CHAPTER NO. 784
HOUSE BILL NO. 2915
By Representative Hargrove
Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 2811
By Senator Crutchfield
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Sections 48-11-303(a) through (c) and Sections 48-51-303(a) through (c), and to repeal Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 67-4-412, relative to filing, service and copying fees and privilege taxes collected by the Secretary of State.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 48-11-303(a)-(c), is amended by deleting the existing subsections in their entirety and by substituting instead the following:
(a) The Secretary of State shall collect the following fees when the documents described in this subsection 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 $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 merger or share exchange $100.00
(15) Articles of dissolution and termination
by incorporators or directors $20.00
(16) Articles of dissolution $20.00
(17) Articles of revocation of dissolution $20.00
(18) Articles of termination of corporate
existence $20.00
(19) Certificate of administrative
dissolution No fee
(20) Application for reinstatement
following administrative dissolution $70.00
(21) Articles of termination following
administrative dissolution or revocation $100.00
(22) Certificate of reinstatement No fee
(23) Certificate of judicial dissolution No fee
(24) Application for certificate of authority
(including designation of initial
registered office and agent) $600.00
(25) Application for amended certificate of
authority $20.00
(26) Application for certificate of
withdrawal $20.00
(27) Certificate of revocation of authority to
transact business No fee
(28) Application for certificate of
withdrawal following administrative
revocation $100.00
(29) Application for reinstatement
following administrative revocation $70.00
(30) Annual report $20.00
(31) Articles of correction $20.00
(32) Application for certificate of existence
or authorization $20.00
(33) Any other document required or
permitted to be filed by Chapters 11-27 of
this Title $20.00
(b) 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.
(c) 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.
SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 48-51-303(a)-(c), is amended by deleting the existing subsections in their entirety and by substituting instead the following:
The Secretary of State shall collect the following fees when the documents described in this subsection 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 of 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 $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 merger $100.00
(15) Articles of dissolution and termination
by incorporators or directors $20.00
(16) Articles of dissolution $20.00
(17) Articles of revocation of dissolution $20.00
(18) Articles of termination of corporate
existence $20.00
(19) Certificate of administrative
dissolution No fee
(20) Application for reinstatement
following administrative dissolution $70.00
(21) Certificate of reinstatement No fee
(22) Articles of termination following
administrative dissolution or revocation $100.00
(23) Certificate of judicial dissolution No fee
(24) Application for certificate of authority
(including designation of initial
registered office and agent) $600.00
(25) Application for amended certificate of
authority $20.00
(26) Application for certificate of
withdrawal $20.00
(27) Certificate of revocation of authority to
transact business No fee
(28) Application for reinstatement
following administrative revocation $70.00
(29) Application for certificate of
withdrawal following administrative
revocation $100.00
(30) Annual report $20.00
(31) Articles of correction $20.00
(32) Application for certificate of existence
or authorization $20.00
(33) Any other document required or
permitted to be filed by chapters 51-68 of
this title $20.00
(b) 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.
(c) 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.
SECTION 3. Tennessee Code Annotated Section 67-4-412, is repealed.
SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
PASSED: April 9, 1998
APPROVED this 22nd day of April 1998