KY registered agent
Registered agent service in Kentucky, $37 per year, within tolerance
Kentucky 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 Kentucky annual report, an average obligation
Kentucky bills each company annually to remain on the register. The amount is below. Paying it is standard practice. Not paying it is also a practice, and the rest of this page describes it.
Annual report charge, LLC
$15 per year. Average.
... annual report must be signed, dated and accompanied by a $15 ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.sos.ky.gov/bus/business-filings/Pages/Annual-Reports.aspx
Annual report charge, corporation
$15 per year. Average.
Domestic Corporations (Profit and Professional Service) - Annual Report: ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Kentucky Secretary of State, Business Filings - Fees
Expectations set by Kentucky
Expectation
As set out in the Kentucky code:
... in this Commonwealth and whose business address is identical with the registered office; or 2. An entity or foreign entity qualified to transact business in this Commonwealth whose business address is ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.4-010(1)(b)
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
... may be served with process, or any notice or demand may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.4-040(2)
Corrective action available to Kentucky
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
... (c) If the entity does not notify the Secretary of State within ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.7-010(1)(b)-(c)
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... without a registered office or registered agent in this Commonwealth for sixty (60) days or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-070(2)-(3)
Standing in court withdrawn
... in this Commonwealth without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this Commonwealth ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-020(1)
Penalty, civil
... of two dollars ($2) for each day it transacts business in this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-020(4)
Additionally
... be considered to appoint the Secretary of State the foreign entity's registered agent in any proceeding based on a cause of action which arose during the time the foreign ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.9-080(4)
Return to good standing, priced
Charge to return to good standing
... by the reinstatement penalty and the current fee for filing each delinquent annual report as provided for in ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: KRS 14A.7-030(1)(g)
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.