CO registered agent
Registered agent service in Colorado. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Colorado company must appoint a registered agent at a street address in the state. What follows is the statute, quoted where it matters, and our position on it, which is brief.
The statutory requirement in Colorado
Requirement
The Colorado code provides:
... (b) A domestic entity in good standing ... having a usual place of business in this state; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: C.R.S. § 7-90-701(1)-(2)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... Service is perfected under this subsection (2) at the earliest of: (a) The date the entity receives the process ...; (b) The date shown on the return receipt, if signed on behalf of the entity; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: C.R.S. § 7-90-704(2)
Enforcement in Colorado
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Further
... section 7-90-902 if: ... (c) The domestic entity does not comply with part 7 of this article, providing for registered agents and service of process
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: C.R.S. § 7-90-901(1)(c); § 7-90-902(1)(a)
Loss of standing to sue
... this state for the collection of its debts until it has cured its delinquency pursuant to section 7-90-904 (1), (2), or (3).
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: C.R.S. § 7-90-903(1)
Administrative dissolution by the state
... by its constituent documents and organic statutes and, if it has failed to cure its delinquency for three years or more, the delinquent domestic entity may be dissolved pursuant to section 7-90-908.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: C.R.S. § 7-90-903(5); § 7-90-908
Revocation of foreign authority
... section 7-90-902 if: ... (c) The foreign entity does not comply with part 7 of this article, providing for registered agents and service of process
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: C.R.S. § 7-90-901(2)(c); see § 7-90-808 (repealed)
Restoration
incFACTS has not yet verified the Colorado restoration fee. We have not enquired.
The Colorado annual report, which you may also decline
Colorado levies an annual charge to keep a company in good standing. The amount is below. Declining it is consistent with everything else on this page.
Annual report, limited liability company
$25 per annum.
Periodic Report $25.00 n/a
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Colorado SOS Business Organizations Fee Schedule (Revised July 1, 2024), General applicability
Annual report, corporation
$25 per annum.
Periodic Report $25.00 n/a
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Colorado SOS Business Organizations Fee Schedule (Revised July 1, 2024), General applicability
Our position
We decline. At this price you may have expected otherwise.
Statutory text captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01, verified against the code on 2026-08-10. Statutes are amended. This page is not.