OH registered agent
Registered agent service in Ohio. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Ohio 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 Ohio
Requirement
The Ohio code provides:
... demand required or permitted by statute to be served upon a corporation may be served. The agent shall be ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(A), (C)(2); § 1706.09(A); § 1703.041(A)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... the party... shall have filed with the secretary of state an affidavit stating that one of the foregoing conditions exists...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(H); § 1706.09(H)(2); § 1703.19
Enforcement in Ohio
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution by the state
... Unless the default is cured within thirty days after the mailing ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(M); § 1706.09(L)
Revocation of foreign authority
... designate another agent as required by section 1703.041 of the Revised Code, the secretary ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1703.15
Loss of standing to sue
... court until it has obtained such license. Before any such corporation shall maintain such action on any cause of action arising at the time when it was not licensed to transact business ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1703.29(A), (C)
Pecuniary penalty
... inclusive, of the Revised Code, which transacts business in this state without being so licensed, or when its license has expired or been canceled and has not ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1703.28
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... two years of the cancellation, on a form prescribed by the secretary of state, an application for reinstatement and the required appointment of agent or required ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(M); § 1706.09(L); § 1703.15
The Ohio annual report, which you may also decline
incFACTS has not verified the Ohio annual report fee. Nor have we.
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.