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
... state of the notice or within any further period of time that the secretary of state grants, upon the expiration of that period ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(M); § 1706.09(L)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... shall give notice thereof by certified mail to the corporation. Unless that failure is cured within thirty days... the secretary ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1703.15
Locked out of the courthouse
... 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 ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1703.29(A), (C)
A civil penalty, in dollars
... this state without being so licensed, or when its license has expired or been canceled and has not been reinstated, shall forfeit not less than two hundred fifty dollars nor more than ten thousand ...
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:
... be one of the following: (1) A natural person who is a resident of this state; (2) A domestic or foreign corporation, nonprofit ...
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
... the secretary of state, an application for reinstatement and the required appointment of agent or required statement, and by paying the filing fee specified in division (Q) of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(M); § 1706.09(L); § 1703.15
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... of process, notice, or demand upon the secretary of state, as the agent of the corporation, may be initiated by delivering to the secretary of state ...
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.