PA registered agent
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Pennsylvania requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Pennsylvania law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Pennsylvania requires of a registered agent
The requirement
Pennsylvania does not require a registered AGENT at all - it requires a registered OFFICE. Every business corporation (15 Pa.C.S. § 1507(a)) and every LLC (§ 8825(a)) must continuously maintain a registered office in the Commonwealth, which may but need not be its place of business - so an entity effectively acts as its own agent by listing its own Pennsylvania address. In lieu of a registered address, an entity may state the name of a Commercial Registered Office Provider (CROP) that has filed a statement with the Department of State (§ 109). Registered foreign associations have the same registered-office duty (§ 411(f)).
(a) General rule.--Every business corporation shall have and continuously maintain in this Commonwealth a registered office which may, but need not, be the same as its place of business.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 1507(a); see also §§ 109, 411(f), 8825(a)
How we comply
We don't.
What Pennsylvania 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
Title 15 ties administrative dissolution to the annual report, not to the registered office: the Department may administratively dissolve a domestic filing entity that does not deliver its annual report within six months after it is due (applies to reports due on or after January 4, 2027), after notice and a 60-day cure window (§ 382(b)). No administrative-dissolution ground based on failure to maintain a registered office was found.
The department may commence a proceeding under section 382 (relating to procedure and effect) to administratively dissolve a domestic filing entity ... if the entity does not deliver an annual report to the department within six months after the annual report is due.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 381(a); § 382
Revocation (foreign entities)
The Department may terminate a registered foreign association's registration if it fails to amend its registration when required, has been dissolved in its home jurisdiction, or fails to deliver its annual report within six months after due (reports due on or after January 4, 2027); effective no less than 60 days after notice unless cured. Failure to maintain the registered office is not itself a listed ground.
The department may terminate the registration of a registered foreign association ... if the department finds that the association: (1) has not amended its registration when required by section 413 ...; (2) has been administratively, voluntarily or involuntarily dissolved under the laws of its jurisdiction of formation; or (3) has failed to deliver to the department for filing an annual report under section 146 ... within six months after it is due.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 419(a), (d)
No access to the courts
A foreign filing association or foreign LLP doing business in Pennsylvania without registering (registration includes the § 411(f) registered-office duty) may not maintain an action or proceeding in Pennsylvania courts until registered; failure does not impair its contracts or prevent it from defending.
(b) Penalty for failure to register.--A foreign filing association or foreign limited liability partnership doing business in this Commonwealth may not maintain an action or proceeding in this Commonwealth unless it is registered to do business under this chapter.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 15 Pa.C.S. § 411(b)
The bill to come back
We couldn't be bothered to look this up. incFACTS carries no human-verified reinstatement fee for Pennsylvania in the registered agent dataset, and we are not the kind of company that checks.
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
We couldn't be bothered to look this up. Pennsylvania puts the fallback rules for serving an agentless company somewhere other than the entity code, and we stopped reading.
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.