SD registered agent
Registered agent service in South Dakota, $37 per year, within tolerance
South 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 South Dakota annual report, an average obligation
South 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
$55 per year. Average.
... fee of fifty-five dollars, due and payable with the filing ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/47-34A-212
Annual report charge, corporation
$55 per year. Average.
(25) Annual report, fifty-five dollars;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL 47-1A-122(25) (as amended by SL 2025 ch. 189 s. 1)
Expectations set by South Dakota
Expectation
As set out in the South Dakota code:
... or (b) The title of an office or other position with the entity if service of process is to be sent to the person holding that office or position, and the address of the business office of that person.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 59-11-6
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
... Service is perfected under this section at the earliest of: (1) The date the entity receives the mail; (2) The date shown on the return receipt, if signed on behalf of the entity; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 59-11-16
Corrective action available to South 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
... (4) The corporation does not notify the Office of the Secretary of State within sixty days that its registered agent has been changed or that its registered agent has resigned...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1420(3)-(4)
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... (4) The foreign corporation does not inform the secretary of state by an appropriate filing that its registered agent has changed or that its registered agent has resigned within sixty days of the change or resignation;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1530(3)-(4)
Standing in court withdrawn
... business in this state without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1502
Penalty, civil
... The attorney general may collect all penalties due under this section.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1502.2
Additionally
... corporate existence but may not carry on any business except that necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under §§ 47-1A-1405 and 47-1A-1405.1 ... The administrative ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1421
Return to good standing, priced
Charge to return to good standing
... following administrative dissolution, three hundred dollars, plus any delinquent annual report filing fees and associated penalty fees for the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-122(17)
Charge to return to good standing
... charge filing fees for any delinquent annual report and a fee for application of reinstatement in the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-34A-811(a)
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.