WY registered agent
Wyoming, $32 a year, beneath the rock
The word for Wyoming, read from the front. The yearly charge is the first lesson because it is the one nobody wants to hear. Then the state's judgments, the statute and the rest, in the state's own words. Ours are the sermon between them, kept short.
The Wyoming yearly charge, first, because it is the hardest word
Every year Wyoming sends a bill to keep the company on the books. This is the bill. Withholding it is a saving, in the way we are a saving, and the reckoning comes on the same schedule for both.
Yearly charge, LLC
$60 each year, and the tower takes no offering.
... its capital, property and assets reported, of sixty dollars ($60.00) ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W.S. 17-29-209(a)
Yearly charge, corporation
$60 each year, and the tower takes no offering.
... its capital, property and assets reported, of sixty dollars ($60.00) ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W.S. 17-16-1630(a)
The state's judgments when the agent is out
The remedies as the code pronounces them. We have added nothing. The state needs no help with judgment.
Cast out by the state
... 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)
Cast out by the state
... it shall be deemed to be transacting business within this state without authority and to have forfeited any franchises, rights or privileges ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-29-705(a)
Out-of-state company: authority revoked
... 17-28-102 or 17-28-103 that its registered agent or registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1530(a)(iii)-(iv)
Also written
... appointed, the secretary of state shall classify the entity as delinquent awaiting ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-103(f)
Barred from the courthouse
... state without a certificate 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
... percent (18%), which would have been imposed by law upon such corporation had it duly applied for and received a certificate of authority ... and in addition shall ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(d)
What the state requires of an agent
The commandment
Thus saith the Wyoming code:
... registered office and which has a written agreement creating an agency relationship ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-101(a)-(b)
Where we stand on this
Beneath the tower, in its shadow, which is where most of the service happens.
The price of redemption
The price of redemption
... to maintain a registered agent, include payment of a two hundred fifty dollar ($250.00) reinstatement fee and ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1422(a)(v)
Where the lawsuit goes when nobody answers
Served on the state instead
... 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 entity ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-104(b); § 17-28-103(e)
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 spirit moves, and it rarely does.
The tower, and the country it looks down on
The tower has stood over this corner of the state since before anyone was around to charge for it. These are the places within its gaze, and a few beyond, photographed by the faithful.
Devils Tower
Twelve hundred feet of stone that rose out of the ground and stayed. It asks nothing. We ask thirty-two dollars. One of us has the moral high ground and it is the rock.
Photo: U.S. Geological Survey, public domain.
the prairie dog town
A congregation at the foot of the tower, each on its own mound, each certain the others are wrong. We recognize the model.
Photo: National Park Service, public domain.
the Vore Buffalo Jump
A sinkhole full of bones, where the herds were driven for three hundred years. A reminder that the cliff does not explain itself either.
Photo: Library of Congress, public domain.
the Lamar Valley
The hills going gold at sunset, which they do for free every evening. We note the competition.
Photo: National Park Service, public domain.
the Alcova fossil beds
Red ledges full of things that were alive before there were fees. They paid nothing and are still here. Consider it.
Photo: Bureau of Land Management, public domain.