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:
... need not be, the same as its place of business; and B. a registered agent, which agent may be either an individual resident in this state whose business office is identical with the registered office, ...
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
... 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 ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-11-12(A)-(B)
Further
... revoked pursuant to this section may apply to the commission [secretary of state] for reinstatement within two years after the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-11-12(B), (D)
Administrative dissolution by the state
... of thirty days to appoint and maintain a registered agent as required by the Limited Liability Company Act; or B. the limited liability company has failed ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-19-66.1
Revocation of foreign authority
... section when: [...] (2) the corporation has failed to appoint and maintain ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-17-17(A)(2)-(3)
Loss of standing to sue
... proceeding in a court of New Mexico until it has registered in New Mexico. ... E. A foreign limited liability company that transacts business in New Mexico ...
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.
... 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.
... filing a corporate report and filing a supplemental report, a fee of twenty-five ...
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.