WY registered agent

Wyoming, $4 a year, current position unknown

One state and one page, in the order the wind arranged them. Where we stand comes first, because it is the shortest section. Then what the state does about an agent that is gone, and the rest in the state's words.

Where we stand on this

Against a fence, somewhere east of where we were.

What the state does when the agent has rolled on

The remedies, in the code's own words. We have added nothing to them, and nothing is what we carry.

Blown off the books

... (iv) The corporation does not notify the secretary of state within thirty (30) days that its registered agent or registered office has ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1420(a)(iii)-(iv)

Blown off the books

... without a registered agent or registered office in this state for any reason, it shall be deemed to be transacting business within ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-29-705(a)

Out-of-state company: authority gone with the wind

... not inform the secretary of state under W.S. 17-28-102 or 17-28-103 that its registered agent or ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1530(a)(iii)-(iv)

Also in the code

... where no successor is appointed, the secretary of state shall classify the entity as delinquent awaiting administrative dissolution, revocation or forfeiture of its articles of organization as ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-103(f)

Kept out of the courthouse

... in this state without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(a)

Fine, per the code

... all fees and license taxes, plus interest of eighteen percent (18%), which would have ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(d)

Where the lawsuit goes when the agent has left

Served on the state instead

... addressed to the entity at its principal office. ... [§ 17-28-103(e)] If an agency appointment is terminated under the provisions of this section and no ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-104(b); § 17-28-103(e)

What the state asks of an agent

The rule

The Wyoming rule, which does not move:

... (B) A domestic business entity whose business office is identical with the registered office and which has a written agreement creating an agency relationship ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-101(a)-(b)

What it costs to roll back in

The cost of rolling back

... dissolved for failure to maintain a registered agent, include payment of a two hundred fifty dollar ($250.00) reinstatement fee and payment ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1422(a)(v)

The Wyoming yearly charge, last

Every year Wyoming sends a bill to keep the company on the books. This is it. Not paying it is a saving, the way we are a saving, and it ends the same way, against a fence.

Yearly charge, LLC

$60 each year, calm or not.

... the sum of its capital, 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, corporation

$60 each year, calm or not.

... the sum of its capital, 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)

The text on this page was captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and read against the Wyoming code on 2026-08-10. The code changes when the legislature meets. This page changes with the weather.

Places we have blown through

A tumbleweed sees a lot of the state and none of it on purpose. These are places the wind has taken us, or would, with a photograph from someone who stopped.

Bison grazing the open grass of the Hayden Valley.

the Hayden Valley

Bison on open grass, going nowhere at a steady pace. We admire the pace and cannot match the going nowhere.

Photo: National Park Service, public domain.

The Lower Falls of the Yellowstone seen from Artist Point, the canyon walls yellow and white.

the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone

Three hundred feet of river deciding to leave all at once. Our forwarding policy, with better scenery.

Photo: National Park Service, public domain.

The chalk face of Register Cliff carved with the names of emigrants.

Register Cliff

Emigrants carved their names in the chalk on the way through. We were on the way through too. We did not stop to carve.

Photo: National Park Service, public domain.

Three wild horses on the dry range at the foot of the Pryor Mountains.

the Pryor Mountain wild horses

Three horses on dry range with nowhere to be. Colleagues, in the loose sense.

Photo: Bureau of Land Management, public domain.

The Firehole River running fast between the dark walls of Firehole Canyon.

the Firehole River

Fast water between dark walls, warm from the springs. It also goes wherever the ground tilts, and charges nothing.

Photo: National Park Service, public domain.

$125 a year stays in your pocket, which is more than can be said for your hat.

Or roll on to the drift page first.