Filing, Service, and Copying Fees

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  5. Filing Documents
  6. Filing, Service, and Copying Fees

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  1. The secretary of state shall collect the following fees when the documents described in this subsection (a) are delivered to the secretary of state for filing:

    Document  Fee

    1. Charter (including designation of initial registered office  and agent)  $100.00
    2. Application for use of indistinguishable name  20.00
    3. Application for reserved name  20.00
    4. Notice of transfer or cancellation of reserved name  20.00
    5. Application for registered name  20.00
    6. Application for renewal for registered name  20.00
    7. Application for or change, cancellation, or renewal of  assumed name  20.00
    8. Corporation's statement of change of registered agent or  registered office, or both  20.00
    9. Agent's statement of change of registered office  5.00  per corporation,   but not less than   20.00
    10. Agent's statement of resignation  20.00
    11. Charter amendment  20.00
    12. Restatement of charter  20.00
    13. Amended and restated charter  20.00
    14. Articles of entity conversion  100.00
    15. Articles of charter surrender  20.00
    16. Statement of abandonment of merger, conversion or share  exchange  20.00
    17. Articles of merger or share exchange  100.00
    18. Articles of dissolution and termination by incorporators  or directors  20.00
    19. Articles of dissolution  20.00
    20. Articles of revocation of dissolution  20.00
    21. Articles of termination of corporate existence  20.00
    22. Certificate of administrative dissolution  No fee
    23. Application for reinstatement following  administrative dissolution  70.00
    24. Articles of termination following administrative dissolution  or revocation  100.00
    25. Certificate of reinstatement  No fee
    26. Certificate of judicial dissolution  No fee
    27. Application for certificate of authority (including  designation of initial registered office and agent)  600.00
    28. Application for amended certificate of authority  20.00
    29. Application for certificate of withdrawal  20.00
    30. Certificate of revocation of authority to transact business  No fee
    31. Application for certificate of withdrawal following  administrative revocation  100.00
    32. Application for reinstatement following administrative  revocation  70.00
    33. Annual report  20.00
    34. Articles of correction  20.00
    35. Application for certificate of existence or authorization  20.00
    36. Any other document required or permitted to be filed by  chapters 11-27 of this title  20.00
  2. The secretary of state shall collect a fee of twenty dollars ($20.00) each time process is served on the secretary of state under chapters 11-27 of this title. The party to a proceeding causing service of process is entitled to recover this fee as costs if such party prevails in the proceeding.
  3. The secretary of state shall collect a fee of twenty dollars ($20.00) for copying all filed documents relating to a domestic or foreign corporation. All such copies will be certified or validated by the secretary of state.
  4. In addition to the other filing requirements of chapters 11-27 of this title, a copy of all documents specified in subdivisions (a)(1) and (11)-(20) shall also be filed in the office of the register of deeds in the county wherein a corporation has its principal office, if such principal office is in Tennessee, and in the case of a merger, in the county in which the new or surviving corporation shall have its principal office if such 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 such filing.


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