WY registered agent

Wyoming, $33 a year, from up here

This is Wyoming. Most of it is below us. The state wrote the parts that matter and wrote them carefully, down there, where the desks are. Our parts are short. There is not much air for long ones.

The courthouse. Where papers go when they cannot get up here.

Served on the state instead, at ground level

... and no successor is appointed, service of process on the business entity ...

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

Where we are

Up. A fair way. The address is below. We can see roughly where.

The yearly bill, Wyoming

A bill comes every year. It keeps the company on the books. The amount is below. Skip it and the money stays with you a while. Then the state notices. It is a long way down for a bill, and it takes a while.

Yearly charge, LLC

$60. Yearly. It does not climb.

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

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

Yearly charge, corporation

$60. Yearly. It does not climb.

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

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

The rule. It is down there too.

The rule

Wyoming code. As written. We did not change a word. We did not have the energy:

... providing for acceptance of service of process as provided in W.S. 17-28-104; ...

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

What the state does, eventually

Code text. Unchanged. It reads the same at any altitude.

Taken off the books, a long way below us

... (30) days that its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered office ...

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

Taken off the books, a long way below us

... forfeited any franchises, rights or privileges acquired under the laws thereof ... Unless compliance is made within sixty (60) days ... the limited liability company shall be deemed defunct and to ...

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

Out-of-state company: authority withdrawn

... registered office has changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered ...

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

Also in the code, somewhere

... shall classify the entity as delinquent awaiting administrative dissolution, revocation or forfeiture of its articles of organization ...

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

Courthouse door shut, down there

... of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this ...

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

Fine, per the code

... it duly applied for and received a certificate of authority ... and in addition shall be liable for a penalty in the amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), reasonable audit expenses and ...

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

The fee to come back down

... include payment of a two hundred fifty dollar ($250.00) reinstatement fee and payment of ...

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

incFACTS. Captured 2026-08-01. Checked against Wyoming code 2026-08-10. The legislature meets and the code moves. We notice from up here, later, when the light changes.

Things at about our altitude

The office is roughly where the sky is. These are the parts of the state that come closest to it, photographed by people who went up and, unlike us, came back down.