2023 Tennessee Code
Title 48 - CORPORATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS (§§ 48-1-101 — 48-250-115)
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES (§§ 48-201-101 — 48-250-115)
Chapter 247 - FILING DOCUMENTS AND SECRETARY OF STATE (§§ 48-247-101 — 48-247-202)
Part 1 - FILING DOCUMENTS (§§ 48-247-101 — 48-247-111)
Section 48-247-103 - Filing, service and copying fees

• (a) The office of the secretary of state shall collect the following fees when the documents described in chapters 201-248 of this title are delivered for filing, and for purposes of chapters 201-248 of this title, no document is considered delivered to the office of the secretary of state for filing unless accompanied by such fee:

  DocumentFee

  • (1) Articles including designation of initial registered office and agent ....................As provided in subsection (d)
  • (2) Certificate of formation ....................$20.00
  • (3) Articles of conversion ....................As provided in subsection (d)
  • (4) Application for reserved LLC name ....................20.00
  • (5) Application for use of indistinguishable name ....................20.00
  • (6) Notice of transfer or cancellation of reserved name ....................20.00
  • (7) Application for and renewal of registered name ....................20.00
  • (8) Application for or change, cancellation, or renewal of assumed name ....................20.00
  • (9) LLC's statement of change of registered agent, registered office, or both ....................20.00
  • (10) Agent's statement of change of registered office ....................5.00 per limited liability company, but not less than 20.00
  • (11) Agent's statement of resignation ....................20.00
  • (12) Articles of amendment ....................20.00
  • (13) Amended and restated articles ....................20.00
  • (14) Restatement of articles ....................20.00
  • (15) Articles of correction ....................20.00
  • (16) Certificate of merger ....................100.00
  • (17) [Reserved.]
  • (18) Articles of termination by organizers ....................20.00
  • (19) Notice of dissolution ....................20.00
  • (20) Articles of revocation of dissolution ....................20.00
  • (21) Articles of termination ....................20.00
  • (22) Certificate of administrative dissolution ....................No fee
  • (23) Application for reinstatement following administrative dissolution ....................70.00
  • (24) Articles of termination following administrative dissolution ....................100.00
  • (25) Certificate of reinstatement ....................No fee
  • (26) Decree of judicial dissolution ....................No fee
  • (27) Application for certificate of authority (including designation of initial registered office and agent) As provided in subsection (d)
  • (28) Application for amended certificate of authority ....................20.00
  • (29) Certificate of cancellation of authority ....................20.00
  • (30) Certificate of administrative revocation of certificate of authority ....................No fee
  • (31) Certificate of cancellation following administrative revocation ....................100.00
  • (32) Application for certificate of existence or authorization ....................20.00
  • (33) Application for reinstatement following administrative revocation ....................70.00
  • (34) Annual report ....................As provided in subsection (d)
  • (35) Any other document required or permitted to be filed by chapters 201-248 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 201-248 of this title. 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 domestic or foreign LLC. All such copies will be certified or validated by the secretary of state.

• (d) The secretary of state shall collect from each LLC or foreign LLC, if applicable, an annual fee equal to fifty dollars ($50.00) per each LLC member in existence on the date of the initial filing, and each year thereafter based on the number of LLC 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). Notwithstanding this subsection (d), if the LLC is prohibited by its articles from doing business in Tennessee, the filing fee shall be three hundred dollars ($300) regardless of the number of members in existence on the date of filing.

• (e) In addition to the other filing requirements of chapters 201-248 of this title, a copy of all documents specified in subdivisions (a)(1), (12), (13), (14), (15), (16), (18), (19) and (20) shall also be filed in the office of the register of deeds in the county wherein an LLC 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 LLC 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 1994, ch. 868, § 1; 1995, ch. 403, §§ 2, 86; 1997 , ch. 421, § 2; 1998, ch. 890, § 3; 2000, ch. 568, § 3; 2010 , ch. 742, § 5.