MT registered agent
Montana registered agent, $19, same as every other aisle
Montana 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 Montana puts on the label
The label
Straight from the Montana code, no markdown:
... Each corporation shall continuously maintain in this state a registered office and a registered agent in compliance with Title 35, chapter 7.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-7-102(13), 35-7-104; MCA 35-14-501(1)
The Montana annual report, priced by the state, skippable by you
Annual report tag, LLC
Montana charges nothing for the annual report. Skip it anyway. Free things still take up shelf space.
... To April 15th WAIVED / Annual Report After April 15th ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: MT SOS Business Services Filing Fees - Limited Liability Companies, Both Domestic & Foreign Filings
Annual report tag, corporation
Montana charges nothing for the annual report. Skip it anyway. Free things still take up shelf space.
... April 15th WAIVED / Annual Report - After April 15th ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: MT SOS Business Services Filing Fees - Corporations, Both Domestic & Foreign Filings
The restocking fee, as charged by Montana
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
... (4) the secretary of state has not been notified within 60 days that the corporation's 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: MCA 35-14-1420(3)-(4); procedure at 35-14-1421
Pulled from the shelf by the state
... By reason of the default, the limited liability company may be involuntarily dissolved by order of the secretary of state, thereby forfeiting its right to transact any business in this state.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-8-209(1)(a); procedure at 35-8-914
Out-of-state authority, returned
... or (d) the secretary of state has not been notified within 60 days that the foreign corporation's 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: MCA 35-14-1511(1)(c)-(d); see also MCA 35-8-1011(2)-(3) (foreign LLCs)
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 a corporation pursuant to subsection (1) or (2) ... then the secretary of state is an agent of the corporation on whom process, notice, or demand may be served.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-14-504(2)-(3); see also MCA 35-7-113(2)
The price of getting the company back
Reinstatement, the price on the tag
... and (c) all annual reports not yet filed with the secretary of state and related fees and penalties.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-14-1422(1)-(2); see also MCA 35-8-912 (LLCs)
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.