ND registered agent
North Dakota registered agent service, $5 a year
North Dakota requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what North Dakota law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What North Dakota requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the North Dakota code:
"Noncommercial registered agent" means a person that is not listed ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-01.1-02(2), (19), (32); § 10-19.1-15; § 10-32.1-16
How we comply
We don't.
What North Dakota 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 may be involuntarily dissolved by the secretary ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-146.1(1); § 10-32.1-90(1)
Revocation (foreign entities)
The certificate of a foreign corporation to transact business ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-146.1(2); § 10-32.1-90(2)
And also
If the corporation or foreign corporation files a report of change relating to the registered agent or any other required record...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-146.1(3)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
After the involuntary dissolution of a corporation, or the revocation ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-147(24)(a)(3); § 10-32.1-92(25)(a)(2); § 10-19.1-146(8)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
The secretary of state is the agent for service of process: a. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-01.1-13(1), (3), (5)-(6); § 10-32.1-19(2)
One more thing to skip: the North Dakota annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. North Dakota 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
$50 a year.
25. Filing an annual report of a limited liability company or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. 10-32.1-92(25)
Annual report fee, corporation
$25 a year.
24. Filing an annual report of a corporation or foreign corporation, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. 10-19.1-147(24)
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.