WY registered agent
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Wyoming requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Wyoming law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Wyoming requires of a registered agent
The requirement
Wyoming has a unified registered agent chapter (17-28) applying to every 'business entity' (corporation, nonprofit, LLC, LP, cooperative, statutory trust or foundation, LLP, foreign or domestic, § 17-28-101(b)). The agent must be an individual at least 18 who resides in Wyoming with a business office identical to the registered office, or a domestic or authorized foreign business entity with a written agency agreement designating a natural person to accept service. The registered office must be a Wyoming street address where the agent (or that natural person) is physically present, and anyone acting as agent for more than 10 entities must register as a commercial registered agent (§ 17-28-105). Agent and entity must each maintain an e-mail address (§ 17-28-101(e)). The corporation and LLC acts incorporate ch. 28 wholesale (§ 17-16-501; § 17-29-113).
(ii) A registered agent, who shall be: (A) An individual who is at least eighteen (18) years of age, resides in this state and whose business office is identical with the registered office; (B) A domestic business entity whose business office is identical with the registered office and which has a written agreement creating an agency relationship with an individual providing for acceptance of service of process as provided in W.S. 17-28-104; (C) A foreign business entity authorized to transact business in this state whose business office is identical with the registered office ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-101(a)-(b)
How we comply
We don't.
What Wyoming 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 administratively dissolved if it is without a registered agent or registered office (no waiting period stated), or fails to notify the Secretary of State within 30 days of an agent change, resignation, or office discontinuance; there is a 60-day cure window after notice (§ 17-16-1421(b)). Failure to pay registered agent chapter penalties is a separate ground (§ 17-16-1420(a)(x)).
(iii) The corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state; (iv) The corporation does not notify the secretary of state within thirty (30) 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: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1420(a)(iii)-(iv)
Administrative dissolution
An LLC without a registered agent or office for any reason is deemed to be transacting business without authority and, unless it complies within 60 days of notice, is deemed defunct and forfeits its articles of organization.
If any limited liability company's registered agent has filed its resignation with the secretary of state and the limited liability company has not replaced its registered agent and registered office, or the limited liability company is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for any reason, it shall be deemed to be transacting business within this state without authority and to have forfeited any franchises, rights or privileges acquired under the laws thereof ... Unless compliance is made within sixty (60) days ... the limited liability company shall be deemed defunct and to have forfeited its articles of organization
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-29-705(a)
Revocation (foreign entities)
A foreign corporation's certificate of authority may be revoked if it is without a registered agent or office, or fails to inform the Secretary of State within 30 days of an agent change or resignation; foreign LLCs are revoked and reinstated the same way under § 17-29-114.
(iii) The foreign corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state; (iv) The foreign corporation does not inform the secretary of state under W.S. 17-28-102 or 17-28-103 that its registered agent or registered office has changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered office has been discontinued within thirty (30) days of the change, resignation or discontinuance;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1530(a)(iii)-(iv)
And also
The moment an agent resigns with no successor appointed, the Secretary of State classifies the entity as delinquent awaiting administrative dissolution, revocation, or forfeiture.
Upon receipt of resignation by a registered agent where no successor is appointed, the secretary of state shall classify the entity as delinquent awaiting administrative dissolution, revocation or forfeiture of its articles of organization as appropriate.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-103(f)
No access to the courts
A foreign corporation transacting business without a certificate of authority (whose application must be accompanied by the agent's written consent, § 17-16-1503(c)) cannot maintain a proceeding in any Wyoming court; applies to foreign LLCs via § 17-29-114. An agentless LLC is expressly 'deemed to be transacting business within this state without authority' (§ 17-29-705(a)).
A foreign corporation transacting business in this state without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until it obtains a certificate of authority.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(a)
Civil penalty
A foreign corporation transacting business without authority is liable for all back fees and license taxes plus 18 percent interest, a $5,000 penalty, audit expenses, and attorney fees. Separately, the Secretary of State may impose up to $500 per violation per entity on registered agents under the agent chapter (§ 17-28-109(a)), and unpaid agent-chapter penalties are themselves a dissolution/revocation ground (§ 17-16-1420(a)(x); § 17-16-1530(a)(ix)).
shall be liable to this state, for the years or parts thereof during which it transacted business in this state without a certificate of authority, in an amount equal to all fees and license taxes, plus interest of eighteen percent (18%), which would have been imposed by law upon such corporation had it duly applied for and received a certificate of authority ... and in addition shall be liable for a penalty in the amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), reasonable audit expenses and reasonable attorney fees.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(d)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
A corporation administratively dissolved specifically for failure to maintain a registered agent must pay a $250 reinstatement fee plus delinquent fees and taxes, within a two-year window; an LLC deemed defunct pays a reinstatement fee set by rule plus a $250 penalty (§ 17-29-705(a)).
(v) If the corporation was administratively dissolved for failure to maintain a registered agent, include payment of a two hundred fifty dollar ($250.00) reinstatement fee and payment of any fees and taxes then delinquent.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1422(a)(v)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
Two fallbacks in the unified agent chapter: if an entity has no agent or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, service is by registered or certified mail to the entity's principal office (§ 17-28-104(b)), and every entity must execute at formation a consent to electronic service by the Secretary of State for that agentless scenario (§ 17-28-104(e)). Additionally, when an agent resigns and no successor is appointed, service is on the Secretary of State until a new appointment is made or the entity is dissolved or revoked (§ 17-28-103(e)); the SOS is likewise the agent for revoked foreign corporations (§ 17-16-1531(d)).
(b) If a business entity has no registered agent, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the entity may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the entity at its principal office. ... [§ 17-28-103(e)] If an agency appointment is terminated under the provisions of this section and no successor is appointed, service of process on the business entity shall be upon the secretary of state until a new appointment is made or until the entity is administratively dissolved or revoked.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-104(b); § 17-28-103(e)
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.