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:
... The agent shall be one of the following: (1) A natural person who is a resident of this state; ...
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
... by delivering to the secretary of state or at the secretary of state's office quadruplicate copies of such process, notice, or demand and by paying to the secretary of state a fee of five dollars.
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
... of state grants, upon the expiration of that period of time from the date of the mailing, the articles of the corporation shall be canceled without further notice or action by the secretary of state.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(M); § 1706.09(L)
Revocation of foreign authority
...or has failed, after the death or resignation of its designated agent or the designated agent's removal from this state, to designate another agent as required by section 1703.041 of the Revised Code, the secretary of state shall give notice thereof by certified mail to the corporation. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1703.15
Loss of standing to sue
...no foreign corporation that should have obtained such license shall maintain any action in any court until it has obtained such license. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1703.29(A), (C)
Pecuniary penalty
... without being so licensed, or when its license has expired or been canceled and has not been reinstated, shall forfeit not less than two hundred fifty dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1703.28
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... of state, an application for reinstatement and the required appointment of agent or required statement, and by paying the filing fee specified in division (Q) of section 111.16 of the Revised Code.
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.