KY registered agent
Registered agent service in Kentucky. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Kentucky 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 Kentucky
Requirement
The Kentucky code provides:
... An individual who resides in this Commonwealth and whose business address is identical with the registered office; or 2. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.4-010(1)(b)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... return receipt requested, addressed to the entity or foreign entity at its principal office and to the attention of the person or office appropriate for giving notice to the entity or foreign entity.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.4-040(2)
Enforcement in Kentucky
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution by the state
(b) If the entity is without a registered office or registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.7-010(1)(b)-(c)
Revocation of foreign authority
(2) The foreign entity is without a registered office or registered agent in this Commonwealth for sixty (60) days or more; (3) The foreign entity does comply with KRS 14A.4-020;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-070(2)-(3)
Loss of standing to sue
... certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this Commonwealth until it obtains a certificate of authority.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-020(1)
Pecuniary penalty
A foreign entity is liable for a civil penalty of two dollars ($2) for each day it transacts business in this Commonwealth without a certificate of authority. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-020(4)
Further
... of State the foreign entity's registered agent in any proceeding based on a cause of action which arose during the time the foreign entity was authorized to transact business in this Commonwealth.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-080(4)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... and the current fee for filing each delinquent annual report as provided for in this chapter.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.7-030(1)(g)
The Kentucky annual report, which you may also decline
Kentucky 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
$15 per annum.
... must be signed, dated and accompanied by a $15 filing fee.
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.sos.ky.gov/bus/business-filings/Pages/Annual-Reports.aspx
Annual report, corporation
$15 per annum.
... (Profit and Professional Service) - Annual Report: $15.00
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Kentucky Secretary of State, Business Filings - Fees
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.