RI registered agent
Rhode Island registered agent, $19, same as every other aisle
Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island puts on the label
The label
Straight from the Rhode Island code, no markdown:
... or (iii) A foreign corporation ... authorized to transact business in this state, in each case, having a business office identical with the office of such registered agent which generally is open during normal business hours to accept service of process ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-501(a); § 7-16-11(a) (LLC)
The Rhode Island annual report, priced by the state, skippable by you
Every year Rhode Island 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.
For filing an annual report, a fee of fifty dollars ($50.00)
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-16-65(13)
Annual report tag, corporation
$50 a year, tax not included.
An annual report, fifty dollars ($50.00)
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-1602
The restocking fee, as charged by Rhode Island
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
... or (5) 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 the change as required by this chapter;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-1310(a)(4)-(5)
Out-of-state authority, returned
... or (3) The corporation fails, after changing its registered office or registered agent, to file in the office of the secretary of state a statement of the change as required by this chapter;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-1414(a)(2)-(3)
Pulled from the shelf by the state
... (5) The limited liability company has failed, after change of its resident agent, to file in the office of the secretary of state a statement of the change as required by this chapter;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-16-41(a)(4)-(5)
Penalty, priced by the state
... the registered agent's authority, is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, may be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonment of not more than one ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-501(b)
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 on the secretary of state ... is made by delivering to and leaving with him or her ... duplicate copies of the process, notice, or demand.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-503(b); § 7-16-11(e) (LLC)
The price of getting the company back
Reinstatement, the price on the tag
... or foreign, a penalty in the amount of fifty dollars ($50.00) for each year or part of a year that has elapsed since the issuance of the certificate of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-1602(b)(1); § 7-1.2-1312(a); § 7-16-43(a)(2) (LLC)
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.