Updated September 4, 2026. Quick answer: a dissolved Maryland corporation reinstates by filing Articles of Revival (for a stock/business corporation whose charter was forfeited) under Md. Code Ann., Corporations & Associations §3-503 (forfeiture of charter) and §3-507 (procedure for revival of forfeited charter), Title 3, Subtitle 5 for $100, with no statutory deadline to do it.
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The filing, and what Maryland calls it
When a Maryland corporation’s charter is forfeited (for nonpayment of taxes/assessments or failure to file an annual Personal Property Return), it is revived by filing Articles of Revival with SDAT’s Charter Division. The filing must recite that the corporation has paid all required fees, filed all delinquent Personal Property Returns, and paid all state/local taxes, interest, and penalties due; a notarized affidavit and, where applicable, county/city tax-clearance certificates must accompany it.
How long you have to reinstate
Maryland sets no deadline for reinstating a dissolved corporation. Neither the statute text nor SDAT’s own Guide for Reviving the Charter of a Maryland Corporation states any time limit after which a forfeited charter can no longer be revived. That does not mean waiting is free; back fees and penalties keep accruing the whole time the entity sits dissolved. (Md. Code Ann., Corps. & Ass’ns §§ 3-503, 3-507)
What you must pay before it goes through
Maryland will not reinstate the corporation until every year it sat delinquent is paid for. Must file all delinquent Personal Property Returns (Form 1) including the forfeiture year, pay all late-filing penalties and personal property taxes through the current year, and obtain a tax clearance certificate from each county/city where property was assessed, in addition to the filing fee. (SDAT Guide for Reviving the Charter of a Maryland Corporation)
Whether your name is still yours
Your original name is not guaranteed to still be yours. SDAT’s own guide instructs applicants to call SDAT to check whether the original name is still available; if not, the old name must still appear in the caption, and the new compliant name is entered separately. Check Maryland’s business-name database before assuming the reinstatement filing will go through under the old name. (SDAT Guide for Reviving the Charter of a Maryland Corporation)
What the filing costs
Maryland’s Articles of Revival (for a stock/business corporation whose charter was forfeited) carries a $100 filing fee. $100 standard processing or $150 expedited, per SDAT’s own guide, plus any owed personal property taxes/penalties.
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 Maryland’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 Maryland instead, the filing, fee and statute are different: see reinstating an LLC in Maryland.
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.
- SDAT Articles of Revival + Guide for Reviving the Charter of a Maryland Corporation: https://dat.maryland.gov/SDAT%20Forms/corp_revive.pdf
- Official Maryland General Assembly statute text, section 3-507: https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Laws/StatuteText?article=gca§ion=3-507