OH registered agent
Ohio. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
Ohio 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 Ohio 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
... within thirty days after the mailing by the secretary of state of the notice or within any further period of time that the secretary of state grants, upon the expiration of that period of time ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(M); § 1706.09(L)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... Unless that failure is cured within thirty days... the secretary of state, upon the expiration of such period, shall cancel the license of the foreign corporation to transact business in this state...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1703.15
Locked out of the courthouse
... Before any such corporation shall maintain such action on any cause of action arising at the time when it was not licensed to transact business in this state, it shall pay to the secretary of state a forfeiture of two hundred fifty dollars...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1703.29(A), (C)
A civil penalty, in dollars
... of the Revised Code, which transacts business in this state without being so licensed, or when its license has expired or been canceled and has not been reinstated, shall forfeit not less ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1703.28
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What Ohio asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The Ohio code, undiluted:
... The agent shall be one of the following: (1) A natural person who is a resident of this state; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(A), (C)(2); § 1706.09(A); § 1703.041(A)
The Ohio annual report, which can also be left to settle
incFACTS has not verified the Ohio annual report fee, and the film on top of our records did not part for it.
The refill fee
The refill fee
... years of the cancellation, on a form prescribed by the secretary of state, an application for reinstatement and the required appointment of agent or required statement, and by paying the filing fee ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(M); § 1706.09(L); § 1703.15
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... stating that one of the foregoing conditions exists... then service of process, notice, or demand upon the secretary of state, as the agent of the corporation, may be initiated by delivering to the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(H); § 1706.09(H)(2); § 1703.19
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.