NM registered agent
New Mexico registered agent service, $3.50 a year
New Mexico requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what New Mexico law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What New Mexico requires of a registered agent
The requirement
A NM corporation must continuously maintain a registered office and a registered agent who is either an individual resident of New Mexico whose business office is identical with the registered office, or a domestic corporation or authorized foreign corporation with a business office identical with the registered office. The LLC Act is slightly broader: an individual NM resident, or a domestic corporation, LLC, or partnership with a NM place of business identical to the registered office, or an authorized foreign corporation, LLC, or partnership with such a place of business (NMSA 53-19-5(A)(2)).
Each corporation shall have and continuously maintain in this state: A. a registered office which may be, but need not be, the same as its place of business; and B. a registered agent, which agent may be either an individual resident in this state whose business office is identical with the registered office, or a domestic corporation, or a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state, having a business office identical with the registered office.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-11-11; NMSA 1978, 53-19-5(A)
How we comply
We don't.
What New Mexico 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
A corporation that fails for 30 days to appoint and maintain a registered agent (or to file a change statement within 30 days) is notified of delinquency; if not corrected within 60 days of the letter, the secretary of state issues a certificate of revocation. Reinstatement is available only within two years of revocation.
If a corporation fails for a period of thirty days to file the corporate reports required pursuant to Section 53-5-2 NMSA 1978 or to appoint and maintain a registered agent in this state or has failed for thirty days after change of its registered office or registered agent to file in the office of the commission [secretary of state] a statement of the change, the commission [secretary of state] shall notify the corporation of its delinquency by letter to the corporation's principal office. If the delinquency is not corrected within sixty days from the date the letter is mailed, the commission [secretary of state] shall issue a certificate of revocation
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-11-12(A)-(B)
And also
The reinstatement window is limited: an administratively revoked corporation (or LLC, NMSA 53-19-66.2(A)) may apply for reinstatement only within two years after the effective date of revocation; reinstatement then relates back as if revocation never occurred.
A corporation administratively revoked pursuant to this section may apply to the commission [secretary of state] for reinstatement within two years after the effective date of revocation.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-11-12(B), (D)
Administrative dissolution
An LLC may be administratively revoked for failing for 30 days to appoint and maintain a registered agent, or failing for 30 days after a change to file the change statement; reinstatement within two years (53-19-66.2).
A limited liability company may be revoked by the commission [secretary of state] if: A. the limited liability company has failed for a period of thirty days to appoint and maintain a registered agent as required by the Limited Liability Company Act; or B. the limited liability company has failed for a period of thirty days, after change of its registered office or registered agent, to file in the office of the commission [secretary of state] a statement of the change as required by the Limited Liability Company Act.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-19-66.1
Revocation (foreign entities)
Failure to appoint and maintain a registered agent is an express ground for revoking a foreign corporation's certificate of authority (after not less than 60 days' mailed notice and failure to cure); on revocation, authority to transact business ceases, with a two-year reinstatement window (53-17-18(C)). The foreign LLC analog operates through registration cancellation/penalty provisions.
The certificate of authority of a foreign corporation to transact business in this state may be revoked by the commission [secretary of state] upon the conditions prescribed in this section when: [...] (2) the corporation has failed to appoint and maintain a registered agent in this state as required by the Business Corporation Act [Chapter 53, Articles 11 to 18 NMSA 1978]; (3) the corporation has failed, after change of its registered office or registered agent, to file in the office of the commission [secretary of state] a statement of the change as required by the Business Corporation Act;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-17-17(A)(2)-(3)
No access to the courts
A foreign LLC transacting business without registration cannot maintain an action in NM courts until registered, and is liable for back fees plus a civil penalty of up to $200 per year; the corporate analog is 53-17-20(A). Unregistered foreign LLCs also automatically appoint the secretary of state as agent for service (53-19-53(C)).
A. A foreign limited liability company transacting business in New Mexico may not maintain an action, suit or proceeding in a court of New Mexico until it has registered in New Mexico. ... E. A foreign limited liability company that transacts business in New Mexico without a valid registration shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200) per year or any part thereof during which business was transacted.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-19-53(A), (E)
The bill to come back
We couldn't be bothered to look this up. incFACTS carries no human-verified reinstatement fee for New Mexico in the registered agent dataset, and we are not the kind of company that checks.
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
We couldn't be bothered to look this up. New Mexico puts the fallback rules for serving an agentless company somewhere other than the entity code, and we stopped reading.
Statutory text as captured by incFACTS (retrieved 2026-08-01, verified word-for-word against the state code 2026-08-10). Laws change. The statute governs; this page does not.