SD registered agent
Registered agent service in South Dakota. $24 a year. Yes.
Every South 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 South Dakota
Requirement
The South Dakota code provides:
... does not have a commercial registered agent: (a) The name and address of the entity's noncommercial registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 59-11-6
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 59-11-16
Enforcement in South Dakota
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution by the state
... dissolve a corporation if: ... (3) The corporation is without a registered agent in this state for sixty days or more; (4) The corporation does not ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1420(3)-(4)
Revocation of foreign authority
... foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state if: ... (3) The foreign corporation is without a registered agent in this state for sixty days or more; (4) The foreign corporation ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1530(3)-(4)
Loss of standing to sue
... transacting business in this state without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until it obtains a certificate of authority.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1502
Pecuniary penalty
... one hundred dollars for each day, but not to exceed a total of one thousand dollars for each year, it transacts business in this state without a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1502.2
Further
... not carry on any business except that necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1421
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... reinstatement following administrative dissolution, three hundred dollars, plus any delinquent annual report filing fees and associated penalty fees for the period before the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-122(17)
Fee upon restoration
... state shall charge filing fees for any delinquent annual report and a fee for application of reinstatement in the amount of one ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-34A-811(a)
The South Dakota annual report, which you may also decline
South 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
$55 per annum.
... A reporting fee of fifty-five dollars, due and payable with the filing of each annual ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/47-34A-212
Annual report, corporation
$55 per annum.
(25) Annual report, fifty-five dollars;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL 47-1A-122(25) (as amended by SL 2025 ch. 189 s. 1)
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.