WY registered agent
Wyoming, $44 a year, as it was written
Here begins the account of Wyoming. The rule is given first, then what befalls those who break it, then the yearly charge, then where the papers go when the office is empty, then where the office stands, then the fee to be restored. The state wrote the long parts and we have not touched them. Touching them was never ours to do.
The rule, as the state set it down
The rule itself
From the Wyoming code, verbatim, without ornament, which is the only way a code may be quoted:
... 17-28-104; (C) A foreign business entity authorized to transact business in this state whose business office is identical with the registered office ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-101(a)-(b)
What befalls the company
The state's own words, in the order the state wrote them. We have added no warning to them. They arrive with their own.
The company struck from the books
... registered office has been changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1420(a)(iii)-(iv)
The company struck from the books
... Unless compliance is made within sixty (60) days ... the limited liability company shall be deemed defunct and to have forfeited its articles of organization
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-29-705(a)
Out-of-state company: its authority withdrawn
... agent has resigned, or that its registered office has been discontinued within thirty (30) days of the change, resignation or discontinuance;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1530(a)(iii)-(iv)
Also set down in the code
... delinquent awaiting administrative dissolution, revocation or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-103(f)
The courthouse door closed to the company
... not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until it obtains a certificate ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(a)
The penalty, as the code sets it
... and in addition shall be liable for a penalty in the amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), reasonable audit expenses and reasonable attorney fees.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(d)
The yearly charge in Wyoming
Each year the state asks a sum to keep the company on its books. The sum is set down below. A company may decline to pay it, and the consequence is set down above, and between the two lies the whole of what the state means by a company.
The yearly charge upon an LLC
$60, each year, as the state has set it down.
... of sixty dollars ($60.00) or two-tenths of one mill on the dollar ($.0002), whichever is greater
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W.S. 17-29-209(a)
The yearly charge upon a corporation
$60, each year, as the state has set it down.
... of sixty dollars ($60.00) or two-tenths of one mill on the dollar ($.0002), whichever is greater
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W.S. 17-16-1630(a)
Where the papers go when nobody answers
The papers served upon the state in our place
... the business entity shall be upon the secretary of state until a new appointment is made ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-104(b); § 17-28-103(e)
Where the office stands
At the address on the form, which the state has, and which is enough for the state, and therefore enough for the chronicle. Whether anyone stands in it is a separate question, and the chronicle has been asked it before.
The fee to be restored
The fee to be restored
... two hundred fifty dollar ($250.00) reinstatement fee and payment of any fees and taxes ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1422(a)(v)
Recorded from incFACTS, captured 2026-08-01, checked against the Wyoming code 2026-08-10. Legislatures convene and the code is amended. When the code moves, this page moves after it, at the pace of a chronicle, which is slow.
The places along the road, as they were recorded
The emigrant road crossed this state a century and a half ago, and the people on it carved their names into the rock so that someone would know they had passed. We understand the impulse. These are the places they marked, photographed by an agency that stayed.
Independence Rock
A granite dome on the Sweetwater, where the wagon trains meant to arrive by the fourth of July or accept what the mountains would do to them. Thousands of names are cut into it. The rock has kept every one and has never answered any.
Photo: National Park Service, public domain.
South Pass
The low crossing of the continental divide, so gentle that the wagons crossed it without knowing the moment. Everything that came west came through here. It is a door with no frame and nobody at it, which is a description we recognise.
Photo: National Archives, public domain.
Fort Laramie
The post where the road met the river and the treaties were signed and, in time, unsigned. The barracks still stand in their rows, empty and swept, an office that held every arrival and kept none of them.
Photo: Library of Congress, public domain.
the Oregon Trail ruts
Wheel tracks worn five feet into the sandstone by wagons that did not stop to consider what they were leaving. The road is gone. The groove remains. It is the most permanent record in the state, and it was made by people who never intended to make one.
Photo: Bureau of Land Management, public domain.
Devil's Gate
A cleft in the granite that the wagons went around, not through. The record notes that most things go around us too. The record is kept regardless.
Photo: National Park Service, public domain.
$85 a year remains with you. It was always going to. That much was written.
Or first read the chronicle page, where the record of your arrival is kept.