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Title 14. CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ASSOCIATIONS · Chapter 2. BUSINESS CORPORATIONS · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS · Part 2. FILING DOCUMENTS

14-2-122. Filing fees and penalties.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. The Secretary of State shall collect the following fees and penalties when the documents described in this Code section are delivered to him or her for filing:

  2. Document Fee

  3. (1)

    Articles of incorporation ....................................$ 100.00#

  4. (2)

    Application for certificate of authority ................... 225.00#

  5. (3)

    Annual registration ......................................... 50.00#

  6. (4)

    Penalty for late filing of annual registration ........... 25.00 Document Fee#

  7. (5)

    Agent’s statement of resignation ......................... No fee#

  8. (6)

    Certificate of judicial dissolution ......................... No fee#

  9. (7)

    Articles of dissolution or intent to dissolve ............. No fee#

  10. (8)

    Application of withdrawal .................................. No fee#

  11. (9)

    Application for reservation of a corporate name ...... 25.00#

  12. (10)

    Civil penalty for a foreign corporation transacting#

    1. business in this state without a certificate of au-

    2. thority ....................................................... 500.00

  13. (11)

    Statement of change of address of registered agent#

    1. .... $5.00 per corporation but not less than ......... 20.00

  14. (12)

    Application for reinstatement ............................ 250.00#

  15. (13)

    Certificate of conversion .................................. 95.00#

  16. (14)

    Any other document required or permitted to be filed#

    1. by this chapter ............................................ 20.00

Reading note: the printed indentation of one or more subsections was ambiguous, so their nesting is the extractor's best reading. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 14-2-122, enacted by Ga. L. 1988, p. 1070, § 1; Ga. L. 1989, p. 946, § 3; Ga. L. 1997, p. 1165, § 1; Ga. L. 2002, p. 989, § 2; Ga. L. 2003, p. 883, § 1; Ga. L. 2007, p. 455, § 1/SB 234; Ga. L. 2008, p. 253, § 1/SB 436; Ga. L. 2010, p. 9, § 1-34/HB 1055; Ga. L. 2011, p. 430, § 1/SB 64.

Law reviews

For survey article on business associations, see 60 Mercer L. Rev. 35 (2008). For note, ‘‘Skimming from the 2%: The Status of Georgia’s Restrictions on Shareholder Access to Corporate Information,’’ 46 Ga. L. Rev. 835 (2012).

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t14-(v12)-2017-pdf.pdf, Volume V12, 2017 edition, pages 24 to 25; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 f2fad2b71b39.