ME registered agent
Maine registered agent, $19, same as every other aisle
Maine 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 Maine puts on the label
The label
Straight from the Maine code, no markdown:
... The clerk required under this section is also governed by Title 5, chapter 6-A.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §511; 31 M.R.S. §1661; 5 M.R.S. §102(5), (17) and §105(1)
The Maine annual report, priced by the state, skippable by you
Every year Maine 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
$85 a year, tax not included.
... a fee of $85 for a limited liability company or a fee of $150 for a foreign limited liability ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 31 M.R.S. 1680(6)
Annual report tag, corporation
$85 a year, tax not included.
... an annual report or amended annual report, the fee is ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. 123(1)(DD)
The restocking fee, as charged by Maine
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
... The corporation does not notify the Secretary of State that its clerk has changed as required by Title 5, section 108, subsection 1 or the address of its clerk has been changed as required by Title 5, section 109 or 110 or that its clerk has resigned as required by Title 5, section 111;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §1420(4)-(5)
Pulled from the shelf by the state
... The limited liability company does not notify the Secretary of State that its registered agent has changed as required by Title 5, section 108, subsection 1 or the address of its registered agent has been changed as required by Title 5, section 109 or 110 or that its registered agent has resigned as required by Title 5, section 111;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 31 M.R.S. §1591(4)-(5)
Out-of-state authority, returned
... The foreign corporation does not notify the Secretary of State that its registered agent has changed as required by Title 5, section 108, subsection 1 or the address of its registered agent has been changed as required by Title 5, section 109 or 110 or that its registered agent has resigned as required by Title 5, section 111;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §1531-A(4)-(5)
Also on the shelf
... not transact any business in this State except as necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under section 1406 and notify claimants under sections 1407 ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §1421(3)
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
... If process, notice or demand cannot be served on an entity pursuant to subsection 1 or 2, service of process may be made by handing a copy to the manager, clerk or other person in charge of any regular place of business or activity of the entity
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 5 M.R.S. §113(2)-(3)
The price of getting the company back
Reinstatement, the price on the tag
... For an application for reinstatement following administrative dissolution for failure to notify the Secretary of State that its clerk or the address of its clerk has been changed or that its clerk has resigned, the fee is $150.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §123(1)(W)-(X)
Reinstatement, the price on the tag
... for failure to notify the Secretary of State that the registered agent or the address of the registered agent has been changed or failure to appoint a replacement registered agent after the registered agent has resigned, a fee of $150
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 31 M.R.S. §1680(17)
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.