NM registered agent
Registered agent service in New Mexico, $37 per year, within tolerance
New Mexico 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 Mexico annual report, an average obligation
New Mexico 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
New Mexico bills no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. There is nothing to economize on here, which we found unremarkable.
... a domestic or foreign corporation that is not exempted shall file in the office of the secretary of state within thirty days after the date on which its certificate of incorporation or its ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-5-2(A) (corporate report duty runs to corporations only)
Annual report charge, corporation
$25 per year. Average.
... report and filing a supplemental report, a fee of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978 ยง 53-2-1(A)(16)
Expectations set by New Mexico
Expectation
As set out in the New Mexico code:
... a registered agent, which agent may be either an individual resident in this state whose business office is identical with the registered office, or a domestic corporation, or a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state, having a business office identical with the registered office.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-11-11; NMSA 1978, 53-19-5(A)
Performance against expectations
Does not meet. Consistently. We regard the consistency as the achievement.
Delivery of papers when the desk is unattended
New Mexico keeps its rule for serving a company with an absent agent in another part of the code. We reviewed the table of contents and found it adequate.
Corrective action available to New Mexico
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
... If the delinquency is not corrected within sixty days from the date the letter is mailed, the commission [secretary of state] shall issue a certificate of revocation
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-11-12(A)-(B)
Additionally
... revoked pursuant to this section may apply to the commission [secretary of state] for reinstatement within two years ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-11-12(B), (D)
Dissolution, administrative
... the limited liability company has failed for a period of thirty days, after change of its registered office or registered agent, to file in the office of the commission [secretary of state] a statement of the change as required by the Limited Liability Company Act.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-19-66.1
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... in this section when: [...] (2) the corporation has failed to appoint and maintain a registered agent in this state as required by the Business Corporation Act [Chapter 53, Articles 11 to 18 ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-17-17(A)(2)-(3)
Standing in court withdrawn
... A foreign limited liability company that transacts business in New Mexico without a valid registration shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200) per year or any part thereof during which business was transacted.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-19-53(A), (E)
Return to good standing, priced
incFACTS carries no verified figure for returning a New Mexico company to good standing at present. We have not requested one. A request would be above average.
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.