UT registered agent
Registered agent service in Utah, $37 per year, within tolerance
Utah 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 Utah annual report, an average obligation
Utah 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
$18 per year. Average.
*Domestic/foreign limited liability company (LLC) $18
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: FY2026 Fee Schedule sec. 3 Renewal/Annual Report Filings
Annual report charge, corporation
$18 per year. Average.
*Domestic/foreign corporation $18
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: FY2026 Fee Schedule sec. 3 Renewal/Annual Report Filings
Expectations set by Utah
Expectation
As set out in the Utah code:
... an individual or a domestic or foreign entity that serves in this state as the agent for service of process of an ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-17-102(14); see also 16-17-202, 16-17-203(1), 48-3a-111(1)
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
... if its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the entity may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the governors ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-17-301(2)-(3)
Corrective action available to Utah
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 30 days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-10a-1420(3)-(4); procedure at 16-10a-1421
Dissolution, administrative
... (2) and (3) to dissolve a limited liability company administratively if the limited liability company does ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 48-3a-708(1)(c)
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... (3) the foreign corporation is without a registered agent in this state for 30 days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-10a-1530(3)-(4); procedure at 16-10a-1531
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... foreign limited liability company does not: ... (c) have a registered agent as required by Section 48-3a-111; or (d) deliver to the division for filing a statement of a change under Section ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 48-3a-910(1)(c)-(d)
Standing in court withdrawn
... without authority, or anyone in its behalf, may not maintain a proceeding ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-10a-1502(1); 48-3a-902(2)
Penalty, civil
... transacts business in this state without authority. However, the penalty ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 16-10a-1502(4)-(5)
Return to good standing, priced
Charge to return to good standing
... and penalties that were due to the division at the time of its administrative dissolution and all fees, taxes, interest, and penalties that would have been due to the division while ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Utah Code 48-3a-709(4); 16-10a-1422(1)(a)(vi)-(vii), (1)(b)
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.