SD registered agent
South Dakota. $1 a year.
South Dakota law requires a registered agent. The text is below. Read it or do not.
what South Dakota does about it
The state's remedies, quoted. No commentary.
dissolution
... § 47-1A-1421 to administratively dissolve a corporation if: ... (3) The corporation is without a registered agent in this state for sixty days or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1420(3)-(4)
revocation
... certificate of authority of a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1530(3)-(4)
no court
... corporation transacting business in this state without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until it obtains a certificate ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1502
fine
... 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 ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1502.2
also
... existence but may not carry on any business except that necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under §§ 47-1A-1405 ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-1421
the rule
rule
South Dakota says:
... or (2) If the entity does not have a commercial registered agent: (a) The name and address of the entity's noncommercial registered agent; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 59-11-6
the lawsuit
service
... cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the entity may be served by registered or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 59-11-16
coming back
reinstatement
... for reinstatement following administrative dissolution, three hundred dollars, plus any delinquent annual report filing fees and associated penalty fees for the period before the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-1A-122(17)
reinstatement
... of state shall charge filing fees for any delinquent annual report and a fee for application of reinstatement in the amount of one ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: SDCL § 47-34A-811(a)
compliance
No.
the annual report
South Dakota charges this every year. Do not pay it and keep the money. The rest of this page is what happens next.
annual report, llc
$55. Yearly.
... A reporting 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, corporation
$55. Yearly.
(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)
incFACTS captured this 2026-08-01 and verified it 2026-08-10. It may have changed. We would not know.