UT registered agent
Utah. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
Utah 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 Utah 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 give notice to the division within 30 days that its registered agent has been changed or that its registered agent has resigned
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-10a-1420(3)-(4); procedure at 16-10a-1421
Dissolved by the state, administratively
... (2) and (3) to dissolve a limited liability company administratively if the limited liability company does not: ... (c) have a registered agent in ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 48-3a-708(1)(c)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... (4) the foreign corporation does not inform the division by an appropriate filing within 30 days of the change or resignation that its registered agent has changed or that its registered agent has resigned
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-10a-1530(3)-(4); procedure at 16-10a-1531
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... or (d) deliver to the division for filing a statement of a change under Section 16-17-206 not later than 30 days after a change has occurred in the name or address of the registered agent.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 48-3a-910(1)(c)-(d)
Locked out of the courthouse
... state without authority, or anyone in its behalf, may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until an application for authority to transact ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-10a-1502(1); 48-3a-902(2)
A civil penalty, in dollars
... However, the penalty may not exceed a total of $5,000 for each year. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-10a-1502(4)-(5)
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What Utah asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The Utah code, undiluted:
... or (b) the individual who holds the office or other position in an entity that is designated as the agent for service of process pursuant to Subsection 16-17-203(1)(b)(ii).
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-17-102(14); see also 16-17-202, 16-17-203(1), 48-3a-111(1)
The Utah annual report, which can also be left to settle
Utah 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
$18 each year, down the drain.
*Domestic/foreign limited liability company (LLC) $18
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: FY2026 Fee Schedule sec. 3 Renewal/Annual Report Filings
Yearly report fee for a corporation
$18 each year, down the drain.
*Domestic/foreign corporation $18
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: FY2026 Fee Schedule sec. 3 Renewal/Annual Report Filings
The refill fee
The refill fee
... and penalties that were due to the division at the time of its administrative dissolution and all fees, taxes, interest, and penalties that would have been due to the division while the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 48-3a-709(4); 16-10a-1422(1)(a)(vi)-(vii), (1)(b)
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the entity may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the governors of the entity by name ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-17-301(2)-(3)
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.