(a) The Secretary of the State shall charge and collect the following fees for filing documents and issuing certificates and remit them to the Treasurer for the use of the state: (1) Filing application to reserve, register, renew or cancel registration of corporate name, sixty dollars; (2) filing transfer of reserved corporate name, sixty dollars; (3) filing a certificate of incorporation, including appointment of registered agent, twenty dollars; (4) filing change of address of registered agent or change of registered agent, twenty dollars; (5) filing notice of resignation of registered agent in duplicate, twenty dollars; (6) filing certificate of amendment to certificate of incorporation, twenty dollars; (7) filing restated certificate of incorporation, twenty dollars; (8) filing certificate of merger, twenty dollars; (9) filing certificate of correction, twenty dollars; (10) filing certificate of surrender of special charter and adoption of certificate of incorporation, twenty dollars; (11) filing certificate of revocation of dissolution, twenty dollars; (12) filing annual report, fifty dollars; (13) filing application of foreign corporation for certificate of authority to conduct affairs in this state and issuing certificate of authority, forty dollars; (14) filing application of foreign corporation for amended certificate of authority to conduct affairs in this state and issuing amended certificate of authority, forty dollars; (15) filing certificate of reinstatement, including appointment of registered agent, one hundred ten dollars; (16) filing a corrected annual report, fifty dollars; and (17) filing an interim notice of change of director or officer, twenty dollars.
(b) The Secretary of the State shall charge and collect the following miscellaneous charges and remit them to the Treasurer for the use of the state: (1) At the time of any service of process on the Secretary of the State as registered agent of a corporation, which amount may be recovered as taxable costs by the party to the suit or action causing such service to be made if such party prevails in the suit or action, the plaintiff in the process so served shall pay fifty dollars; (2) for preparing and furnishing a copy of any document, instrument or paper filed or recorded relating to a corporation: (A) For each copy of each such document thereof regardless of the number of pages, forty dollars; (B) for affixing the official seal thereto, fifteen dollars; (3) for preparing and furnishing his certificate of existence or authorization, which certificate may reflect any and all changes of corporate name and the date or dates of filing thereof, eighty dollars; (4) for preparing and furnishing his certificate of existence or authorization reflecting certificates affecting fundamental changes to a certificate of incorporation and the date or dates of filing thereof, one hundred twenty dollars; and (5) for other services for which fees are not provided by the general statutes, the Secretary of the State may charge such fees as will, in his judgment, cover the cost of the services provided.
(c) The tax imposed under chapter 219 shall not be imposed upon any transaction for which a fee is charged under the provisions of this section.
(P.A. 96-256, S. 14, 209; P.A. 97-246, S. 44, 99; P.A. 98-137, S. 16, 62; 98-219, S. 33, 34; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 371; P.A. 14-154, S. 6.)
History: P.A. 96-256 effective January 1, 1997; P.A. 97-246 amended Subsec. (a) to replace in Subdiv. (6) “filing certificate of merger or consolidation, ten dollars for each constituent domestic and foreign corporation” with “filing certificate of merger, ten dollars”, replace in Subdiv. (7) “filing certificate of abandonment of merger or consolidation, ten dollars for each constituent domestic and foreign corporation” with “filing certificate of correction, ten dollars”, replace in Subdiv. (9) “filing certificate of dissolution by resolution, ten dollars” with “filing certificate of dissolution, ten dollars”, delete former Subdiv. (10) re filing certificate of dissolution by expiration, redesignate former Subdiv. (11) as Subdiv. (10) and amend said Subdiv. to replace “filing judicial decree of dissolution” with “filing certificate of administrative dissolution”, redesignate former Subdiv. (12) as Subdiv. (11) and amend said Subdiv. to delete provisions re filing biennial report, redesignate former Subdivs. (13), (14) and (15) as Subdivs. (12), (13) and (14), respectively, delete former Subdiv. (16) re filing notice that a director or officer has ceased to be in office, delete former Subdiv. (17) re filing notice that a director or officer has been elected or appointed, redesignate former Subdiv. (18) as Subdiv. (15) and add Subdiv. (16) establishing a $25 fee for filing a corrected annual report, and amended Subsec. (b) to delete former Subdiv. (3) re $20 charge for preparing and furnishing a certificate of good standing, redesignate former Subdivs. (4) and (5) as Subdivs. (3) and (4), respectively, and amend said Subdivs. to replace “certificate of good standing” with “certificate of existence or authorization” and redesignate Subdiv. (6) as Subdiv. (5), effective June 27, 1997; P.A. 98-137 amended Subsec. (a) to add new Subdiv. (1) re $30 fee for filing application to reserve, register, renew or cancel registration of corporate name, new Subdiv. (2) re $30 fee for filing transfer of reserved corporate name, new Subdiv. (12) re $10 fee for filing certificate of revocation of dissolution and new Subdiv. (19) re $10 fee for filing an interim notice of change of director or officer, and to delete former Subdiv. (10) re $10 fee for filing certificate of administrative dissolution, renumbering the remaining Subdivs. accordingly, effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 98-219 revised effective date of P.A. 98-137, but without affecting this section; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 increased fees in Subsecs. (a) and (b); P.A. 14-154 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting former Subdiv. (11) re filing fee for certificate of dissolution, redesignating existing Subdivs. (12) to (15) as Subdivs. (11) to (14), deleting former Subdiv. (16) re filing fee for application for and issuance of certificate of withdrawal of foreign corporation and redesignating existing Subdivs. (17) to (19) as Subdivs. (15) to (17), effective July 1, 2015.