Tenn. Code § 43-38-1103

Current through Acts 2023-2024, ch. 1069

Section 43-38-1103 - Filing, service and copying fees

(a) The office of the secretary of state shall collect the following fees when the documents described in this chapter are delivered for filing; and for purposes of this chapter, no document is considered delivered to the office of the secretary of state for filing unless accompanied by the fee:

Document	Fee
(1) Articles including designation of initial registered office and agent as provided in subsection (d)
(2) Certificate of formation	$20.00
(3) Application for reserved cooperative name	20.00
(4) Application for use of indistinguishable name	20.00
(5) Notice of transfer of cancellation of reserved name	20.00
(6) Application for and renewal of registered name	20.00
(7) Application for or change, cancellation, or renewal of assumed name	20.00
(8) Cooperative's statement of change of registered agent, registered office, or both	20.00
(9) Agent's statement of change of registered office (per cooperative, but not less than 20.00)	5.00
(10) Agent's statement of resignation	20.00
(11) Articles of amendment	20.00
(12) Amended and restated articles	20.00
(13) Restatement of articles	20.00
(14) Articles of correction	20.00
(15) Certificate of merger	100.00
(16) Articles of termination by organizers	20.00
(17) Notice of dissolution	20.00
(18) Articles of revocation or dissolution	20.00
(19) Articles of termination	20.00
(20) Certificate of administrative dissolution	No fee
(21) Application for reinstatement following administrative dissolution	70.00
(22) Articles of termination following administrative dissolution	100.00
(23) Certificate of reinstatement	No fee
(24) Decree of judicial dissolution	No fee
(25) Annual report as provided in subsection (d)
(26) Any other document required or permitted to be filed by this chapter	20.00

(b) The secretary of state shall collect a fee of twenty dollars ($20.00) each time process is served on the secretary of state under this chapter. The party to a proceeding causing service of process is entitled to recover this fee as costs, if it prevails in the proceeding.

(c) The secretary of state shall collect a fee of twenty dollars ($20.00) for copying all filed documents relating to a cooperative. All such copies will be certified or validated by the secretary of state.

(d) The secretary of state shall collect from each cooperative, if applicable, an annual fee equal to fifty dollars ($50.00) per each cooperative member in existence on the date of the initial filing, and each year thereafter, based on the number of cooperative members in existence on the date of the filing for the annual report, with a minimum fee of three hundred dollars ($300) and a maximum fee of three thousand dollars ($3,000).

(e) In addition to the other filing requirements of this chapter, a copy of all documents specified in subdivisions (a)(1) and (a)(11)-(a)(20) shall also be filed in the office of the register of deeds in the county where a cooperative has its principal office, if the principal office is in Tennessee, and in the case of a merger, in the county in which the new or surviving cooperative shall have its principal office, if the principal office is in Tennessee. The register of deeds may charge five dollars ($5.00), plus fifty cents (50¢) per page in excess of five (5) pages for this filing.

T.C.A. § 43-38-1103

Acts 2004, ch. 534, § 33.