OH registered agent
Registered agent service in Ohio, $37 per year, within tolerance
Ohio 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 Ohio annual report, an average obligation
incFACTS has not verified an annual report fee for Ohio. We have not followed up. Following up is an above-average activity.
Expectations set by Ohio
Expectation
As set out in the Ohio code:
... (2) A domestic or foreign corporation, nonprofit corporation, limited liability company, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, limited partnership association, professional association, business trust, or unincorporated nonprofit association that has a business address in this state.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(A), (C)(2); § 1706.09(A); § 1703.041(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
... party... shall have filed with the secretary of state an affidavit stating that one of the foregoing conditions exists... then service of process, notice, or demand upon the secretary of state, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(H); § 1706.09(H)(2); § 1703.19
Corrective action available to Ohio
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
... shall give notice thereof... Unless the default is cured within thirty days after the mailing by the secretary of state of the notice or within any further period of time that the secretary of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(M); § 1706.09(L)
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... Unless that failure is cured within thirty days... the secretary of state, upon the expiration of such period, shall cancel the license of the foreign corporation to transact business in this state...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1703.15
Standing in court withdrawn
... Before any such corporation shall maintain such action on any cause of action arising at the time when it was not licensed to transact business in this state, it shall pay to the secretary of state a forfeiture of two hundred fifty dollars...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1703.29(A), (C)
Penalty, civil
... 1703.01 to 1703.31, inclusive, of the Revised Code, which transacts business in this state without being so licensed, or when its license has expired or been canceled and has not been reinstated, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1703.28
Return to good standing, priced
Charge to return to good standing
... by filing, within two years of the cancellation, on a form prescribed by the secretary of state, an application for reinstatement and the required appointment of agent or required statement, and ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(M); § 1706.09(L); § 1703.15
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.