NC registered agent
Registered agent service in North Carolina. $24 a year. Yes.
Every North Carolina 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 North Carolina
Requirement
The North Carolina code provides:
must continuously maintain in this State: (1) A registered office that may be the same as any of its places of business... and (2) A registered agent, who must be: a. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55D-30(a)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
When an entity required to maintain a registered office and registered agent under G.S. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55D-33(b)
Enforcement in North Carolina
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution by the state
... 55-14-21 to dissolve administratively a corporation if: ... (3) The corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this State for 60 days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55-14-20(3)-(4); § 55-14-21(b); § 57D-6-06(a)(3)-(4)
Revocation of foreign authority
The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under G.S. 55-15-31 to revoke the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this State if: ... (3) The foreign corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this State for 60 days or more...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55-15-30(a)(3)-(4); § 55-15-31(d); § 57D-7-30(a)(3)-(4)
Further
... as a limited liability partnership, the expiration of five years after the effective date of the administrative dissolution or revocation.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55D-21(d)(2)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
A corporation administratively dissolved under G.S. 55-14-21 may apply to the Secretary of State for reinstatement... [Fee schedule:] (16) Application for reinstatement following administrative dissolution 100.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55-14-22; § 55-1-22(a)(16)
The North Carolina annual report, which you may also decline
North Carolina 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
$200 per annum.
(28) Annual report $200.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. 57D-1-22(a)(28)
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.