NJ registered agent
New Jersey. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
New Jersey 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 New Jersey 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.
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... failed to maintain a registered agent in this State as required by this act; or (d) the corporation has failed, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-10(1)(c)
Also in the water
... registered agent within said 30-day period, the corporation shall thereafter be deemed to have no registered agent or registered office in this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-4(3)
Locked out of the courthouse
... certificate of authority shall maintain any action or proceeding in any court of this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-11(1)
A civil penalty, in dollars
... of not less than $200.00, nor more than $1,000.00 for each calendar year, not more than 5 years prior thereto, in which it shall have transacted ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-11(3)
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What New Jersey asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The New Jersey code, undiluted:
... which a corporation may be organized under this act. [42:2C-14(c):] An agent for service of process of a limited liability company or foreign limited liability ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-1(1), (3); N.J.S.A. 42:2C-14(c)
The New Jersey annual report, which can also be left to settle
New Jersey 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
$75 each year, down the drain.
... Liability Company (LLC) Filing ... Annual Report $75.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 42:2C-93 ('Upon filing of an annual report, a fee in the amount of $75.00')
Yearly report fee for a corporation
$75 each year, down the drain.
Annual Report - corporate and LP $75.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:15-2 ('for each such report required to be filed...... $75.00')
The refill fee
The refill fee
... In the event that in the interim the corporate name has become unavailable, the State Treasurer shall issue the certificate upon ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-5(7)
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... filing office is an agent of the company upon whom process, notice, or demand may be served. c. Service of any process, notice, or demand on the filing office as agent ... may be made by delivering to ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 42:2C-17(b)-(c)
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.