Tennessee § 48-51-303 - Filing, service, and copying fees.

§ 48-51-303. Filing, service, and copying fees.

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 Charter (including designation of initial registered office and agent) $100.00 Application for use of indistinguishable name 20.00 Application for reserved name 20.00 Notice of transfer or cancellation of reserved name 20.00 Application for registered name 20.00 Application for renewal of registered name 20.00 Application for or change, cancellation, or renewal of assumed name 20.00 Corporation's statement of change of registered agent or registered office, or both 20.00 Agent's statement of change of registered office 5.00 per corporation but not less than 20.00 Agent's statement of resignation 20.00 Charter amendment 20.00 Restatement of charter 20.00 Amended and restated charter 20.00 Articles of entity conversion 100.00 Articles of charter surrender 20.00 Statement of abandonment of merger, conversion, or membership exchange 20.00 Articles of merger or membership exchange 100.00 Articles of dissolution and termination by incorporators or directors 20.00 Articles of dissolution 20.00 Articles of revocation of dissolution 20.00 Articles of termination of corporate existence 20.00 Certificate of administrative dissolution No fee Application for reinstatement following administrative dissolution 70.00 Certificate of reinstatement No fee Articles of termination following administrative dissolution or revocation 100.00 Certificate of judicial dissolution No fee Application for certificate of authority (including designation of initial registered office and agent) 600.00 Application for amended certificate of authority 20.00 Application for certificate of withdrawal 20.00 Certificate of revocation of authority to transact business No fee Application for reinstatement following administrative revocation 70.00 Application for certificate of withdrawal following administrative revocation 100.00 Annual report 20.00 Articles of correction 20.00 Application for certificate of existence or authorization 20.00 Any other document required or permitted to be filed by chapters 51-68 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 51-68 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. 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. In addition to the other filing requirements of chapters 51-68 of this title, a copy of all documents specified in subdivisions (a)(1), (11), (12), (17), (19)-(21) 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. Acts 1987, ch. 242, § 1.32; 1989, ch. 445, §§ 2, 27; 1991, ch. 188, § 6; 1998, ch. 784, § 2; 1998, ch. 890, § 2; 2000, ch. 568, § 2; 2014, ch. 899, §§ 11, 12. Cross-References. Business corporations, fees for filing with secretary of state, § 48-11-303 . Register's fee for recording instruments, § 8-21-1001 . Textbooks. Tennessee Forms (Robinson, Ramsey and Harwell), No. 5-1401.