ND registered agent
North Dakota registered agent, $19, same as every other aisle
North Dakota 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 Dakota puts on the label
The label
Straight from the North Dakota code, no markdown:
... A domestic or foreign corporation or a domestic or foreign limited liability company.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-01.1-02(2), (19), (32); § 10-19.1-15; § 10-32.1-16
The North Dakota annual report, priced by the state, skippable by you
Every year North Dakota 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
$50 a year, tax not included.
... liability company or foreign limited liability company, fifty ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. 10-32.1-92(25)
Annual report tag, corporation
$25 a year, tax not included.
... of a corporation or foreign corporation, twenty-five ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. 10-19.1-147(24)
The restocking fee, as charged by North Dakota
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
... to appoint and maintain a registered agent and registered office as provided in section 10-19.1-15... Upon expiration of sixty days after the mailing of the notice, the existence of the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-146.1(1); § 10-32.1-90(1)
Out-of-state authority, returned
... agent and registered office as provided in section 10-19.1-138... Upon expiration of sixty days after the mailing of the notice, the authority of the foreign corporation to transact business in ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-146.1(2); § 10-32.1-90(2)
Also on the shelf
... Until restored to good standing, the secretary of state may not accept for filing any document respecting the corporation or foreign corporation except those incident to its dissolution or withdrawal.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-146.1(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
... When a foreign entity transacts business without a certificate of authority; b. When a domestic entity has been dissolved; c. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-01.1-13(1), (3), (5)-(6); § 10-32.1-19(2)
The price of getting the company back
Reinstatement, the price on the tag
... revocation of the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation, the reinstatement fee of one hundred thirty-five ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-147(24)(a)(3); § 10-32.1-92(25)(a)(2); § 10-19.1-146(8)
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.