ME registered agent
Registered agent service in Maine. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Maine 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 Maine
Requirement
The Maine code provides:
... is a natural person resident in this State. The clerk may be, but is not required to be, one of the directors or officers of the corporation, or the clerk may be a person ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §511; 31 M.R.S. §1661; 5 M.R.S. §102(5), (17) and §105(1)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... served, the entity may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the governors of the entity by name at its ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 5 M.R.S. §113(2)-(3)
Enforcement in Maine
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution by the state
... to notify of change of clerk or change of clerk's address. The corporation does not notify the Secretary ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §1420(4)-(5)
Administrative dissolution by the state
... 5. Failure to notify of change of registered agent or address. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 31 M.R.S. §1591(4)-(5)
Revocation of foreign authority
... Failure to notify of change of registered agent or address. The foreign corporation does not notify the Secretary of State that its ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §1531-A(4)-(5)
Further
... corporate existence but may not transact any business in this State except as necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under section 1406 and notify claimants under ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §1421(3)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... maintain a clerk, the fee is $150. X. For an application for reinstatement following administrative dissolution for failure to notify the Secretary of State that its clerk or the address of its ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §123(1)(W)-(X)
Fee upon restoration
... for failure to pay the annual report late filing penalty, a fee of $150; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 31 M.R.S. §1680(17)
The Maine annual report, which you may also decline
Maine 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
$85 per annum.
... an annual report under section 1665, a fee of $85 for a limited liability company or a fee of $150 for a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 31 M.R.S. 1680(6)
Annual report, corporation
$85 per annum.
... an annual report or amended annual report, the fee is ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. 123(1)(DD)
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.