NJ registered agent
New Jersey registered agent, $19, same as every other aisle
New Jersey 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 New Jersey puts on the label
The label
Straight from the New Jersey code, no markdown:
... [42:2C-14(c):] An agent for service of process of a limited liability company or foreign limited liability company shall be an individual who is a resident of this State or other person with authority to transact business in this State.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-1(1), (3); N.J.S.A. 42:2C-14(c)
The New Jersey annual report, priced by the state, skippable by you
Every year New Jersey 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
$75 a year, tax not included.
... Liability Company (LLC) Filing ... Annual Report ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 42:2C-93 ('Upon filing of an annual report, a fee in the amount of $75.00')
Annual report tag, corporation
$75 a year, tax not included.
Annual Report - corporate and LP $75.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:15-2 ('for each such report required to be filed...... $75.00')
The restocking fee, as charged by New Jersey
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.
Out-of-state authority, returned
... or (d) the corporation has failed, after change of its registered office or registered agent, to file in the office of the Secretary of State a statement of such change as required by this act;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-10(1)(c)
Also on the shelf
... within said 30-day period, the corporation shall thereafter be deemed to have no registered agent or registered office in this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-4(3)
No entry to the courthouse
... of authority shall maintain any action or proceeding in any court of this State, until such corporation shall have obtained a certificate of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-11(1)
Penalty, priced by the state
... penalty of not less than $200.00, nor more than $1,000.00 for each calendar year, not more than 5 years prior thereto, in which it shall have transacted business in this State without a certificate ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-11(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
... Service of any process, notice, or demand on the filing office as agent ... may be made by delivering to the filing office duplicate copies of the process, notice, or demand.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 42:2C-17(b)-(c)
The price of getting the company back
Reinstatement, the price on the tag
... in the interim the corporate name has become unavailable, the State Treasurer shall issue the certificate upon ... the filing of an amendment to its certificate of incorporation to change the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-5(7)
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.