Tennessee § 48-247-103 - Filing, service and copying fees.

§ 48-247-103. Filing, service and copying fees.

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 Articles including designation of initial registered office and agent As provided in subsection (d) Certificate of formation $20.00 Articles of conversion As provided in subsection (d) Application for reserved LLC name 20.00 Application for use of indistinguishable name 20.00 Notice of transfer or cancellation of reserved name 20.00 Application for and renewal of registered name 20.00 Application for or change, cancellation, or renewal of assumed name 20.00 LLC's statement of change of registered agent, registered office, or both 20.00 Agent's statement of change of registered office 5.00 per limited liability company, but not less than 20.00 Agent's statement of resignation 20.00 Articles of amendment 20.00 Amended and restated articles 20.00 Restatement of articles 20.00 Articles of correction 20.00 Certificate of merger 100.00 [Reserved.] Articles of termination by organizers 20.00 Notice of dissolution 20.00 Articles of revocation of dissolution 20.00 Articles of termination 20.00 Certificate of administrative dissolution No fee Application for reinstatement following administrative dissolution 70.00 Articles of termination following administrative dissolution 100.00 Certificate of reinstatement No fee Decree of judicial dissolution No fee Application for certificate of authority (including designation of initial registered office and agent) As provided in subsection (d) Application for amended certificate of authority 20.00 Certificate of cancellation of authority 20.00 Certificate of administrative revocation of certificate of authority No fee Certificate of cancellation following administrative revocation 100.00 Application for certificate of existence or authorization 20.00 Application for reinstatement following administrative revocation 70.00 Annual report As provided in subsection (d) Any other document required or permitted to be filed by chapters 201-248 of this title 20.00 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. 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. 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. 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. Acts 1994, ch. 868, § 1; 1995, ch. 403, §§ 2, 86; 1997, ch. 421, § 2; 1998, ch. 890, § 3; 2000, ch. 568, § 3; 2010, ch. 742, § 5. Law Reviews. Key Tax Aspects of the Tennessee Limited Liability Company Act (Andrhe Sophia Blumstein), 30 Tenn. B.J. 14 (1994).