ME registered agent
Registered agent service in Maine, $37 per year, within tolerance
Maine 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 Maine annual report, an average obligation
Maine 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
$85 per year. Average.
... annual report under section 1665, a fee of $85 for a limited liability company or a fee of $150 for a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 31 M.R.S. 1680(6)
Annual report charge, corporation
$85 per year. Average.
... annual report or amended annual ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. 123(1)(DD)
Expectations set by Maine
Expectation
As set out in the Maine code:
... The clerk may be, but is not required to be, one of the directors or officers of the corporation, or the clerk may be a person holding no other position with the corporation. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §511; 31 M.R.S. §1661; 5 M.R.S. §102(5), (17) and §105(1)
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
... mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the governors of the entity by name ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 5 M.R.S. §113(2)-(3)
Corrective action available to Maine
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
... The corporation does not notify the Secretary of State that its ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §1420(4)-(5)
Dissolution, administrative
... The limited liability company does not notify the Secretary of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 31 M.R.S. §1591(4)-(5)
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... The foreign corporation does not notify the Secretary of State ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §1531-A(4)-(5)
Additionally
... but may not transact any business in this State except as necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under section 1406 and notify claimants ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §1421(3)
Return to good standing, priced
Charge to return to good standing
... X. For an application for reinstatement following administrative ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 13-C M.R.S. §123(1)(W)-(X)
Charge to return to good standing
... the annual report late filing penalty, a fee of $150; for failure to appoint or maintain a registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 31 M.R.S. §1680(17)
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.