HI registered agent
Registered agent service in Hawaii, $37 per year, within tolerance
Hawaii expects each company on its register to keep a registered agent at a street address inside the state. The expectation is set out below in the state's own language. Our performance against it is rated further down. The rating has been consistent.
The Hawaii annual report, an average obligation
incFACTS has not verified an annual report fee for Hawaii. We have not followed up. Following up is an above-average activity.
Expectations set by Hawaii
Expectation
As set out in the Hawaii code:
... or (3) A foreign entity authorized to transact business or conduct affairs in this State.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-61; sec. 428-107; sec. 425R-3
Performance against expectations
Does not meet. Consistently. We regard the consistency as the achievement.
Delivery of papers when the desk is unattended
Service by other means
... State, and the corporation has not filed with the department director, pursuant to this chapter, the name of a registered agent upon whom legal notice and process from the courts of the State may ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-64(a)-(c); sec. 428-110(a)-(c); sec. 414-440(b) (foreign corporations)
Corrective action available to Hawaii
Where an agent performs at our level, the state applies the following. Quoted from the code without adjustment, because adjusting it would take effort we have allocated elsewhere.
Dissolution, administrative
... (2) File its annual report for a period of two years; (3) Appoint and maintain an agent for service of process as required; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-401(3)-(4); sec. 428-809(3)-(4)
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... (B) File its annual report for a period of two years; (C) Appoint and maintain an agent for service of process as required; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-461(1)(C); sec. 428-1006(a)(1)(C)
Additionally
... The company ceases existence upon the completion of these matters.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 428-810(c)-(d); sec. 414-402(c)-(d)
Standing in court withdrawn
... business in this State without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this State until ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-432(a), (d); sec. 428-1008(a), (e)
Return to good standing, priced
Charge to return to good standing
A corporation administratively dissolved under section 414-402 may apply to the department director for reinstatement within two years after the effective date of dissolution. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: HRS sec. 414-403(a); sec. 428-811(a); sec. 428-1301(a)(7)
Quoted statutory text was captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and re-checked against the code on 2026-08-10. Statutes are revised at their own pace. This page is revised at ours.