WY registered agent
Wyoming registered agent, $22 a year, a long drive from the office
Wyoming asks every company on its rolls to keep a registered agent at a street address inside the state line. The long passages below are the state talking. The short ones are us.
How far we go
As far as the mailbox. It is at the end of the road.
What the state line requires
The line the state draws
Out of the Wyoming statutes, word for word:
(ii) A registered agent, who shall be: (A) An individual who is at least eighteen (18) years of age, resides in this state and whose business office is identical with the registered office; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-101(a)-(b)
The Wyoming yearly charge, which also blows over
Once a year Wyoming sends a bill to keep the company on its rolls. The figure is below. Letting it blow over saves the figure, for a while.
Yearly charge on an LLC
$60 each year, wind or no wind.
... property and assets reported, of sixty dollars ($60.00) or two-tenths of one mill on the dollar ($.0002), ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W.S. 17-29-209(a)
Yearly charge on a corporation
$60 each year, wind or no wind.
... property and assets reported, of sixty dollars ($60.00) or two-tenths of one mill on the dollar ($.0002), ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W.S. 17-16-1630(a)
Where the lawsuit goes when nobody is home
Served somewhere else
... [§ 17-28-103(e)] If an agency appointment is terminated under the provisions of this section and no successor is appointed, service of process on the business entity shall be upon the secretary of state until a new appointment is made or until the entity is administratively dissolved or revoked.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-104(b); § 17-28-103(e)
The bill to get the company back
The bill to get back on the rolls
... failure to maintain a registered agent, include payment of a two hundred fifty dollar ($250.00) reinstatement fee and payment of any fees and ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1422(a)(v)
When the state comes looking
What Wyoming does to a company whose agent is a gate on a gravel road. Quoted straight, with nothing from us in the middle.
Struck from the rolls by the state
... (iv) The corporation does not notify the secretary of state within thirty (30) days that its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered office has been discontinued;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1420(a)(iii)-(iv)
Struck from the rolls by the state
... be transacting business within this state without authority and to have forfeited any franchises, rights or privileges acquired under the laws thereof ... Unless compliance is made within sixty (60) ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-29-705(a)
Authority pulled, out-of-state companies
(iii) The foreign corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state; (iv) The foreign corporation does not inform the secretary of state under W.S. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1530(a)(iii)-(iv)
Further down the page
... is appointed, the secretary of state shall classify the entity as delinquent awaiting administrative dissolution, revocation or forfeiture of its articles of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-103(f)
Locked out of the courthouse
... state without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until it obtains a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(a)
The penalty, in dollars
... would have been imposed by law upon such corporation had it duly applied for and received a certificate of authority ... and in addition shall be liable for a penalty in the amount of five ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(d)
The quoted passages are the state code as captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and checked against the books on 2026-08-10. The code changes when the legislature meets. This page changes when the wind does.
Landmarks we are somewhere near
Wyoming is mostly distance with a few things standing up in it. We are a long drive from all of them, and each one has more to say about an unattended office than we do.
Devils Tower
A column of rock that stands there and does nothing, year after year, and people drive for hours to look at it. That is the model. Our office does the same with less traffic.
Photo: National Park Service, public domain.
Grand Teton
The peaks on our mark. Visible from a great distance, reached by almost nobody. The office is much the same, minus the view.
Photo: National Park Service, public domain.
Old Faithful
It goes off on a schedule and a crowd is waiting every time. We admire the reliability from a distance and have not adopted it. Nothing at our address goes off on a schedule.
Photo: National Park Service, public domain.
Independence Rock
Travelers carved their names into it and kept moving. That is the whole service: your name on a record, and everyone moving on. The rock does not check who signed.
Photo: U.S. National Archives, public domain.
The Bighorn Mountains
A range you can see for a full day before you reach it. Process servers report the same experience with our driveway.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, CC0 public domain dedication.
Fort Laramie
Built to receive people coming up the trail, and staffed, once. Now a preserved site where the doors stand open and the desks are empty, which is a level of service we can only look up to.
Photo: National Park Service, public domain.
The bison
They stand in the snow and do not move for anyone. We have adopted the policy. The difference is that the bison is where it says it is.
Photo: Yellowstone National Park, public domain.