KY registered agent
Kentucky registered agent, $19, same as every other aisle
Kentucky makes every corporation and LLC keep a registered agent at a street address inside the state, and it wrote down what that agent has to do. The writing is quoted below. Our contribution to it is a price tag.
What Kentucky puts on the label
The label
Straight from the Kentucky code, no markdown:
... An entity or foreign entity qualified to transact business in this Commonwealth whose business address is identical with the registered office.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.4-010(1)(b)
The Kentucky annual report, priced by the state, skippable by you
Every year Kentucky asks for a payment to keep the company on its shelf. The tag is below. Leaving it in the cart is a saving in exactly the way we are.
Annual report tag, LLC
$15 a year, tax not included.
... must be signed, dated and accompanied by a $15 filing ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.sos.ky.gov/bus/business-filings/Pages/Annual-Reports.aspx
Annual report tag, corporation
$15 a year, tax not included.
... (Profit and Professional Service) - Annual Report: ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Kentucky Secretary of State, Business Filings - Fees
The restocking fee, as charged by Kentucky
When the agent on file is an empty shelf, the state has a checklist. It is quoted here without our commentary, which would only have been about the price.
Pulled from the shelf by the state
... (c) If the entity does not notify the Secretary of State within sixty (60) days that its registered office or registered agent has been changed, that its registered office has been discontinued or that its registered agent has resigned;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.7-010(1)(b)-(c)
Out-of-state authority, returned
... (3) The foreign entity does comply with KRS 14A.4-020;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-070(2)-(3)
No entry to the courthouse
... a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this Commonwealth until it obtains a certificate of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-020(1)
Penalty, priced by the state
... The Secretary of State may collect all penalties due under this subsection.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-020(4)
Also on the shelf
... the Secretary of State the foreign entity's registered agent in any proceeding based on a cause of action which arose during the time the foreign entity was authorized to transact business in this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-080(4)
Our end of the deal
Nineteen dollars. That was our end. The rest of the deal is on backorder.
Lawsuits, when the aisle is empty
Service, rerouted
... or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the entity or foreign entity at its principal office and to the attention of the person or office appropriate for giving notice to the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.4-040(2)
The price of getting the company back
Reinstatement, the price on the tag
... and the current fee for filing each delinquent annual report as provided for in this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.7-030(1)(g)
Statute text captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01, then compared with the state's own text on 2026-08-10. Codes get restocked. This page does not.