RI registered agent
Rhode Island registered agent service, $5 a year
Rhode Island requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Rhode Island law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Rhode Island requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the Rhode Island code:
Each corporation shall have and continuously maintain in this state: (1) A registered office ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-501(a); § 7-16-11(a) (LLC)
How we comply
We don't.
What Rhode Island 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
(4) The corporation has failed for thirty (30) days to appoint and maintain a registered agent in this state as required by this chapter; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-1310(a)(4)-(5)
Revocation (foreign entities)
The certificate of authority of a foreign corporation to transact business in this state may be revoked by the secretary of state ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-1414(a)(2)-(3)
Administrative dissolution
(4) The limited liability company has failed for thirty (30) days to appoint and maintain a resident agent in this state as required by this chapter; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-16-41(a)(4)-(5)
Civil penalty
Any incorporator, officer, agent, or servant of a corporation, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-501(b)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
To withdraw the certificate of revocation of a corporation, whether ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-1602(b)(1); § 7-1.2-1312(a); § 7-16-43(a)(2) (LLC)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
Whenever a corporation fails to appoint or maintain a registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-503(b); § 7-16-11(e) (LLC)
One more thing to skip: the Rhode Island annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. Rhode Island 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.
For filing an annual report, a fee of fifty dollars ($50.00)
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-16-65(13)
Annual report fee, corporation
$50 a year.
An annual report, fifty dollars ($50.00)
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-1602
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.