MT registered agent
Registered agent service in Montana. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Montana 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 Montana
Requirement
The Montana code provides:
... foreign entity that serves in this state as the agent for service of process of an entity. ... the filing must state: (1) an actual street address or rural route box number ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-7-102(13), 35-7-104; MCA 35-14-501(1)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the secretary at the corporation's principal office. ... If process, notice, or demand cannot be served on a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-14-504(2)-(3); see also MCA 35-7-113(2)
Enforcement in Montana
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution by the state
... the corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for 60 days or more; (4) the secretary ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-14-1420(3)-(4); procedure at 35-14-1421
Administrative dissolution by the state
... 60 days after a change of its registered agent to file in the office of the secretary of state a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-8-209(1)(a); procedure at 35-8-914
Revocation of foreign authority
... (c) the foreign corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for 60 days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-14-1511(1)(c)-(d); see also MCA 35-8-1011(2)-(3) (foreign LLCs)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... shall submit with its application for reinstatement: (a) a certificate from the department of revenue stating that all taxes imposed pursuant to Title 15 have ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-14-1422(1)-(2); see also MCA 35-8-912 (LLCs)
The Montana annual report, which you may also decline
Annual report, limited liability company
Montana files the annual report without charge. Decline it regardless.
Annual Report Prior To April 15th WAIVED / Annual Report After April 15th ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: MT SOS Business Services Filing Fees - Limited Liability Companies, Both Domestic & Foreign Filings
Annual report, corporation
Montana files the annual report without charge. Decline it regardless.
... Report - Prior To April 15th WAIVED / Annual Report - After April ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: MT SOS Business Services Filing Fees - Corporations, Both Domestic & Foreign Filings
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.