SD registered agent
South Dakota. $19 a year. Final markdown.
South Dakota 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
If an entity that previously filed a registered agent filing with the secretary of state no longer has a registered agent, or 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 of the entity by name at its principal office in accordance with any applicable judicial rules and procedures. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 59-11-16
What South Dakota 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
The Office of the Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under § 47-1A-1421 to administratively dissolve a corporation if: ... (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)
Out-of-state: authority revoked
The Office of the Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under §§ 47-1A-1531 and 47-1A-1531.1 to revoke the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state if: ... (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)
Courthouse: closed to you
... certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until it obtains a certificate of authority.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1502
Penalty, priced
A foreign corporation is liable for a civil penalty of one hundred dollars 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 authority. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1502.2
Additional
... to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under §§ 47-1A-1405 and 47-1A-1405.1 ... The administrative dissolution of a corporation does not terminate the authority of its registered agent.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1421
The South Dakota annual report. Also reduced.
South Dakota bills every company yearly to stay on the books. The bill is below. Leaving it on the shelf is a saving, in our sense of the word.
Yearly, LLC
$55 a year. Marked.
... dollars, due and payable with the filing of each annual report.
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/47-34A-212
Yearly, corporation
$55 a year. Marked.
(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)
What the tag says in South Dakota
The tag
Straight off the South Dakota code:
A registered agent filing must state: (1) The name of the represented entity's commercial registered agent; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 59-11-6
The price to come back
The price to come back
... hundred dollars, plus any delinquent annual report filing fees and associated penalty fees for the period before the reinstatement application;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-122(17)
The price to come back
... annual report and a fee for application of reinstatement in the amount of one hundred fifty dollars.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-34A-811(a)
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.