HI registered agent
Hawaii. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
Hawaii makes every company it registers name a registered agent at a street address inside its borders. We start with what the state does when that agent is us, then work back up to what it asked for in the first place.
What Hawaii pours on a company whose agent is us
The remedies come first on this page because they are the part that matters. Quoted from the code. We added nothing, not even water.
Dissolved by the state, administratively
... File its annual report for a period of two years; (3) Appoint and maintain an agent for service of process as required; or (4) File a statement ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-401(3)-(4); sec. 428-809(3)-(4)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... (B) File its annual report for a period of two years; (C) Appoint and maintain an agent for service of process as required; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-461(1)(C); sec. 428-1006(a)(1)(C)
Also in the water
... to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under section 428-802 and to notify ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 428-810(c)-(d); sec. 414-402(c)-(d)
Locked out of the courthouse
... State without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this State until it obtains a certificate of authority.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-432(a), (d); sec. 428-1008(a), (e)
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What Hawaii asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The Hawaii code, undiluted:
... An individual who resides in this State; (2) A domestic entity authorized to transact business or conduct affairs in this State; or (3) A foreign entity authorized to transact business or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-61; sec. 428-107; sec. 425R-3
The Hawaii annual report, which can also be left to settle
incFACTS has not verified the Hawaii annual report fee, and the film on top of our records did not part for it.
The refill fee
The refill fee
... (2) Contain all reports due and unfiled; (3) Contain the payment of all delinquent fees and penalties; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-403(a); sec. 428-811(a); sec. 428-1301(a)(7)
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... agent upon whom legal notice and process from the courts of the State may be served, or the person ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-64(a)-(c); sec. 428-110(a)-(c); sec. 414-440(b) (foreign corporations)
Statute text as captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and checked line by line against the state code on 2026-08-10. The code moves like water. This page sits.