Updated September 4, 2026. Quick answer: a dissolved North Dakota corporation reinstates by filing No separate reinstatement application form – the dissolved corporation files its most recent past-due Annual Report plus a reinstatement fee with the North Dakota Secretary of State under N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-146(8) (North Dakota Business Corporation Act – dissolution/reinstatement for failure to file annual report); reinstatement fee set in § 10-19.1-147(24)(a)(3) for $135, but only within 1 year of dissolution.
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The filing, and what North Dakota calls it
North Dakota calls this simply ‘reinstatement.’ A corporation that fails to file its annual report (plus late fees) within one year after the report’s due date is ‘considered involuntarily dissolved by operation of law.’ To reinstate, it files the most recent past-due annual report together with the filing and penalty fees for all past-due reports and pays a flat reinstatement fee – there is no separate reinstatement application form required by statute.
How long you have to reinstate
North Dakota does not let a dissolved corporation reinstate forever. You have just 1 year from the dissolution or revocation date; miss it and the only path back is forming a new entity from scratch, losing the original formation date and history. Reinstatement under this mechanism is only available if the past-due fees are paid and the annual report filed within one year following the involuntary dissolution. If more than a year passes, this statutory reinstatement route is unavailable and the entity would need to re-incorporate (or pursue court-ordered relief under a separate provision). (N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-146(8))
What you must pay before it goes through
North Dakota will not reinstate the corporation until every year it sat delinquent is paid for. Must pay the $25 annual-report filing fee plus escalating late penalties ($20 if filed within 90 days of the due date, $60 thereafter) for every past-due annual report, plus a separate $135 reinstatement fee charged specifically after involuntary dissolution. (N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-147(24)(a))
Whether your name is still yours
Whether North Dakota protects a dissolved corporation’s name against a new filer during the dissolved period was not independently confirmed this session; The reinstatement provision itself (§10-19.1-146(8)) does not require re-confirming name availability. The general corporate-name statute requires names to be ‘distinguishable in the records of the secretary of state,’ but the text fetched does not contain an explicit grace-period/name-protection carve-out for dissolved corporations analogous to Montana’s 120-day rule, so whether another filer could take the name during the 1-year reinstatement window is unconfirmed.. (N.D.C.C. § 10-19.1-13)
What the filing costs
North Dakota’s No separate reinstatement application form – the dissolved corporation files its most recent past-due Annual Report plus a reinstatement fee with the North Dakota Secretary of State carries a $135 filing fee. $135 reinstatement fee under §10-19.1-147(24)(a)(3), on top of the $25 annual-report filing fee and escalating late penalties ($20/$60) for each past-due annual report. Confirmed directly from the North Dakota Century Code Chapter 10-19.1 PDF fetched from the Legislature’s own site this session.
What this page does not answer
Reinstating the entity at the state level and squaring things up with the IRS are two separate processes. Late federal returns, penalty abatement requests, and reinstating a lapsed EIN’s associated accounts are governed by federal law, not by North Dakota’s corporation statute, and this page does not source them. We have the state-filing answer at primary and the federal-cleanup answer not at all.
This page covers a for-profit business corporation. If you are reinstating an LLC in North Dakota instead, the filing, fee and statute are different: see reinstating an LLC in North Dakota.
Sources
Every citation on this page is statutory or the Secretary of State’s own official filing instructions. No formation service, no registered-agent marketing page and no aggregator is cited anywhere in this cluster as a source of law; those are the only publishers of the competing versions.
- N.D.C.C. Chapter 10-19.1 – North Dakota Business Corporation Act (PDF): https://ndlegis.gov/cencode/t10c19-1.pdf
- ND Secretary of State – Maintain Registration: https://www.sos.nd.gov/business/business-services/maintain-registration