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
... the entity at its principal office. ... [§ 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 ...
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.
... sum of its capital, property and assets reported, of sixty dollars ($60.00) or two-tenths ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W.S. 17-29-209(a)
Yearly charge, corporation
$60 each year, flat rate, flat ground.
... sum of its capital, property and assets reported, of sixty dollars ($60.00) or two-tenths ...
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 corporation does not notify the secretary of state within thirty (30) days that its registered agent or registered office has been changed, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1420(a)(iii)-(iv)
Struck off, from a distance
... agent or registered office in this state for any reason, it shall be deemed to be transacting business ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-29-705(a)
Out-of-state company: authority pulled
... inform the secretary of state under W.S. 17-28-102 or 17-28-103 that its registered agent or registered office has changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1530(a)(iii)-(iv)
Also on the section
... no successor is appointed, the secretary of state shall classify the entity as delinquent awaiting administrative dissolution, revocation or forfeiture of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-103(f)
Courthouse out of range
... in this state without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until it ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(a)
Fine, per the code
... and license taxes, plus interest of eighteen percent (18%), which would have been imposed by law upon such ...
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:
... business entity whose business office is identical with the registered office and which has a written agreement ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-101(a)-(b)
The fee to come back in
The fee to come back
... for failure to maintain a registered agent, include payment of a two hundred ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.