NY registered agent
Registered agent service in New York, $37 per year, within tolerance
New York 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 York annual report, an average obligation
New York 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
$9 per year. Average.
... filing a Biennial Statement for a business corporation ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://dos.ny.gov/faqs-corporations-business-entities
Annual report charge, corporation
$9 per year. Average.
... or amendment pursuant to section four hundred eight of this chapter with the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 104-A(r)
Expectations set by New York
Expectation
As set out in the New York code:
... The agent shall be a natural person who is a resident of or has a business address in this state or a domestic corporation or foreign corporation of any type or kind formed, or authorized to do business in this state, under this chapter or under any other statute of this state.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 305(a); N.Y. Ltd. Liab. Co. Law § 302(a)-(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
... (b) No domestic or foreign corporation may be formed or authorized to do business in this state under this chapter unless in its certificate of incorporation or application for authority it designates the secretary of state as such agent.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law §§ 304(a)-(b), 306(b); N.Y. Ltd. Liab. Co. Law § 303(a)
Corrective action available to New York
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.
Additionally
... for the designation by the corporation of the new address after the filing of a certificate of resignation for receipt of process with the secretary of state, its authority to do business in ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 306-A(b)-(c)
Penalty, civil
... on the records of the department of state sixty days after a notice of delinquency has been mailed... Such delinquency shall be removed from the records of the department of state upon the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 409(1)-(2)
Return to good standing, priced
incFACTS carries no verified figure for returning a New York 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.