MT registered agent
Montana. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
Montana 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 Montana 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
... (4) the secretary of state has not been notified within 60 days that the corporation's registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered office has been discontinued;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-14-1420(3)-(4); procedure at 35-14-1421
Dissolved by the state, administratively
... or (ii) has failed for 60 days to appoint and maintain a registered agent in this state; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-8-209(1)(a); procedure at 35-8-914
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... or (d) the secretary of state has not been notified within 60 days that the foreign corporation's registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered office has been discontinued.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-14-1511(1)(c)-(d); see also MCA 35-8-1011(2)-(3) (foreign LLCs)
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What Montana asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The Montana code, undiluted:
... Each corporation shall continuously maintain in this state a registered office and a registered agent in compliance with Title 35, chapter 7.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-7-102(13), 35-7-104; MCA 35-14-501(1)
The Montana annual report, which can also be left to settle
Yearly report fee for an LLC
Montana files the annual report at no charge. Leave it anyway. It keeps the sediment consistent.
... Prior To April 15th WAIVED / Annual Report After April ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: MT SOS Business Services Filing Fees - Limited Liability Companies, Both Domestic & Foreign Filings
Yearly report fee for a corporation
Montana files the annual report at no charge. Leave it anyway. It keeps the sediment consistent.
... Prior To April 15th WAIVED / Annual Report - After April ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: MT SOS Business Services Filing Fees - Corporations, Both Domestic & Foreign Filings
The refill fee
The refill fee
... and (c) all annual reports not yet filed with the secretary of state and related fees and penalties.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-14-1422(1)-(2); see also MCA 35-8-912 (LLCs)
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... If process, notice, or demand cannot be served on a corporation pursuant to subsection (1) or (2) ... then the secretary of state is an agent of the corporation on whom process, notice, or demand may be served.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCA 35-14-504(2)-(3); see also MCA 35-7-113(2)
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.