The Office of the Secretary of State shall collect the following fees when the documents described in this section are delivered for filing:

(1) Articles of incorporation, $150;

Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 47-1A-122

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Entity: includes domestic and foreign business corporation. See South Dakota Codified Laws 47-1A-140
  • Proceeding: includes civil suit and criminal, administrative, and investigatory action. See South Dakota Codified Laws 47-1A-140
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.

(2) Application for use of indistinguishable name, $25;

(3) Application for reserved name, $25;

(4) Notice of transfer of reserved name, $15;

(5) Application for registered name, $25;

(6) Application for renewal of registered name, $15. A renewal application may be filed between the first day of October and the thirty-first day of December in each year and shall extend the registration for the following year;

(7) to (9) Repealed by SL 2008, ch 275, § 27;

(10) Articles of domestication, $150;

(11) Articles of charter surrender, $150;

(12) Articles of domestication and conversion, $150;

(13) Articles of entity conversion, $150;

(14) Amendment of articles of incorporation, $60;

(15) Restatement of articles of incorporation, $60;

(16) Articles of merger or share exchange, $60;

(17) Articles of dissolution, $10;

(18) Articles of revocation of dissolution, $10;

(19) Certificate of administrative dissolution, no charge;

(20) Application for reinstatement following administrative dissolution, plus any delinquent annual report filing fees for the period before the reinstatement application, $300;

(21) Certificate of reinstatement, no charge;

(22) Certificate of judicial dissolution, no charge;

(23) Application for certificate of authority, $750;

(24) Application for amended certificate of authority, $250;

(25) Application for certificate of withdrawal, $10;

(26) Application for transfer of authority, $25;

(27) Certificate of revocation of authority to transact business, no charge;

(28) Annual report, $50. Each entity that does not file or refuses to file its annual report within the time prescribed is subject to a penalty of fifty dollars to be assessed by the secretary of state;

(29) Articles of correction, $25;

(30) Application for certificate of existence or authorization, $20;

(31) Amended annual report, $25;

(32) Any other document required or permitted to be filed by this chapter, $20.

The Office of the Secretary of State shall collect a fee of thirty dollars each time process is served on the Office of 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 the party prevails in the proceeding.

Source: SL 2005, ch 239, § 7; SL 2008, ch 275, § 27; SL 2009, ch 4, § 12; SL 2015, ch 258, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 2016; SL 2016, ch 2, § 5.