LA registered agent
Louisiana. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
Louisiana 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 Louisiana 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
... the corporation has failed for ninety consecutive days to do either of the following: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1-1442(A)-(B)
Also in the water
... state may thereafter be treated as the registered office by any person other than the limited liability company itself. The registered office shall be considered the domicile of the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1308(F)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... C. Upon revocation, the authority of the corporation to transact ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:313(A)(2), (B), (C)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... as required by this Chapter ... (1) The secretary of state shall have given the limited liability company not less than sixty days' notice in writing of the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1353(A)(2), (B)
Locked out of the courthouse
... present any judicial demand before any court of this state unless it has been authorized to transact such business, if ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:314(A); La. R.S. 12:1354(A)
A civil penalty, in dollars
... more than one thousand dollars per violation against such foreign corporations transacting ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:314.1(B); La. R.S. 12:1355(B)
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What Louisiana asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The Louisiana code, undiluted:
... (ii) Files with the secretary of state a statement setting forth the name of at least two individuals at its address in this state, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1-501(2); see also La. R.S. 12:1308(A)(2) (LLC); La. R.S. 12:308(A)(1) (foreign corporation)
The Louisiana annual report, which can also be left to settle
Louisiana charges a yearly amount to keep a company on its books. Here it is. Leaving it unpaid saves the whole amount, in exactly the way the rest of this site saves you money.
Yearly report fee for an LLC
$30 each year, down the drain.
Domestic limited liability companies ... Annual Reports $30
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Louisiana Secretary of State, Commercial Division - Forms & Fee Schedule (Domestic limited liability companies)
Yearly report fee for a corporation
$30 each year, down the drain.
Domestic corporations ... Annual Report $30
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Louisiana Secretary of State, Commercial Division - Forms & Fee Schedule (Domestic corporations)
The refill fee
The refill fee
... of an annual report for each year between the corporation's last annual report and the year in which ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1-1444(F)(2); La. R.S. 12:1308.2(C)(1)(c)
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... of the following: (1) The date the corporation receives the mail. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1-504(B)
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.