WY registered agent

Wyoming, $16 a year, straight ahead

Distances for Wyoming, nearest first. The rule about where a lawsuit goes when nobody is home leads, because it is the shortest trip. Then the yearly charge, the remedies and the rest, quoted from the code with the mileage left off.

Where the lawsuit goes when nobody is in range

Served on the state instead

... 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 ...

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

The Wyoming yearly charge

Every year Wyoming sends a bill to keep the company on the books. This is the bill. Not paying it is a saving, the way we are a saving, and it holds about as long as a straight road holds your attention.

Yearly charge, LLC

$60 each year, flat rate, flat ground.

... its capital, property and assets reported, of sixty dollars ($60.00) or two-tenths of one mill on the ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W.S. 17-29-209(a)

Yearly charge, corporation

$60 each year, flat rate, flat ground.

... its capital, property and assets reported, of sixty dollars ($60.00) or two-tenths of one mill on the ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W.S. 17-16-1630(a)

What the state does when the agent is out of range

The remedies, in the code's words, with no distance added. The distance is ours.

Struck off, from a distance

... the secretary of state within thirty (30) days that its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its ...

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

Struck off, from a distance

... deemed to be transacting business within this state without authority and to have forfeited ...

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

Out-of-state company: authority pulled

... 17-28-102 or 17-28-103 that its registered agent or registered office has changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its ...

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

Also on the section

... 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)

Courthouse out of range

... state without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until it obtains a certificate of authority.

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

Fine, per the code

... which 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 ...

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

What the state asks of an agent

The rule

Section and line, from the Wyoming code:

... and which has a written agreement creating an agency relationship with an individual providing for acceptance of service of process as provided ...

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

The fee to come back in

The fee to come back

... maintain a registered agent, include payment of a two hundred fifty dollar ...

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

Where we stand on that, measured

Eleven miles from the box. Farther from the desk.

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 when somebody makes the drive.

Things you can see from a long way off

On the prairie a landmark is anything taller than the grass. These are the ones people drove toward for days, photographed by people who got there.

Bison and pronghorn grazing together on the floor of the Lamar Valley.

the Lamar Valley

Bison and pronghorn on the same grass, neither in a hurry, both visible from a mile off. The valley is flat enough to count them from the road. We counted. Nobody was coming to the office.

Photo: National Park Service, public domain.

Pale dunes of the Killpecker sand field under a wide sky.

the Killpecker Sand Dunes

Sand that moves a little every day and has not arrived anywhere in ten thousand years. Consistency does that. We have it too, in the other direction.

Photo: Bureau of Land Management, public domain.

The fluted stone columns of Devils Tower, close up.

Devils Tower

The columns, close up, each one straight as a section line and going nowhere but up. It is the one thing out here that is exactly where it says.

Photo: National Park Service, public domain.

A pronghorn standing on the open plateau with grass to the horizon.

the pronghorn

The fastest thing on the prairie, standing still, watching. It can outrun a process server. So, in a sense, can we.

Photo: National Park Service, public domain.

Grass and low buttes across the Thunder Basin National Grassland.

the Thunder Basin grassland

Grass to every edge of the photograph and then past it. Somewhere in there is a section line, and on the section line is not our office.

Photo: U.S. Forest Service, public domain.

$113 a year stays in your pocket, which is closer than we are.

Or read the section-line page first.