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Wyoming, $41 a year, from the fence line
The lay of Wyoming from the saddle. Where the lawsuit goes when nobody is at the post comes first, because that is the gate most people ride through. Then the state's remedies, the yearly charge and the rest, in the state's own words. Ours are what a rancher says, which is little.
Where the lawsuit goes when nobody is at the post
Served on the state instead
... under the provisions of this section and no successor is appointed, service of process on the business entity shall be upon the secretary of state until a new appointment is made or until ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-104(b); § 17-28-103(e)
What the state does when the agent is out on the section
The remedies as the code sets them down. We have added nothing. Ranchers do not add to what the government says; they wait it out.
Struck off, and the gate left open
... state within thirty (30) days that its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1420(a)(iii)-(iv)
Struck off, and the gate left open
... state without authority and to have forfeited any franchises, rights or privileges acquired under ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-29-705(a)
Out-of-state outfit: authority pulled
... its registered agent or registered office has changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1530(a)(iii)-(iv)
Also in the code
... of state shall classify the entity as delinquent awaiting administrative dissolution, revocation ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-103(f)
Turned back at the courthouse gate
... a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(a)
Fine, per the code
... law upon such corporation had it duly applied for and received a certificate of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(d)
The Wyoming yearly charge
Every year Wyoming sends a bill to keep the company on the books. This is the bill. Not paying it is a saving, in the way we are a saving, and it lasts about one grazing season.
Yearly charge, LLC
$60 each year, drought or no drought.
... 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, drought or no drought.
... 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)
The price of buying back in
The price of buying back in
... registered agent, include payment of a two hundred fifty dollar ($250.00) ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1422(a)(v)
What the state asks of an agent
The rule
From the Wyoming code, which was written in town:
... creating an agency relationship with an individual providing for acceptance of service of process as provided in W.S. 17-28-104; (C) A foreign business entity authorized to transact business in ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-101(a)-(b)
Where the outfit stands on this
Out on the section, horseback. The fence is where it always was.
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 we ride the line, which is spring.
Ground worth riding out to
A ranch is measured in what you can see from the saddle. These are places on other people's ground, photographed by them, and better ground than ours.
the National Elk Refuge
Elk moving across the flats in winter, fed by the government and fenced by nobody. The best-run outfit in the valley and it does not charge.
Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, public domain.
the JO Ranch corrals
Log corrals and outbuildings, built to hold stock and now holding the weather. Ours hold less and cost forty-one.
Photo: Bureau of Land Management, public domain.
the Snake River bottoms
River bottomland in autumn, the best hay ground in the state and nobody is cutting it. We looked into leasing it. The park laughed.
Photo: National Park Service, public domain.
the Seminoe road
Open range along the byway, no fence in sight, which is how you know it is not ours.
Photo: Bureau of Land Management, public domain.
the JO Ranch
Weathered buildings on the open range, a working outfit once, kept now for the look of it. Our office has the look without the buildings.
Photo: Bureau of Land Management, public domain.