2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 6 - Department of State › 96 - Fees and Refunds.

§ 96. Fees  and  refunds.  Except  as  otherwise  provided  by section
ninety-six-a of this chapter, the department of state shall collect  the
following fees:
1. For searching the records of the department for the availability of
a corporate, limited partnership or limited liability company name, five
dollars for each name submitted.
2. For searching the records of the department other than as set forth
in  subdivision one hereof, five dollars for each name in excess of five
submitted by or on behalf of an applicant for a search.
3. For a copy of any paper or record not required to be  certified  or
otherwise authenticated, fifty cents per page; except that the fee for a
copy  of  any  paper or record not required to be certified or otherwise
authenticated which is furnished by the bureau of  corporations  of  the
department  of state, shall be five dollars, regardless of the number of
pages.
4. For a certified or exemplified copy of any law,  record  or  paper,
except  a  photostatic  copy  furnished  by the department of state, one
dollar per page; for a certified or exemplified copy of any law,  record
or paper reproduced by photostat by the department of state, fifty cents
per  page and in either case five dollars additional for the certificate
under the official seal of the department  of  state,  affixed  thereto;
except that the fee for a certified or exemplified copy of any record or
paper which is furnished by the bureau of corporations of the department
of  state,  shall  be  ten dollars, regardless of the number of pages or
regardless of whether such document is reproduced by photostat.
5. For a certificate or authentication under the  great  seal  of  the
state, ten dollars.
6. For a certificate as to the official character of a commissioner of
deeds residing in another state or foreign country, one dollar.
7.  For  every  other  certificate  under  the  official  seal  of the
department of state, twenty-five dollars.
8. For registering and  recording  a  notice  of  a  mining  claim  as
required by section eighty-two of the public lands law, fifty dollars.
9.   (a)  For  filing  under  the  general  associations  law  or  any
corporation law, except the business corporation law and  not-for-profit
corporation law: a certificate of incorporation, one hundred twenty-five
dollars; a certificate or report of voluntary dissolution, including the
issuance  of  duplicate  certificates  by  the secretary of state, and a
certified copy of an order or judgment of  dissolution,  sixty  dollars;
the  statement  and  designation of a foreign corporation, including the
issuance of a certificate of authority, two hundred twenty-five dollars;
a certificate of designation or change of address or any certificate  of
change of mailing address or office of a foreign corporation, other than
a   moneyed  corporation,  thirty  dollars;  any  other  certificate  or
instrument, sixty dollars.
(b)  For  filing  under  the  business   corporation   law   and   the
not-for-profit corporation law as set forth in those chapters.
10.  For service of process on the secretary of state, acting as agent
for a third party pursuant to  law,  except  as  otherwise  specifically
provided  by  law,  forty dollars. No fee shall be collected for process
served on behalf of a county, city, town or village or  other  political
subdivision  of the state. The fees paid the secretary of state shall be
a taxable disbursement.
11. (a) For the special handling of requests made to the  division  of
corporations  of the department of state for any service for which a fee
is collected as prescribed by law, twenty-five dollars. For the purposes
of this section the term "special handling" shall mean the completion of
the request within twenty-four hours of receipt of the  request,  except

in  those  cases  where  the  twenty-four  hour  period  shall  end on a
Saturday, Sunday, holiday or day on which the division  of  corporations
of  the  department of state is not open for business, in which case the
twenty-four hour period shall be extended to the appropriate hour of the
next  succeeding  business  day  on  which  such  division  is  open for
business.
(b) For the same day  expedited  handling  of  requests  made  to  the
division  of corporations of the department of state for any service for
which a fee is collected as prescribed by law, seventy-five dollars. For
the purposes of this section the  term  "same  day  expedited  handling"
shall  mean  the completion of the request on the same day as the day of
request.
(c) For the two  hour  priority  handling  of  requests  made  to  the
division  of corporations of the department of state for any service for
which a fee is  collected  as  prescribed  by  law,  one  hundred  fifty
dollars.  For  the  purposes of this section the term "two hour priority
handling" shall mean the completion of the request within two  hours  on
the same day as the day of the request.
(d)  For  handling  of  non-expedited requests made to the division of
corporations of the department of state for any service for which a  fee
is  collected as prescribed by law, the completion of such request shall
be accomplished within seven business days.
12. For the filing,  recording  or  registering  of  any  certificate,
notice  or other paper required to be filed, recorded or registered, the
fee for which is not otherwise prescribed by law, twenty-five dollars.
13. Except as otherwise specifically provided by law,  the  department
of  state  may  refund,  within three years from the date of payment and
upon audit of the state comptroller, any fee or portion of  a  fee  paid
pursuant  to  any of the statutes which the department is charged by law
to administer, in any case in which:
a. the license, permit, or certificate applied for is not  issued,  or
does not take effect, or
b. the filing or certification requested is not made, or
c. the service requested is not rendered, or
d.  the  payment  made  is  in excess of the amount prescribed by such
statute, or
e. the licensee has entered the active armed services  of  the  United
States in which event the refund shall be such proportion of the license
fee paid as the number of full months remaining unexpired of the license
period bears to the total number of months in such period.
14. No fee shall be collected for copies of records furnished to state
officers  as defined in the public officers law, section two, for use in
their official capacity.
15. The department of state shall on or before the tenth day  of  each
month,  out  of the moneys collected during the preceding month pursuant
to subdivision nine of this section, pay over to each  county  clerk  in
whose  office  a  certified  copy  of a corporation certificate or other
instrument relating to a domestic or foreign corporation shall have been
filed by the department during the preceding month pursuant to  law  the
sum  of  six  dollars for each such copy of a corporation certificate or
other instrument for which the department shall have collected a  filing
fee  of  thirty dollars or more, and the sum of one dollar for each such
copy of a corporation certificate or  other  instrument  for  which  the
department  shall  have collected a sum of less than thirty dollars, and
such payment shall be received by the county clerk in full  satisfaction
of  all  fees  for filing such copy, any other general or special law to
the contrary notwithstanding.  All  such  moneys  remaining  after  such

payments  to  the  county  clerks  shall be paid pursuant to section one
hundred twenty-one of the state finance law.
16.  Consistent with the provisions of the corporate laws of the state
of New York, the department of state  shall  produce  or  reproduce  the
content  of  any informational systems maintained pursuant to such laws.
The secretary of state shall  establish  the  type  and  amount  of  the
reasonable  fees  to  be  collected  by the department of state for such
informational systems. Such fees shall be subject  to  approval  of  the
director  of  the  budget and shall be promulgated in the official rules
and regulations of the  department  of  state  in  accordance  with  the
provisions of the state administrative procedure act.
17.  For  receipt  of  a  village  incorporation  petition pursuant to
section 2-202 of the village law, two hundred fifty dollars.