Analysis

After administrative dissolution: does the registered agent stay on the record?

A state administratively dissolves a domestic corporation or LLC (a missed annual reportAnnual reportThe recurring filing most states require to keep an entity's record current - officers, addresses, registered agent.Read the full entry →, no registered agent, an unpaid fee) or revokes a foreign one's authority, and the entity's registered agentRegistered agentThe person or company an entity must continuously maintain in a state to receive service of process and official mail.Read the full entry → is still named on the record. Whether that appointment and the agent's authority to receive service of processService of processFormal delivery of lawsuits and legal notices.Read the full entry → continue, end by operation of law, or go unaddressed is a question each statute answers in its own way - and the answer differs by entity class inside a single state. This page reads it across all 54 jurisdictions and four classes, cited to the legislature's own publication of the corporation, LLC and registered-agent acts. Each state's page carries the operative sentence, the state's own status words, the reinstatementReinstatementRestoring an entity the state revoked or administratively dissolved for missed filings - typically back-filing reports, paying accrued fees and penalties, and filing an application.Read the full entry → window and how an agent resigns after the state's action. What any provider does about such an appointment is its own policy; this page records the state rule only.

Every jurisdiction, by entity class

The entry is the verdict the cited section supports for that class; the jurisdiction page prints the sentence behind it. Statute is silent is a verifiedReview gateThis site's publication rule. Records climb unreviewed, then provisionally reviewed, then verified; public pages cite only verified records.Read the full entry → finding that no section speaks to the appointment, not a gap in the record. Nonprofit, LP, LLP and cooperative classes a state's acts resolve separately appear on its own page.

Not yet confirmed: Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, New Mexico, Tennessee, US Virgin Islands. These jurisdictions carry a research pass that has not cleared independent verification; nothing from it is printed.

48 of 54 jurisdiction records verified (2026-10-22). Companion facts in the same dataset - the state's status words, the grounds and notice period, whether the entity continues to exist for winding up, the reinstatement window and filing, and how the agent comes off the record - are on each jurisdiction page under After administrative dissolution or revocation.

incFACTS, "After administrative dissolution: does the registered agent stay on the record? Every US jurisdiction, by entity class," FACTS repository v0.10.18 (data as of 2026-10-25), https://www.incfacts.com/analysis/agent-authority-after-administrative-dissolution/ (accessed 2026-10-25).

incFACTS, After administrative dissolution: does the registered agent stay on the record? Every US jurisdiction, by entity class, https://www.incfacts.com/analysis/agent-authority-after-administrative-dissolution/ (last visited 2026-10-25).

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