PRINTER'S NO. 1611
No. 1302 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY VEON AND DeWEESE, MAY 5, 2003
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, MAY 5, 2003
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 15 (Corporations and Unincorporated Associations)
2 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing
3 for fee schedule and for disposition of funds.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Sections 153(a) and 155(a) of Title 15 of the
7 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
8 § 153. Fee schedule.
9 (a) General rule.--The fees of the Corporation Bureau of the
10 department, including fees for the public acts and transactions
11 of the Secretary of the Commonwealth administered through the
12 bureau, shall be as follows:
13 (1) Domestic corporations:
14 (i) Articles of incorporation, letters
15 patent or like instrument incorporating a
16 corporation or association................. $ [100] 125
17 (ii) Articles or agreement or like
18 instrument of merger, consolidation or
1 division................................... [52] 70
2 (iii) Additional fee for each
3 association which is a party to a merger or
4 consolidation.............................. [28] 40
5 (iv) Additional fee for each new
6 corporation resulting from a division...... [100] 125
7 (v) Articles of conversion or like
8 instrument................................. [52] 70
9 (vi) Each ancillary transaction....... [52] 70
10 (2) Foreign corporations:
11 (i) Certificates of authority or like
12 qualification to do business............... [180] 250
13 (ii) Amended certificate of authority
14 or like change in qualification to do
15 business................................... [180] 250
16 (iii) Domestication................... [100] 125
17 (iv) Statement of merger or
18 consolidation or like instrument reporting
19 occurrence of merger or consolidation not
20 effected by a filing in the department..... [52] 70
21 (v) Additional fee for each qualified
22 foreign corporation which is named in a
23 statement of merger or consolidation or
24 like instrument............................ [28] 40
25 (vi) Each ancillary transaction....... [52] 70
26 (3) Partnerships and limited liability
27 companies:
28 (i) Certificate of limited partnership
29 or certificate of organization of a limited
30 liability company or like instrument
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1 forming a limited partnership or organizing
2 a limited liability company................ [100] 125
3 (ii) Certificate of merger or
4 consolidation.............................. [52] 70
5 (iii) Additional fee for each
6 association which is a party to the merger
7 or consolidation........................... [28] 40
8 (iv) Application for registration of
9 foreign limited partnership or limited
10 liability company.......................... [180] 250
11 (v) Certificate of amendment of
12 registration of foreign limited partnership
13 or limited liability company............... [180] 250
14 (vi) Statement of registration of
15 registered limited liability partnership or
16 statement of election as an electing
17 partnership................................ [100] 125
18 (vii) Domestication of foreign limited
19 liability company.......................... [100] 125
20 (viii) Additional fee for each new
21 entity resulting from a division........... [100] 125
22 (ix) Each ancillary transaction....... [52] 70
23 (4) Business trusts:
24 (i) Deed of trust or other initial
25 instrument for a business trust............ [100] 125
26 (ii) Each ancillary transaction....... [52] 70
27 (5) Fictitious names:
28 (i) Registration...................... [52] 70
29 (ii) Each ancillary transaction....... [52] 70
30 (6) Service of process:
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1 (i) Each defendant named or served.... [52] 70
2 (7) Trademarks, emblems, union labels,
3 description of bottles and like matters:
4 (i) Trademark registration............ [25] 50
5 (ii) Each ancillary trademark
6 transaction................................ [25] 50
7 (iii) Any other registration under
8 this paragraph............................. [52] 70
9 (iv) Any other ancillary transaction
10 under this paragraph....................... [52] 70
11 (8) Uniform Commercial Code
12 As provided in 13 Pa.C.S. § 9525 (relating
13 to fees).
14 (9) Copy fees (including copies furnished
15 by filing officers under the Uniform Commercial
16 Code):
17 (i) Each page of photocopy furnished.. [2] 3
18 (10) Certification fees:
19 (i) For certifying copies of any
20 document or paper on file, the fee
21 specified in paragraph (9), if the
22 department furnished the copy, plus........ [28] 40
23 (ii) For certifying a duplicate copy
24 of a document pursuant to section 136(b)(2)
25 (relating to immediate certified copy) or,
26 if that certification cannot be made at the
27 time of original examination, for the
28 original examination and rejection by the
29 bureau of a document submitted under that
30 procedure, plus an additional fee for each
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1 reexamination or certification, as the case
2 may be, by the bureau of a previously
3 rejected document submitted under that
4 procedure.................................. [52] 70
5 (iii) For issuing any other
6 certificate of the Secretary of the
7 Commonwealth or the Department of State
8 (other than an engrossed certificate)...... [28] 40
9 (11) Report of record search (other than
10 search under paragraph (8)):
11 (i) For preparing and providing a
12 written or photocopy, or both, report of a
13 record search, the fee specified in
14 paragraph (9), if any, plus................ [12] 15
15 (12) Reservation and registration of
16 names:
17 (i) Reservation of association name... [52] 70
18 (ii) Registration of foreign or other
19 corporation name........................... [52] 70
20 (13) Change of registered office by agent:
21 (i) Each statement of change of
22 registered office by agent................. [4] 5
23 (14) Contingent domestication:
24 (i) Statement of contingent
25 domestication.............................. [100] 125
26 (ii) Each year, or portion thereof,
27 during which a contingent domestication or
28 temporary domiciliary status is in effect.. [1,200] 1,500
29 * * *
30 § 155. Disposition of funds.
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1 (a) Establishment of restricted account.--There is hereby
2 established in the General Fund a restricted account to be known
3 as the Corporation Bureau Restricted Account. This account shall
4 receive 30% of the amount received by the department under this
5 subchapter except for the fees collected under 13 Pa.C.S. §
6 9525(a)(1)(ii) (relating to fees). This account shall receive 5%
7 of the amount received by the department under section
8 9525(a)(1)(ii). The balance of the amount received by the
9 department under this subchapter shall be deposited in the
10 General Fund. Funds in the Corporation Bureau Restricted Account
11 shall be used solely for the operation of the Corporation Bureau
12 in the Department of State and for its modernization as may be
13 required for improved operations of the bureau[.] unless a
14 surplus arises after two consecutive years, at which time the
15 Secretary of State shall transfer any amount in excess of the
16 bureau's budget into the General Fund. The Secretary of State
17 shall transfer $5,000,000 from the account to the General Fund
18 in fiscal year 2003-2004.
19 * * *
20 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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