2023 Tennessee Code › Title 43 - AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE (§§ 43-1-101 — 43-40-105) › Chapter 38 - TENNESSEE PROCESSING COOPERATIVE LAW (§§ 43-38-101 — 43-38-1109) › Part 11 - DOCUMENT REQUIREMENTS (§§ 43-38-1101 — 43-38-1109) › Section 43-38-1103 - Filing, service and copying fees

(a)
The office of the secretary of state shall collect the following fees when the documents described in this chapter are delivered for filing; and for purposes of this chapter, no document is considered delivered to the office of the secretary of state for filing unless accompanied by the fee:
Document
Fee
(1)
Articles including designation of initial registered office and agent as providedin subsection (d)
(2)
Certificate of formation
$20.00
(3)
Application for reserved cooperative name
20.00
(4)
Application for use of indistinguishable name
20.00
(5)
Notice of transfer of cancellation of reserved name
20.00
(6)
Application for and renewal of registered name
20.00
(7)
Application for or change, cancellation, or renewal of assumed name
20.00
(8)
Cooperative's statement of change of registered agent, registered office, or both
20.00
(9)
Agent's statement of change of registered office (per cooperative, but not less than 20.00)
5.00
(10)
Agent's statement of resignation
20.00
(11)
Articles of amendment
20.00
(12)
Amended and restated articles
20.00
(13)
Restatement of articles
20.00
(14)
Articles of correction
20.00
(15)
Certificate of merger
100.00
(16)
Articles of termination by organizers
20.00
(17)
Notice of dissolution
20.00
(18)
Articles of revocation or dissolution
20.00
(19)
Articles of termination
20.00
(20)
Certificate of administrative dissolution
No fee
(21)
Application for reinstatement following administrative dissolution
70.00
(22)
Articles of termination following administrative dissolution
100.00
(23)
Certificate of reinstatement
No fee
(24)
Decree of judicial dissolution
No fee
(25)
Annual reportas provided in subsection (d)
(26)
Any other document required or permitted to be filed by this chapter
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 this chapter. The party to a proceeding causing service of process is entitled to recover this fee as costs, if it 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 cooperative. All such copies will be certified or validated by the secretary of state.
(d)
The secretary of state shall collect from each cooperative, if applicable, an annual fee equal to fifty dollars ($50.00) per each cooperative member in existence on the date of the initial filing, and each year thereafter, based on the number of cooperative 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).
(e)
In addition to the other filing requirements of this chapter, a copy of all documents specified in subdivisions (a)(1) and (a)(11)-(a)(20) shall also be filed in the office of the register of deeds in the county where a cooperative has its principal office, if the principal office is in Tennessee, and in the case of a merger, in the county in which the new or surviving cooperative shall have its principal office, if the 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 this filing.
Acts 2004, ch. 534, § 33.