ME registered agent
Maine. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
Maine 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 Maine 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
... Secretary of State that its clerk has changed as required by Title 5, section 108, subsection 1 or the address of its clerk has been changed as required by Title ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §1420(4)-(5)
Dissolved by the state, administratively
... of State that its registered agent has changed as required by Title 5, section 108, subsection 1 or the address of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 31 M.R.S. §1591(4)-(5)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... that its registered agent has changed as required by Title 5, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §1531-A(4)-(5)
Also in the water
... any business in this State except as necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under section 1406 and notify claimants under sections 1407 and 1408.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §1421(3)
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What Maine asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The Maine code, undiluted:
... not required to be, one of the directors or officers of the corporation, or the clerk may be a person holding no other position with the corporation. ... The clerk required under this section is also ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §511; 31 M.R.S. §1661; 5 M.R.S. §102(5), (17) and §105(1)
The Maine annual report, which can also be left to settle
Maine 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
$85 each year, down the drain.
... under section 1665, a fee of $85 for a limited liability company or a fee of $150 for a foreign limited liability ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 31 M.R.S. 1680(6)
Yearly report fee for a corporation
$85 each year, down the drain.
... annual report or amended annual report, the fee is $85.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. 123(1)(DD)
The refill fee
The refill fee
... application for reinstatement following administrative dissolution for failure to notify the Secretary of State that its clerk or the address of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §123(1)(W)-(X)
The refill fee
... appoint or maintain a registered agent, a fee of $150; for failure to notify the Secretary of State that the registered agent or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 31 M.R.S. §1680(17)
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... accordance with any applicable judicial rules and procedures. ... If process, notice or demand cannot ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 5 M.R.S. §113(2)-(3)
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.