NJ registered agent
Registered agent service in New Jersey, $37 per year, within tolerance
New Jersey 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 New Jersey annual report, an average obligation
New Jersey 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
$75 per year. Average.
... Liability Company (LLC) Filing ... Annual Report ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 42:2C-93 ('Upon filing of an annual report, a fee in the amount of $75.00')
Annual report charge, corporation
$75 per year. Average.
Annual Report - corporate and LP $75.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:15-2 ('for each such report required to be filed...... $75.00')
Expectations set by New Jersey
Expectation
As set out in the New Jersey code:
... [42:2C-14(c):] An agent for service of process of a limited liability company or foreign limited liability company shall be an individual who is a resident of this State or other person with authority to transact business in this State.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-1(1), (3); N.J.S.A. 42:2C-14(c)
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 of any process, notice, or demand on the filing office as agent ... may be made by delivering to the filing office duplicate copies of the process, notice, or demand.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 42:2C-17(b)-(c)
Corrective action available to New Jersey
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.
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... or (d) the corporation has failed, after change of its registered office or registered agent, to file in the office of the Secretary of State a statement of such change as required by this act;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-10(1)(c)
Additionally
... designate a new registered agent within said 30-day period, the corporation shall thereafter be deemed to have no registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-4(3)
Standing in court withdrawn
... business in this State without a certificate of authority shall maintain any action or proceeding in any court of this State, until such corporation ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-11(1)
Penalty, civil
... without a certificate of authority shall forfeit to the State a penalty of not less than $200.00, nor more than $1,000.00 for each calendar year, not more than 5 years prior thereto, in which it ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:13-11(3)
Return to good standing, priced
Charge to return to good standing
... consisting of a reinstatement filing fee of $75.00, tax clearance filing fee of $20, current annual report fee, and all delinquent annual report fees ... In the event that in the interim the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.J.S.A. 14A:4-5(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.