NC registered agent
Registered agent service in North Carolina, $37 per year, within tolerance
North Carolina 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 North Carolina annual report, an average obligation
North Carolina 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
$200 per year. Average.
(28) Annual report $200.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. 57D-1-22(a)(28)
Expectations set by North Carolina
Expectation
As set out in the North Carolina code:
... An individual who resides in this State and whose business office is identical with the registered office; b. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55D-30(a)
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
... 55D-30 fails to appoint or maintain a registered agent in this State, or when its registered agent cannot with due diligence be found at the registered office, or when the Secretary of State revokes a certificate of authority or a statement of foreign registration of a foreign entity... the Secretary of State becomes an agent of the entity upon whom any such process, notice or demand may be served.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55D-33(b)
Corrective action available to North Carolina
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
... (4) The corporation does not notify the Secretary of State within 60 days that its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered office has been discontinued...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55-14-20(3)-(4); § 55-14-21(b); § 57D-6-06(a)(3)-(4)
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... 55-15-31 to revoke the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this State if: ... (3) The foreign corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this State for 60 days or more...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55-15-30(a)(3)-(4); § 55-15-31(d); § 57D-7-30(a)(3)-(4)
Additionally
... dissolution or revocation of registration as a limited liability partnership, the expiration of five years after the effective date of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55D-21(d)(2)
Return to good standing, priced
Charge to return to good standing
... 55-14-21 may apply to the Secretary of State for reinstatement... [Fee schedule:] (16) Application for reinstatement following administrative dissolution 100.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.C. Gen. Stat. § 55-14-22; § 55-1-22(a)(16)
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.