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
... agent in this state for sixty days or more; (4) The corporation does not notify the Office of the Secretary of State within sixty days that its registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1420(3)-(4)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... registered agent in this state for sixty days or more; (4) The foreign corporation does not inform the secretary of state by an appropriate filing that its registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1530(3)-(4)
Locked out of the courthouse
... state without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until it obtains a certificate of authority.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1502
A civil penalty, in dollars
... exceed a total of one thousand dollars for each year, it transacts business in this state without a certificate of authority. The attorney general may ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1502.2
Also in the water
... to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under §§ 47-1A-1405 and 47-1A-1405.1 ... The administrative dissolution of a corporation does not terminate the authority of its registered ...
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 (b) The title of an office or other position with the entity ...
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.
... reporting fee of fifty-five dollars, due and payable with the filing of each annual report.
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
... three hundred dollars, plus any delinquent annual report filing fees and associated penalty fees for ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-122(17)
The refill fee
... fees for any delinquent annual report and a fee for application of reinstatement in the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-34A-811(a)
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... Service is perfected under this section at the earliest of: (1) The date the entity receives the mail; ...
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.