ND registered agent
Registered agent service in North Dakota, $37 per year, within tolerance
North Dakota 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 Dakota annual report, an average obligation
North Dakota 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
$50 per year. Average.
... annual report of a limited liability company or foreign limited ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. 10-32.1-92(25)
Annual report charge, corporation
$25 per year. Average.
... an annual report of a corporation or foreign corporation, twenty-five ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. 10-19.1-147(24)
Expectations set by North Dakota
Expectation
As set out in the North Dakota code:
... section 10-01.1-06 that serves in this state as the agent for service of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-01.1-02(2), (19), (32); § 10-19.1-15; § 10-32.1-16
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. When a domestic entity has been dissolved; c. If an entity that previously filed a registered agent filing with the secretary of state no longer has a registered agent; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-01.1-13(1), (3), (5)-(6); § 10-32.1-19(2)
Corrective action available to North Dakota
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 has failed to appoint and maintain a registered agent and registered office as provided in section 10-19.1-15... Upon expiration of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-146.1(1); § 10-32.1-90(1)
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... (1) The foreign corporation has failed to: (a) Appoint and maintain a registered agent and registered office as provided in section 10-19.1-138... Upon ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-146.1(2); § 10-32.1-90(2)
Additionally
... the secretary of state shall restore the certificate of incorporation or authority to good standing. Until restored to good standing, the secretary ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-146.1(3)
Return to good standing, priced
Charge to return to good standing
... a corporation, or the revocation of the certificate of authority ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-147(24)(a)(3); § 10-32.1-92(25)(a)(2); § 10-19.1-146(8)
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.