NJ registered agent
Registered agent service in New Jersey. $24 a year. Yes.
Every New Jersey 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 New Jersey
Requirement
The New Jersey code provides:
(3) The registered agent may be a natural person of the age of 18 years or more, or a domestic corporation or a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this State, whether or not any such agent corporation is organized for a purpose or purposes for which a corporation may be organized under this act. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-1(1), (3); N.J.S.A. 42:2C-14(c)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
b. If a limited liability company or foreign limited liability company does not appoint or maintain an agent for service of process in this State or the agent for service of process cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the agent's street address, the filing office is an agent of the company upon whom process, notice, or demand may be served. c. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 42:2C-17(b)-(c)
Enforcement in New Jersey
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Revocation of foreign authority
(1) In addition to any other ground for revocation provided by law, the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation to transact business in this State may be revoked by the Secretary of State upon the conditions prescribed in this section when ... (c) the corporation has failed to maintain a registered agent in this State as required by this act; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-10(1)(c)
Further
... said 30-day period, the corporation shall thereafter be deemed to have no registered agent or registered office in this State.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-4(3)
Loss of standing to sue
... of authority shall maintain any action or proceeding in any court of this State, until such corporation shall have obtained a certificate of authority.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-11(1)
Pecuniary penalty
... less than $200.00, nor more than $1,000.00 for each calendar year, not more than 5 years prior thereto, in which it shall have transacted business in this State without a certificate of authority.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-11(3)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... name has become unavailable, the State Treasurer shall issue the certificate upon ... the filing of an amendment to its certificate of incorporation to change the corporate name to an available name
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-5(7)
The New Jersey annual report, which you may also decline
New Jersey 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
$75 per annum.
... Liability Company (LLC) Filing ... Annual Report $75.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 42:2C-93 ('Upon filing of an annual report, a fee in the amount of $75.00')
Annual report, corporation
$75 per annum.
Annual Report - corporate and LP $75.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:15-2 ('for each such report required to be filed...... $75.00')
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.