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:
... (18) years of age, resides in this state and whose business office is identical ...
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.
... fee based upon the sum of its capital, property and assets reported, of sixty dollars ($60.00) or two-tenths of one ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W.S. 17-29-209(a)
Yearly charge on a corporation
$60 each year, wind or no wind.
... tax based upon the sum of its capital, property and assets reported, of sixty dollars ($60.00) or two-tenths of one ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W.S. 17-16-1630(a)
Where the lawsuit goes when nobody is home
Served somewhere else
... reasonable diligence be served, the entity may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed ...
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
... the corporation was administratively dissolved for failure to maintain a registered agent, include payment of a two hundred fifty dollar ($250.00) reinstatement fee and payment of any fees and taxes ...
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
... registered agent or registered office in this state; (iv) The corporation does not notify the secretary of state within thirty (30) days that its ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1420(a)(iii)-(iv)
Struck from the rolls by the state
... the limited liability company has not replaced its registered agent and registered office, or the limited liability company is without a registered agent ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-29-705(a)
Authority pulled, out-of-state companies
... or registered office in this state; (iv) The foreign corporation does not inform the secretary ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1530(a)(iii)-(iv)
Further down the page
... by a registered agent where no successor is appointed, the secretary of state shall ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-103(f)
Locked out of the courthouse
... corporation transacting business in this state without a certificate of authority may ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(a)
The penalty, in dollars
... it transacted business in this state without a certificate of authority, in ...
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.