NY registered agent
Registered agent service in New York. $24 a year. Yes.
Every New York 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 York
Requirement
The New York code provides:
... this state upon whom process against such corporation may be served. The agent shall be a natural person who is a resident of or has a business address in this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 305(a); N.Y. Ltd. Liab. Co. Law § 302(a)-(b)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... corporation upon whom process against the corporation may be served. (b) No domestic or foreign corporation may be formed ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law §§ 304(a)-(b), 306(b); N.Y. Ltd. Liab. Co. Law § 303(a)
Enforcement in New York
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Further
... the designation by the corporation of the new address after the filing of a certificate of resignation for receipt of process with the secretary of state, its authority to do ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 306-A(b)-(c)
Pecuniary penalty
... the records of the department of state sixty days after a notice of delinquency has been mailed... Such delinquency shall be removed from the records of the department of state upon the filing ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 409(1)-(2)
Restoration
incFACTS has not yet verified the New York restoration fee. We have not enquired.
The New York annual report, which you may also decline
New York 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
$9 per annum.
... fee for filing a Biennial Statement for a business corporation or LLC ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://dos.ny.gov/faqs-corporations-business-entities
Annual report, corporation
$9 per annum.
... filing a statement or amendment pursuant to section four hundred eight of this chapter with the department of state, nine ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 104-A(r)
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.