Tennessee Code Title 43. Agriculture and Horticulture § 43-38-1103

(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:

(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.