation carry a $500 fee (same $500 late-reinstatement fee for LLCs under § 21-192(5)).
(6) Application for reinstatement more than five years after the effective date of an administrative dissolution or administrative revocation...$500; ... (2) that the corporation has paid to the Secretary of State all delinquent fees and has delivered to the Secretary of State a properly executed and signed biennial report ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Neb. Rev. Stat. § 21-2,195(b)-(c) (MBCA 14.22); fee at § 21-205(a)(6); LLCs: §§ 21-152(c), 21-192(5)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
Nebraska's fallback is mail-based, not service on the Secretary of State: if a corporation has no registered agent (or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served), it may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the secretary of the corporation at its principal office. The LLC act mirrors this with registered/certified mail to the company at its designated office (§ 21-116(b)); service is perfected at the earliest of receipt, the signed return-receipt date, or 5 days after mailing.
If a corporation has no registered agent, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the corporation may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the secretary of the corporation at its principal office. Service is perfected under this subsection at the earliest of: (1) The date the corporation receives the mail; (2) The date shown on the return receipt, if signed on behalf of the corporation; or (3) Five days after its deposit in the United States mail, as evidenced by the postmark, if mailed postpaid and correctly addressed.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Neb. Rev. Stat. § 21-236(b) (MBCA 5.04); § 21-116(b) (RULLCA 116) for 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.