RI registered agent
Rhode Island. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island 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
... or (5) The corporation has failed, after change of its registered office or registered agent, to file in the office of the secretary of state a statement of the change as required by this chapter;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-1310(a)(4)-(5)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... agent in this state as required by this chapter; or (3) The corporation fails, after changing its registered office or registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-1414(a)(2)-(3)
Dissolved by the state, administratively
... (5) The limited liability company has failed, after change of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-16-41(a)(4)-(5)
A civil penalty, in dollars
... authority, is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, may be ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-501(b)
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What Rhode Island asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The Rhode Island code, undiluted:
... or (iii) A foreign corporation ... authorized to transact business ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-501(a); § 7-16-11(a) (LLC)
The Rhode Island annual report, which can also be left to settle
Rhode Island 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
$50 each year, down the drain.
For filing an annual report, a fee of fifty dollars ($50.00)
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-16-65(13)
Yearly report fee for a corporation
$50 each year, down the drain.
An annual report, fifty dollars ($50.00)
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-1602
The refill fee
The refill fee
... or foreign, a penalty in the amount of fifty dollars ($50.00) for each year or part of a year that has elapsed since the issuance of the certificate ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-1602(b)(1); § 7-1.2-1312(a); § 7-16-43(a)(2) (LLC)
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... is an agent of the corporation upon whom any process, notice, or demand may be served. Service on the secretary of state ... is made by delivering to and leaving ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-503(b); § 7-16-11(e) (LLC)
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.