NM registered agent
Registered agent service in New Mexico. $24 a year. Yes.
Every New Mexico 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 Mexico
Requirement
The New Mexico code provides:
... a registered office which may be, but need not be, the same as its place of business; and B. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-11-11; NMSA 1978, 53-19-5(A)
Service of process in our absence
New Mexico provides for service on an agentless company elsewhere in its code. We have not read it.
Enforcement in New Mexico
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution by the state
If a corporation fails for a period of thirty days to file the corporate reports required pursuant to Section 53-5-2 NMSA 1978 or to appoint and maintain a registered agent in this state or has failed for thirty days after change of its registered office or registered agent to file in the office of the commission [secretary of state] a statement of the change, the commission [secretary of state] shall notify the corporation of its delinquency by letter to the corporation's principal office. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-11-12(A)-(B)
Further
... may apply to the commission [secretary of state] for reinstatement within two years after the effective date of revocation.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-11-12(B), (D)
Administrative dissolution by the state
... the limited liability company has failed for a period of thirty days to appoint and maintain a registered agent as required by the Limited Liability Company Act; or B. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-19-66.1
Revocation of foreign authority
... failed, after change of its registered office or registered agent, to file in the office of the commission [secretary of state] a statement of the change as required by the Business Corporation Act;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-17-17(A)(2)-(3)
Loss of standing to sue
A. A foreign limited liability company transacting business in New Mexico may not maintain an action, suit or proceeding in a court of New Mexico until it has registered in New Mexico. ... E. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-19-53(A), (E)
Restoration
incFACTS has not yet verified the New Mexico restoration fee. We have not enquired.
The New Mexico annual report, which you may also decline
New Mexico 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
New Mexico levies no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. There is nothing to decline.
53-5-2. Corporate and supplemental reports. ... a domestic or foreign corporation that is not exempted shall file in the office of the secretary of state within thirty days after the date on which its certificate of incorporation or its ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-5-2(A) (corporate report duty runs to corporations only)
Annual report, corporation
$25 per annum.
... a supplemental report, a fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00);
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978 ยง 53-2-1(A)(16)
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.