CT registered agent
Registered agent service in Connecticut. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Connecticut 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 Connecticut
Requirement
The Connecticut code provides:
... (E) a limited liability company not organized under the laws of this state and which has procured a certificate of registration ...; (F) a domestic registered limited liability partnership; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-660(a); accord § 34-243n(b), (e) (LLCs)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
If a corporation has no registered agent, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the corporation may be served by any proper officer or other person lawfully empowered to make service by sending a true and attested copy of the process, notice or demand by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the secretary of the corporation at its principal office. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-663(b); accord § 34-243r(c) (LLCs)
Enforcement in Connecticut
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution by the state
... of the State shall prepare and file in his office a certificate of administrative dissolution stating that the delinquent corporation has been administratively dissolved by reason of its default.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-890(c); effect: § 33-891
Administrative dissolution by the state
... State shall prepare and file in his office a certificate of dissolution by forfeiture stating that the delinquent limited liability company has been dissolved by forfeiture by reason of its default.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 34-267g(c); effect: § 34-267g(f)
Revocation of foreign authority
The Secretary of the State may commence a proceeding under section 33-936 to revoke the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state if: ... (3) the foreign corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for sixty days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-935
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... (B) an annual report for the current year; (C) an up-to-date statement or statements from the Commissioner of Revenue Services and the administrator of the unemployment compensation law ...; and (D) an appointment of a registered agent.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-892(a); fees: § 33-617(a)(15), § 34-243u(a)(11); LLC: § 34-267b(b)(3)
The Connecticut annual report, which you may also decline
Connecticut 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
$80 per annum.
... to July 1, 2020, twenty dollars, and (B) concerning any year on or after July 1, 2020, eighty dollars
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. sec. 34-243u(a)
Annual report, corporation
$150 per annum.
... fifty dollars except as otherwise provided in sections 33-953 and 33-954
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Conn. Gen. Stat. sec. 33-617(a)(12)
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.