Filing, Service and Copying Fees

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  1. The office of the secretary of state shall collect the following fees when the documents described in chapters 201-248 of this title are delivered for filing, and for purposes of chapters 201-248 of this title, no document is considered delivered to the office of the secretary of state for filing unless accompanied by such 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. Articles of conversion  As provided  in subsection  (d)
    4. Application for reserved LLC name  20.00
    5. Application for use of indistinguishable name  20.00
    6. Notice of transfer or cancellation of reserved name  20.00
    7. Application for and renewal of registered name  20.00
    8. Application for or change, cancellation, or renewal  of assumed name  20.00
    9. LLC's statement of change of registered agent, registered office,  or both  20.00
    10. Agent's statement of change of registered office  5.00  per limited  liability company, but not  less than  20.00
    11. Agent's statement of resignation  20.00
    12. Articles of amendment  20.00
    13. Amended and restated articles  20.00
    14. Restatement of articles  20.00
    15. Articles of correction  20.00
    16. Certificate of merger  100.00
    17. [Reserved.]
    18. Articles of termination by organizers  20.00
    19. Notice of dissolution  20.00
    20. Articles of revocation of dissolution  20.00
    21. Articles of termination  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  100.00
    25. Certificate of reinstatement  No fee
    26. Decree of judicial dissolution  No fee
    27. Application for certificate of authority (including  designation of initial registered office and agent)  As provided  in subsection  (d)
    28. Application for amended certificate of authority  20.00
    29. Certificate of cancellation of authority  20.00
    30. Certificate of administrative revocation of certificate  of authority  No fee
    31. Certificate of cancellation following administrative  revocation  100.00
    32. Application for certificate of existence or authorization  20.00
    33. Application for reinstatement following administrative  revocation  70.00
    34. Annual report  As provided  in subsection  (d)
    35. Any other document required or permitted to be  filed by chapters 201-248 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 201-248 of this title. The party to a proceeding causing service of process is entitled to recover this fee as costs if it 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 LLC. All such copies will be certified or validated by the secretary of state.
  4. The secretary of state shall collect from each LLC or foreign LLC, if applicable, an annual fee equal to fifty dollars ($50.00) per each LLC member in existence on the date of the initial filing, and each year thereafter based on the number of LLC 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). Notwithstanding this subsection (d), if the LLC is prohibited by its articles from doing business in Tennessee, the filing fee shall be three hundred dollars ($300) regardless of the number of members in existence on the date of filing.
  5. In addition to the other filing requirements of chapters 201-248 of this title, a copy of all documents specified in subdivisions (a)(1), (12), (13), (14), (15), (16), (18), (19) and (20) shall also be filed in the office of the register of deeds in the county wherein an LLC 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 LLC 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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