WV registered agent
Registered agent service in West Virginia. $24 a year. Yes.
Every West Virginia 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 West Virginia
Requirement
The West Virginia code provides:
Each corporation may continuously maintain in this state: (1) A registered office that may be the same as any of its places of business; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-5-501; § 31B-1-108(a)-(b)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... the agent for service of process cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the agent's address, the Secretary of State is an agent of the company upon whom process, notice or demand may be served.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31B-1-111(b); see also § 31D-5-504(b)-(c)
Enforcement in West Virginia
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution by the state
... its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered office has been discontinued;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-14-1420(a)(2)
Revocation of foreign authority
... agent or registered office has changed, that its registered agent has resigned or that its registered office has been discontinued within sixty days of the change, resignation or discontinuance;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-15-1530(2)
Revocation of foreign authority
... of a change in the name or business address of the agent as required by this article;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31B-10-1006(a)(1)(iii)
Loss of standing to sue
... of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any circuit court in this state until it obtains a certificate of authority.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-15-1502(a)
Further
A corporation administratively dissolved under section one thousand four hundred twenty-one of this article may apply to the Secretary of State for reinstatement within two years after the effective date of dissolution. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-14-1422(a)
Restoration
incFACTS has not yet verified the West Virginia restoration fee. We have not enquired.
The West Virginia annual report, which you may also decline
West Virginia 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
$25 per annum.
... for the services of the Secretary of State as attorney-in-fact
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://code.wvlegislature.gov/59-1-2A/
Annual report, corporation
$25 per annum.
... liability company, and foreign limited liability company ... shall pay an annual report fee of $25
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://code.wvlegislature.gov/59-1-2A/
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.