OH registered agent
Ohio. $19 a year. Final markdown.
Ohio makes every company on its books name a registered agent with a street address in the state. What the state wants is quoted below. What we supply comes after it. Short section.
Lawsuits, rerouted
Service, rerouted
... by delivering to the secretary of state or at the secretary of state's office quadruplicate copies of such process, notice, or demand and by paying to the secretary of state a fee of five dollars.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(H); § 1706.09(H)(2); § 1703.19
What Ohio charges when the agent is us
The state's remedies for a company whose agent does not answer. Quoted. Priced by the state, not by us.
Pulled from the shelf by the state
... of state grants, upon the expiration of that period of time from the date of the mailing, the articles of the corporation shall be canceled without further notice or action by the secretary of state.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(M); § 1706.09(L)
Out-of-state: authority revoked
...or has failed, after the death or resignation of its designated agent or the designated agent's removal from this state, to designate another agent as required by section 1703.041 of the Revised Code, the secretary of state shall give notice thereof by certified mail to the corporation. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1703.15
Courthouse: closed to you
...no foreign corporation that should have obtained such license shall maintain any action in any court until it has obtained such license. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1703.29(A), (C)
Penalty, priced
... without being so licensed, or when its license has expired or been canceled and has not been reinstated, shall forfeit not less than two hundred fifty dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1703.28
The Ohio annual report. Also reduced.
incFACTS has not verified the Ohio annual report fee. Tag missing. We did not reprint it.
What the tag says in Ohio
The tag
Straight off the Ohio code:
Every corporation shall have and maintain an agent, sometimes referred to as the "statutory agent," upon whom any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by statute to be served upon a corporation may be served. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(A), (C)(2); § 1706.09(A); § 1703.041(A)
The price to come back
The price to come back
... of state, an application for reinstatement and the required appointment of agent or required statement, and by paying the filing fee specified in division (Q) of section 111.16 of the Revised Code.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Ohio Rev. Code § 1701.07(M); § 1706.09(L); § 1703.15
What we supply
Nothing. Marked down from nothing.
Statute text captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01, checked against the code on 2026-08-10. Codes change. Tags do not.