OR registered agent
Oregon registered agent service, $2.50 a year
Oregon requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Oregon law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Oregon requires of a registered agent
The requirement
A corporation must continuously maintain a registered agent and registered office at a physical street address where process can be personally served; the registered office may NOT be a commercial mail receiving agency, mail forwarding business, or virtual office. The agent must be (a) an Oregon-resident individual whose business office is identical to the registered office, (b) a domestic corporation, LLC, professional corporation, or nonprofit corporation with an identical business office, or (c) an authorized foreign equivalent with an identical business office. Parallel LLC provision at ORS 63.111.
A corporation shall continuously maintain in this state a registered agent and registered office ... The registered office must be located at a physical street address where process may be personally served on the registered agent. The registered office may not be a commercial mail receiving agency, a mail forwarding business or a virtual office. (2) A registered agent must be: (a) An individual who resides in this state and whose business office is identical to the registered office; (b) A domestic corporation, domestic limited liability company ... or (c) A foreign corporation ... authorized to transact business in this state, the business office of which is identical to the registered office.
Source: state statute, via FACTS: ORS 60.111
How we comply
We don't.
What Oregon does to your company when we don't
Here is what the state does to an entity that has no agent, or whose agent is us.
Administrative dissolution
Being without a registered agent or registered office, or failing to notify the Secretary of State of an agent/office change, resignation, or discontinuance, is a ground for administrative dissolution; the corporation gets written notice and 45 days to cure before the Secretary dissolves it (ORS 60.651(2)). LLC parallel at ORS 63.647.
The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under ORS 60.651 to administratively dissolve a corporation if: ... (4) The corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state; (5) The corporation does not notify the Secretary of State that the corporation's registered agent or registered office has changed, that the registered agent has resigned or that the registered office has been discontinued;
Source: state statute, via FACTS: ORS 60.647(4)-(5)
Revocation (foreign entities)
Failure to appoint or maintain a registered agent or registered office, or failure to inform the Secretary of State of agent/office changes under ORS 60.724 or 60.727, is a ground for revoking a foreign corporation's authority to transact business in Oregon.
The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under ORS 60.741 to revoke the authority of a foreign corporation to transact business in this state if: ... (4) The foreign corporation has failed to appoint or maintain a registered agent or registered office in this state as prescribed by this chapter;
Source: state statute, via FACTS: ORS 60.737(4)-(5)
And also
An administratively dissolved corporation continues to exist but may not carry on any activities except winding up; it may apply for reinstatement within five years of dissolution, and reinstatement relates back as if dissolution never occurred. No reinstatement fee amount is stated in the chapter.
A corporation administratively dissolved continues the corporation's corporate existence but may not carry on any activities except activities that are necessary or appropriate to wind up and liquidate the corporation's business and affairs ... A corporation that the Secretary of State administratively dissolved under ORS 60.651 may apply to the Secretary of State for reinstatement within five years from the date of dissolution.
Source: state statute, via FACTS: ORS 60.651(3); ORS 60.654(1), (3)
The bill to come back
We couldn't be bothered to look this up. FACTS carries no human-verified reinstatement fee for Oregon in the registered agent dataset, and we are not the kind of company that checks.
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
The Secretary of State becomes the corporation's agent for service whenever it fails to appoint or maintain a registered agent, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the registered office; the serving party must also mail copies to the corporation's last registered office and to an address reasonably likely to give actual notice, and file proof with the court. LLC parallel at ORS 63.121.
The Secretary of State shall be an agent of a corporation including a dissolved corporation upon whom any such process, notice or demand may be served whenever the corporation fails to appoint or maintain a registered agent in this state or whenever the corporation's registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the registered office.
Source: state statute, via FACTS: ORS 60.121(2)-(3)
Statutory text as captured by FACTS (retrieved 2026-08-01, verified word-for-word against the state code 2026-08-10). Laws change. The statute governs; this page does not.