RI registered agent
Registered agent service in Rhode Island, $37 per year, within tolerance
Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island annual report, an average obligation
Rhode Island 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.
For filing an annual report, a fee of fifty dollars ($50.00)
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-16-65(13)
Annual report charge, corporation
$50 per year. Average.
An annual report, fifty dollars ($50.00)
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-1602
Expectations set by Rhode Island
Expectation
As set out in the Rhode Island code:
... a domestic limited partnership, a domestic limited liability partnership, a domestic limited liability company; or (iii) A ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-501(a); § 7-16-11(a) (LLC)
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
... at the registered office, then the secretary of state is an agent of the corporation upon whom any process, notice, or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-503(b); § 7-16-11(e) (LLC)
Corrective action available to Rhode Island
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
... this state as required by this chapter; or (5) The corporation has failed, after ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-1310(a)(4)-(5)
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... (2) The corporation fails to appoint and maintain a registered agent in this state as required by this chapter; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-1414(a)(2)-(3)
Dissolution, administrative
... resident agent in this state as required by this chapter; (5) The limited liability company has failed, after change of its resident agent, to file in the office of the secretary of state ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-16-41(a)(4)-(5)
Penalty, civil
... that corporation without the registered agent's authority, is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, may be punished by a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-501(b)
Return to good standing, priced
Charge to return to good standing
... corporation, whether domestic or foreign, a penalty in the amount ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-1.2-1602(b)(1); § 7-1.2-1312(a); § 7-16-43(a)(2) (LLC)
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.