ND registered agent
Registered agent service in North Dakota. $24 a year. Yes.
Every North Dakota 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 Dakota
Requirement
The North Dakota code provides:
... commercial registered agent under section 10-01.1-06 that serves in this state as the agent for service of process for another entity and that is: a. An individual residing in this state; or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-01.1-02(2), (19), (32); § 10-19.1-15; § 10-32.1-16
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... business without a certificate of authority; b. When a domestic entity has been dissolved; c. If an entity that previously filed a registered agent filing with the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-01.1-13(1), (3), (5)-(6); § 10-32.1-19(2)
Enforcement in North Dakota
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution by the state
... state if: (1) The corporation has failed to appoint and maintain a registered agent and registered office as provided in section 10-19.1-15... Upon expiration of sixty days after the mailing ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-146.1(1); § 10-32.1-90(1)
Revocation of foreign authority
... secretary of state if: (1) The foreign corporation has failed to: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-146.1(2); § 10-32.1-90(2)
Further
... the secretary of state shall restore the certificate of incorporation or authority to good standing. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-146.1(3)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... dissolution of a corporation, or the revocation of the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation, the reinstatement fee of one hundred ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-147(24)(a)(3); § 10-32.1-92(25)(a)(2); § 10-19.1-146(8)
The North Dakota annual report, which you may also decline
North Dakota 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
$50 per annum.
... an annual report of a limited liability company or foreign limited liability ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. 10-32.1-92(25)
Annual report, corporation
$25 per annum.
... Filing an annual report of a corporation or foreign corporation, twenty-five dollars.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. 10-19.1-147(24)
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.