NC registered agent
North Carolina registered agent, $19, same as every other aisle
North Carolina 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 North Carolina puts on the label
The label
Straight from the North Carolina code, no markdown:
... A foreign corporation, foreign nonprofit corporation, or foreign limited liability company authorized to transact business or conduct affairs in this State whose business office is identical with the registered office.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55D-30(a)
The North Carolina annual report, priced by the state, skippable by you
Every year North Carolina 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
$200 a year, tax not included.
(28) Annual report $200.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. 57D-1-22(a)(28)
The restocking fee, as charged by North Carolina
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 corporation does not notify the Secretary of State within 60 days that 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: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55-14-20(3)-(4); § 55-14-21(b); § 57D-6-06(a)(3)-(4)
Out-of-state authority, returned
... 55-15-31 to revoke the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this State if: ... (3) The foreign corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this State for 60 days or more...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55-15-30(a)(3)-(4); § 55-15-31(d); § 57D-7-30(a)(3)-(4)
Also on the shelf
... as a limited liability partnership, the expiration of five years after the effective date of the administrative dissolution or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55D-21(d)(2)
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
... 55D-30 fails to appoint or maintain a registered agent in this State, or when its registered agent cannot with due diligence be found at the registered office, or when the Secretary of State revokes a certificate of authority or a statement of foreign registration of a foreign entity... the Secretary of State becomes an agent of the entity upon whom any such process, notice or demand may be served.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55D-33(b)
The price of getting the company back
Reinstatement, the price on the tag
... 55-14-21 may apply to the Secretary of State for reinstatement... [Fee schedule:] (16) Application for reinstatement following administrative dissolution 100.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55-14-22; § 55-1-22(a)(16)
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.