Sec. 34-112. Fees payable to Secretary of the State. Sales tax not imposed.

      Sec. 34-112. Fees payable to Secretary of the State. Sales tax not imposed. The Secretary of the State shall charge and collect the following fees and remit them to the Treasurer for the use of the state:

      (a) Fees for filing documents and issuing certificates: (1) Filing application to reserve a limited liability company name or to cancel a reserved limited liability company name, thirty dollars; (2) filing transfer of reserved limited liability company name, thirty dollars; (3) filing articles of organization, including appointment of statutory agent, sixty dollars; (4) filing change of address of statutory agent or change of statutory agent, twenty-five dollars; (5) filing notice of resignation of statutory agent in duplicate, twenty-five dollars; (6) filing amendment to articles of organization, sixty dollars; (7) filing restated articles of organization, sixty dollars; (8) filing articles of merger or consolidation, thirty dollars; (9) filing articles of dissolution by resolution, twenty-five dollars; (10) filing articles of dissolution by expiration, twenty-five dollars; (11) filing judicial decree of dissolution, twenty-five dollars; (12) filing certificate of reinstatement, sixty dollars; (13) filing application by a foreign limited liability company for certificate of registration to transact business in this state and issuing certificate of registration, sixty dollars; (14) filing application of foreign limited liability company for amended certificate of registration to transact business in this state and issuing amended certificate of registration, sixty dollars; (15) filing application for withdrawal of foreign limited liability company and issuing certificate of withdrawal, sixty dollars; (16) filing an annual report, ten dollars; and (17) filing an interim notice of change of manager or member, ten dollars.

      (b) Miscellaneous charges: (1) At the time of any service of process on the Secretary of the State as statutory agent of a limited liability company, which amount may be recovered as taxable costs by the party to the suit or action causing such service to be made if such party prevails in the suit or action, the plaintiff in the process so served shall pay twenty-five dollars; (2) for preparing and furnishing a copy of any document, instrument or paper filed or recorded relating to a limited liability company: For each copy of each such document thereof regardless of the number of pages, twenty dollars; for affixing his certification thereto, five dollars; (3) for the issuance of a certification of legal existence of a domestic limited liability company, twenty-five dollars; (4) for the issuance of a certificate of legal existence which certificate may reflect any and all changes of limited liability company names and the dates of filing thereof, twenty-five dollars; (5) for the issuance of a certificate of legal existence reflecting articles effecting fundamental changes to articles of organization and the date or dates of filing thereof, fifty dollars; and (6) for other services for which fees are not provided by the general statutes, the Secretary of the State may charge such fees as will in his judgment cover the cost of the services provided.

      (c) The tax imposed under chapter 219 shall not be imposed upon any transaction for which a fee is charged under the provisions of this section.

      (P.A. 93-267, S. 70; P.A. 94-123, S. 7; 94-217, S. 31, 40; P.A. 03-18, S. 62; P.A. 04-240, S. 16.)

      History: P.A. 94-123 amended Subsec. (a)(1) to specify in that fee for filing an application to cancel a reserved limited liability company name shall be $30; P.A. 94-217 deleted Subsec. (a)(9) re fee of $30 for filing articles of abandonment or merger or consolidation, renumbering former Subdivs. (10), (11) and (12) as Subdivs. (9), (10) and (11), respectively, and adding new Subdiv. (12) re fee of $60 for filing a certificate of reinstatement and Subdiv. (16) re fee of $10 for filing an annual report, effective January 1, 1995; P.A. 03-18 amended Subsec. (a)(8) by deleting "per each limited liability company", effective July 1, 2003; P.A. 04-240 added Subsec. (a)(17) re fee for filing interim notice of change of manager or member.