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Wyoming, $28 a year, standing in the road
Everything Wyoming has to say, read from the middle of the road at the speed of a bison, which is the speed of this page. First where we are standing, since that never changes. Then the fee to get back on the books, the yearly bill, the rule, the remedies and the courthouse business, each one the state talking. We mostly stand there.
Where we stand on this
In the road. Not moving.
The fee to get back on the books
The fee to get back on
... failure to maintain a registered agent, include payment of a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1422(a)(v)
The Wyoming yearly charge
Once a year a bill comes from Wyoming for keeping the company on the books, and the amount is printed here. Leave it unpaid and you have saved money for about as long as a car waits behind a bison before it turns around.
Yearly charge, LLC
$60 each year, whether or not the herd moves.
... sum of its capital, property and assets reported, 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)
Yearly charge, corporation
$60 each year, whether or not the herd moves.
... sum of its capital, property and assets reported, 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 lawsuit goes when the agent stands there
Served on the state instead
... principal office. ... [§ 17-28-103(e)] If an agency appointment is terminated under the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-104(b); § 17-28-103(e)
What the state asks of an agent
The rule
The Wyoming code says the following, and we have stood in front of it long enough to be sure:
... business office is identical with the registered office and which has a written agreement creating an agency relationship with an individual providing for acceptance of service of process ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-101(a)-(b)
What the state does when the agent will not come to the door
The remedies, in the code's words. We have added nothing to them. Adding things takes movement.
Struck off, from behind
... does not notify the secretary of state within thirty (30) days that ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1420(a)(iii)-(iv)
Struck off, from behind
... in this state for any reason, it shall be deemed to be transacting business within this state without authority and to have ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-29-705(a)
Out-of-state company: authority pulled
... 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 its registered office ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1530(a)(iii)-(iv)
Also in the code
... successor is appointed, the secretary of state shall classify the entity as delinquent awaiting administrative dissolution, revocation or forfeiture ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-103(f)
Courthouse out of reach
... this state without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(a)
Fine, per the code
... plus interest of eighteen percent (18%), which would have been imposed by law upon such corporation had it ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(d)
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 the herd does, which is spring.
Where the herd stands
The herd goes where it goes and stops where it stops, and the road is usually where it stops. These are places it has stopped, photographed by people who waited.
the Norris Geyser Basin
Bison crossing thermal ground that would cook anything lighter. They do not hurry there either. We admire the consistency.
Photo: National Park Service, public domain.
the Fountain Paint Pot
A herd among dead trees by the mud pots, standing in steam because the steam is warm and the herd is not in a hurry.
Photo: National Park Service, public domain.
the Mud Volcano
Gray slurry, steam and a boardwalk for the people who come to see it. The boardwalk goes around the mud. The road does not go around us.
Photo: National Park Service, public domain.
the West Thumb Geyser Basin
The lake from the hot springs on its west shore, with a smoke plume rising far off. Something is burning. The herd will look into it later.
Photo: National Park Service, public domain.
Lewis Falls
A river in winter, the rocks capped with snow, water still going somewhere. It does not wait for anything. We wait for nothing and go nowhere. Different philosophies.
Photo: National Park Service, public domain.