HI registered agent
Registered agent service in Hawaii. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Hawaii 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 Hawaii
Requirement
The Hawaii code provides:
... have a business address in this State and may be: (1) An individual who resides in this State; (2) A domestic entity authorized to transact business or conduct affairs in this State; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-61; sec. 428-107; sec. 425R-3
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... the corporation has not filed with the department director, pursuant to this chapter, the name ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-64(a)-(c); sec. 428-110(a)-(c); sec. 414-440(b) (foreign corporations)
Enforcement in Hawaii
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution by the state
... the corporation fails to: (1) Pay any fees prescribed by law; (2) File its annual report for a period of two years; (3) Appoint and maintain an agent for service of process as ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-401(3)-(4); sec. 428-809(3)-(4)
Revocation of foreign authority
... transact business in this State if: (1) The corporation fails to: (A) Pay any fees prescribed by law; (B) File its annual report for ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-461(1)(C); sec. 428-1006(a)(1)(C)
Further
... temporarily but may carry on only business necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under section 428-802 and to ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 428-810(c)-(d); sec. 414-402(c)-(d)
Loss of standing to sue
... 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: HRS sec. 414-432(a), (d); sec. 428-1008(a), (e)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... The application shall: (1) Recite the name of the corporation and the effective date of its administrative dissolution; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-403(a); sec. 428-811(a); sec. 428-1301(a)(7)
The Hawaii annual report, which you may also decline
incFACTS has not verified the Hawaii annual report fee. Nor have we.
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.