LA registered agent
Registered agent service in Louisiana. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Louisiana 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 Louisiana
Requirement
The Louisiana code provides:
... maintains an office in this state and, in the case of a foreign corporation ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1-501(2); see also La. R.S. 12:1308(A)(2) (LLC); La. R.S. 12:308(A)(1) (foreign corporation)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... addressed to the secretary of the corporation at its principal office. Service is perfected under this Subsection at the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1-504(B)
Enforcement in Louisiana
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution by the state
... of a corporation if, according to the records of the secretary of state, the corporation has ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1-1442(A)-(B)
Further
... registered office has been vacated, the office of the secretary of state may thereafter be treated as the registered office by any person other ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1308(F)
Revocation of foreign authority
... in this state, or to maintain records, as required by this Chapter ... C. Upon ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:313(A)(2), (B), (C)
Revocation of foreign authority
... a registered office in this state or to maintain records as required by this Chapter ... (1) The secretary of state shall ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1353(A)(2), (B)
Loss of standing to sue
... this state shall be permitted to present any judicial demand before any court of this state unless it has been authorized to transact such business, if required by, and as ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:314(A); La. R.S. 12:1354(A)
Pecuniary penalty
... may impose a penalty of not more than one thousand dollars per violation against such foreign corporations transacting business in this state without a valid ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:314.1(B); La. R.S. 12:1355(B)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... paid for the filing of an annual report for each year between the corporation's last annual report and the year ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1-1444(F)(2); La. R.S. 12:1308.2(C)(1)(c)
The Louisiana annual report, which you may also decline
Louisiana 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
$30 per annum.
Domestic limited liability companies ... Annual Reports $30
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Louisiana Secretary of State, Commercial Division - Forms & Fee Schedule (Domestic limited liability companies)
Annual report, corporation
$30 per annum.
Domestic corporations ... Annual Report $30
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Louisiana Secretary of State, Commercial Division - Forms & Fee Schedule (Domestic corporations)
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.