Updated September 4, 2026. Quick answer: a dissolved Oregon corporation reinstates by filing Reinstatement (filed online via Business Registry Renewal, or by paper reinstatement form) with the Oregon Secretary of State, Corporation Division under ORS 60.654 (Reinstatement following administrative dissolution); ORS 60.657 (Appeal from denial of reinstatement), but only within 5 years of dissolution.
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The filing, and what Oregon calls it
Oregon calls this ‘reinstatement’ following ‘administrative dissolution,’ which is triggered mainly by failure to file the required annual report. The corporation applies to the Secretary of State stating its name and the date of dissolution, and that the ground(s) for dissolution no longer exist; if the Secretary finds the application correct and the corporate name still available, the corporation is reinstated, relating back to the dissolution date as if it never happened.
How long you have to reinstate
Oregon does not let a dissolved corporation reinstate forever. You have just 5 years 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. Application must be made within 5 years of the administrative dissolution date. The Secretary of State may waive that 5-year requirement if the corporation requests a waiver and provides evidence it continued operating as an active concern throughout the dissolution period. (ORS 60.654(1), (4))
What you must pay before it goes through
Oregon will not reinstate the corporation until every year it sat delinquent is paid for. Per the Secretary of State’s own reinstatement guidance, the corporation must pay a reinstatement fee plus the missed annual report fee(s) for each year not filed. Neither the statute (ORS 60.654) nor the SOS fee schedule PDF located this session itemizes the specific dollar reinstatement fee separately from other filings, so an exact figure could not be independently confirmed. (Oregon SOS reinstatement guidance (sos.oregon.gov); general fee-setting authority at ORS 56.140)
Whether your name is still yours
Your original name is not guaranteed to still be yours. The Secretary of State’s own guidance states plainly: ‘The name must still be available… If your business name is no longer available, a name change will be necessary in order to reinstate.’ The statute similarly conditions reinstatement on the name meeting Oregon’s corporate-name-availability requirement. Check Oregon’s business-name database before assuming the reinstatement filing will go through under the old name. (ORS 60.654(2); Oregon SOS reinstatement guidance)
What the filing costs
SOS confirms a reinstatement fee plus missed annual-report fees apply, but its reinstatement guidance page does not state the dollar amount. The SOS’s Business Registry Fee Schedule lists a $100 fee for domestic business/professional corporations under a line item called ‘Revocation of Dissolution’ ($50 for nonprofits) – but whether that line item is the same filing as reinstatement after administrative dissolution under ORS 60.654 could not be confirmed this session, so left null rather than guess.
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 Oregon’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 Oregon instead, the filing, fee and statute are different: see reinstating an LLC in Oregon.
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.
- ORS Chapter 60 – Private Corporations, full text (Oregon Legislature): https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors060.html
- Oregon SOS – Reinstate a Business: https://sos.oregon.gov/business/Pages/reinstate-a-business.aspx
- Oregon SOS – Business Registry Fee Schedule (PDF): https://sos.oregon.gov/business/Documents/business-registry-forms/br-fee-schedule.pdf