SD registered agent
South Dakota registered agent service, $5 a year
South Dakota requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what South Dakota law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What South Dakota requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the South Dakota code:
A registered agent filing must state: (1) The name of the represented entity's commercial registered agent; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 59-11-6
How we comply
We don't.
What South 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
The Office of the Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under § 47-1A-1421 to administratively dissolve a corporation if: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1420(3)-(4)
Revocation (foreign entities)
The Office of the Secretary of State may commence a proceeding ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1530(3)-(4)
No access to the courts
A foreign corporation transacting business in this state without ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1502
Civil penalty
A foreign corporation is liable for a civil penalty of one hundred ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1502.2
And also
A corporation administratively dissolved continues its corporate ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1421
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
(17) Application for reinstatement following administrative dissolution, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-122(17)
Reinstatement fee
The secretary of state shall charge filing fees for any delinquent ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-34A-811(a)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
If an entity that previously filed a registered agent filing ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 59-11-16
One more thing to skip: the South Dakota annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. South 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
$55 a year.
(b) A reporting fee of fifty-five dollars, due and payable with ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/47-34A-212
Annual report fee, corporation
$55 a year.
(25) Annual report, fifty-five dollars;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL 47-1A-122(25) (as amended by SL 2025 ch. 189 s. 1)
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.