(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

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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 43-38-1103

  • Cooperative: means an association organized under this title conducting business on a cooperative plan as provided under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 43-38-103
  • Member: means a person or entity reflected on the books of the cooperative as the owner of governance rights of a membership interest of the cooperative and includes patron and nonpatron members. See Tennessee Code 43-38-103
  • Secretary of state: means the person who holds the office of secretary of state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 43-38-103
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Termination: means the end of a cooperative's existence as a legal entity and occurs when the articles of termination are filed with the secretary of state under §. See Tennessee Code 43-38-103
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(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.