(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:

(1) Articles including designation of initial registered as providedin subsection (d)

office and agent

(2) Certificate of formation$20.00

(3) Application for reserved cooperative name20.00

(4) Application for use of indistinguishable name20.00

(5) Notice of transfer of cancellation of reserved name20.00

(6) Application for and renewal of registered name20.00

(7) Application for or change, cancellation, or renewal of 20.00

assumed name

(8) Cooperative's statement of change of registered agent, 20.00

registered office, or both

(9) Agent's statement of change of registered office5.00 (per cooperative, but not less than 20.00)

(10) Agent's statement of resignation20.00

(11) Articles of amendment20.00

(12) Amended and restated articles20.00

(13) Restatement of articles20.00

(14) Articles of correction20.00

(15) Certificate of merger100.00

(16) Articles of termination by organizers20.00

(17) Notice of dissolution20.00

(18) Articles of revocation or dissolution20.00

(19) Articles of termination20.00

(20) Certificate of administrative dissolutionNo fee

(21) Application for reinstatement following administrative70.00

dissolution

(22) Articles of termination following administrative 100.00

dissolution

(23) Certificate of reinstatementNo fee

(24) Decree of judicial dissolutionNo fee

(25) Annual reportas provided insubsection (d)

(26) Any other document required or permitted 20.00

to be filed by this chapter

(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.