LA registered agent
Registered agent service in Louisiana, $37 per year, within tolerance
Louisiana 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 Louisiana annual report, an average obligation
Louisiana 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
$30 per year. Average.
Domestic limited liability companies ... Annual Reports $30
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Louisiana Secretary of State, Commercial Division - Forms & Fee Schedule (Domestic limited liability companies)
Annual report charge, corporation
$30 per year. Average.
Domestic corporations ... Annual Report $30
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Louisiana Secretary of State, Commercial Division - Forms & Fee Schedule (Domestic corporations)
Expectations set by Louisiana
Expectation
As set out in the Louisiana code:
... (b) A domestic or foreign corporation or other eligible entity that does all of the following: (i) Continuously maintains an office in this state and, in the case of a foreign corporation or foreign eligible entity, is authorized to transact business in this state. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1-501(2); see also La. R.S. 12:1308(A)(2) (LLC); La. R.S. 12:308(A)(1) (foreign corporation)
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
... Service is perfected under this Subsection at the earliest of the following: (1) The date the corporation receives the mail. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1-504(B)
Corrective action available to Louisiana
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
... 12:1-501 concerning the continuous maintenance in this state of a registered office and registered agent.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1-1442(A)-(B)
Additionally
... The registered office shall be considered the domicile of the limited liability company for all purposes.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1308(F)
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... Upon revocation, the authority of the corporation to transact business in this state shall cease, but the authority of its registered agent in this state to accept service of process shall continue.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:313(A)(2), (B), (C)
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... agent or a registered office in this state or to maintain records as required by this Chapter ... (1) The secretary of state shall have given the limited liability company not less than ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1353(A)(2), (B)
Standing in court withdrawn
... business in this state shall be permitted to present any judicial demand before any court of this state unless it has been authorized to transact such business, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:314(A); La. R.S. 12:1354(A)
Penalty, civil
... impose a penalty of not more than one thousand dollars per violation against such foreign corporations transacting business in this state ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:314.1(B); La. R.S. 12:1355(B)
Return to good standing, priced
Charge to return to good standing
... the filing of an annual report for each year between the corporation's last annual report and the year in ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: La. R.S. 12:1-1444(F)(2); La. R.S. 12:1308.2(C)(1)(c)
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.