OR registered agent

Registered agent service in Oregon. $24 a year. Yes.

Every Oregon 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 Oregon

Requirement

The Oregon code provides:

A corporation shall continuously maintain in this state a registered agent and registered office ... The registered office must be located at a physical street address where process may be personally served on the registered agent. ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: ORS 60.111

Service of process in our absence

Substituted service

... the corporation fails to appoint or maintain a registered agent in this state or whenever the corporation's registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the registered office.

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: ORS 60.121(2)-(3)

Enforcement in Oregon

The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.

Administrative dissolution by the state

The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under ORS 60.651 to administratively dissolve a corporation if: ... (4) The corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state; ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: ORS 60.647(4)-(5)

Revocation of foreign authority

... to transact business in this state if: ... (4) The foreign corporation has failed to appoint or maintain a registered agent or registered office in this state as prescribed by this chapter;

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: ORS 60.737(4)-(5)

Further

... affairs ... A corporation that the Secretary of State administratively dissolved under ORS 60.651 may apply to the Secretary of State for reinstatement within five years from the date of dissolution.

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: ORS 60.651(3); ORS 60.654(1), (3)

Restoration

incFACTS has not yet verified the Oregon restoration fee. We have not enquired.

The Oregon annual report, which you may also decline

Oregon 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

$100 per annum.

... of $100 for annual reports delivered for filing by an entity subject to a fee under subsection (1) of this section

Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors056.html

Annual report, corporation

$100 per annum.

... of $100 for annual reports delivered for filing by an entity subject to a fee under subsection (1) of this section

Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors056.html

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.

$105 a year remains in your account. We consider that generous.

Consult the honest page.