North Dakota LLC Annual Report: File Before November 16

A New LLC’s First North Dakota Report Comes the Year After Its Articles

Under N.D.C.C. 10‑32.1‑89(3), nothing is due in the formation year: the first report goes in before November 16 of the next calendar year, counted from the effective date in the articles of organization of a new North Dakota LLC. Articles that took effect on December 29, 2025 mean a first report this fall, by Monday, November 16, 2026, less than eleven months later.

An LLC formed elsewhere counts from a different date: the year North Dakota issued its certificate of authority. The formation date in its home state plays no part, and the $50 fee is the same as for a domestic LLC.

The North Dakota Annual Report on FirstStop: Where to Start and What It Asks

The Secretary of State’s Maintain Registration page describes one route, the FirstStop Portal, and the only paper form it mentions is the one an authorized livestock farm LLC requests from the office. It says nothing either way about mailing a standard LLC’s report, so the annual report requirements below follow the online filing.

1. Open “File annual report”It sits under Business on the FirstStop home page, next to Login and the NDLogin FAQs.
2. Check every fieldThe report shows what the record holds; update what changed since the last filing.
3. Pay and keep the receipt$50 before the deadline, $100 after it, with the late charge added.

Legal name and home state

The name on the record, with its state or country of origin.

Registered agent and office

The North Dakota agent and its address. Notices about the report, Not Good Standing and termination are mailed there.

Principal executive office address

Always a street address: that of an elected or appointed president or governor, or the address of the registered agent’s office when no one fits.

Mailing address

Where the LLC receives mail. It can be a post office box and can differ from the other two.

Business activity

A short description of what the LLC does in North Dakota.

Managers or governors

Names and addresses of the managers and governors, or of the managing members.

Each answer describes the LLC as of the day the report is signed, and no financial statements are asked for. Changing the principal executive office or mailing address here replaces the separate Address Change form.

An answer the office finds missing or nonconforming sends the report back. If it first went in on time, a corrected report still costs only $50 when it is back on file no later than 30 days after the return (§ 10‑32.1‑89(3)(b)), and a report that can’t be filed for lack of information or payment gets no refund (§ 10‑32.1‑92(25)(b)).

Six Months From Not Good Standing to Termination by Law

The day after the deadline, the report costs $100 instead of $50: the $50 fee plus the $50 late charge in § 10‑32.1‑92(25)(a)(1). The Secretary of State then notifies the LLC of its Not Good Standing status.

Six months after the deadline, an LLC whose report is still missing stops existing under § 10‑32.1‑90(1)(b), with no court step and no advance notice; an LLC formed elsewhere loses its authority the same way under subsection 2(b). The notice goes to the last registered agent after the termination, and the statute calls that decision final.

Counted from November 15, the six months for the 2026 report end on May 15, 2027, the earliest date the statute supports. The office’s own page describes termination “within 6 to 12 months” of the Not Good Standing date, so the LLC’s record in a North Dakota business entity search can still read Active after May 15.

Reinstating Within a Year, or Petitioning the Court in Burleigh County

A terminated LLC, or one whose authority was revoked, has one year from the termination to come back through the Secretary of State. After that, only a district court order can restore it (§ 10‑32.1‑91(1)).

For the Secretary of State’s records, the LLC is active again from the reinstatement date, while contracts signed in between are validated back to the termination. State licenses and permits are applied for again under their own law (§ 10‑32.1‑91(1)(d)).

Licensed Professionals and Farm or Ranch LLCs

Three kinds of LLC file a report that differs from the standard one, either in what goes with it or in its date. The fee is $50 for all three, and penalties for the farm entities are counted from their April 15 date under chapter 10‑06.1.