SD registered agent
South Dakota registered agent, $19, same as every other aisle
South 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 South Dakota puts on the label
The label
Straight from the South Dakota code, no markdown:
... or (b) The title of an office or other position with the entity if service of process is to be sent to the person holding that office or position, and the address of the business office of that person.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 59-11-6
The South Dakota annual report, priced by the state, skippable by you
Every year South 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
$55 a year, tax not included.
... dollars, due and payable with the filing of each annual ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/47-34A-212
Annual report tag, corporation
$55 a year, tax not included.
(25) Annual report, fifty-five dollars;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL 47-1A-122(25) (as amended by SL 2025 ch. 189 s. 1)
The restocking fee, as charged by South 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
... (4) The corporation does not notify the Office of the Secretary of State within sixty days that its registered agent has been changed or that its registered agent has resigned...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1420(3)-(4)
Out-of-state authority, returned
... (4) The foreign corporation does not inform the secretary of state by an appropriate filing that its registered agent has changed or that its registered agent has resigned within sixty days of the change or resignation;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1530(3)-(4)
No entry to the courthouse
... a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until it obtains a certificate of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1502
Penalty, priced by the state
... The attorney general may collect all penalties due under this section.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1502.2
Also on the shelf
... necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under §§ 47-1A-1405 and 47-1A-1405.1 ... The administrative dissolution of a corporation does not terminate the authority of its ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1421
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
... or (3) Five days after its deposit with the United States Postal Service...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 59-11-16
The price of getting the company back
Reinstatement, the price on the tag
... three hundred dollars, plus any delinquent annual report filing fees and associated penalty fees for the period before the reinstatement ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-122(17)
Reinstatement, the price on the tag
... any delinquent annual report and a fee for application of reinstatement in the amount of one hundred fifty ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-34A-811(a)
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.