SD registered agent
South Dakota. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
South Dakota 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 South Dakota 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 corporation does not notify the Office of the Secretary of State within sixty days that its registered agent has been changed or that its registered agent has resigned...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1420(3)-(4)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... (4) The foreign corporation does not inform the secretary of state by an appropriate filing that its registered agent has changed or that its registered agent has resigned within sixty days of the change or resignation;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1530(3)-(4)
Locked out of the courthouse
... in this state without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until it ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1502
A civil penalty, in dollars
... The attorney general may collect all penalties due under this section.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1502.2
Also in the water
... but may not carry on any business except that necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under §§ 47-1A-1405 and 47-1A-1405.1 ... The administrative dissolution of a corporation ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1421
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What South Dakota asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The South Dakota code, undiluted:
... or (2) If the entity does not have a commercial registered agent: (a) The name and address of the entity's noncommercial registered agent; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 59-11-6
The South Dakota annual report, which can also be left to settle
South Dakota 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
$55 each year, down the drain.
... of fifty-five dollars, due and payable with the filing of each ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/47-34A-212
Yearly report fee for a corporation
$55 each year, down the drain.
(25) Annual report, fifty-five dollars;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL 47-1A-122(25) (as amended by SL 2025 ch. 189 s. 1)
The refill fee
The refill fee
... administrative dissolution, three hundred dollars, plus any delinquent annual report filing fees and associated penalty fees for the period ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-122(17)
The refill fee
... filing fees for any delinquent annual report and a fee for application of reinstatement in the amount of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-34A-811(a)
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... or (3) Five days after its deposit with the United States Postal Service...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 59-11-16
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.