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.
... reporting fee of fifty-five dollars, due and payable with the ...
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:
... registered agent: (a) The name and address of the entity's noncommercial registered agent; or (b) The title of ...
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
... receipt requested, addressed to the governors of the entity by name at its principal office in accordance with any applicable judicial rules and procedures. ... Service is perfected ...
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
... (3) The corporation is without a registered agent in this state for sixty days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1420(3)-(4)
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... (3) The foreign corporation is without a registered agent in this state for sixty days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1530(3)-(4)
Standing in court withdrawn
... in this state without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1502
Penalty, civil
... for each day, but not to exceed a total of one thousand dollars for each year, it transacts business in this state without a certificate of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1502.2
Additionally
... any business except that necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs ...
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 period before the reinstatement ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-122(17)
Charge to return to good standing
... shall charge filing fees for any delinquent annual report and a fee for application of reinstatement in the amount of one hundred ...
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.