New York Laws
Article 6 - Department of State
96 - Fees and Refunds.

(b) For filing under the business corporation law and the
not-for-profit corporation law as set forth in those chapters.
10. For service of process on the secretary of state, acting as agent
for a third party pursuant to law, except as otherwise specifically
provided by law, forty dollars. No fee shall be collected for process
served on behalf of a county, city, town or village or other political
subdivision of the state. The fees paid the secretary of state shall be
a taxable disbursement.
11. (a) For the special handling of requests made to the division of
corporations of the department of state for any service for which a fee
is collected as prescribed by law, twenty-five dollars. For the purposes
of this section the term "special handling" shall mean the completion of
the request within twenty-four hours of receipt of the request, except

in those cases where the twenty-four hour period shall end on a
Saturday, Sunday, holiday or day on which the division of corporations
of the department of state is not open for business, in which case the
twenty-four hour period shall be extended to the appropriate hour of the
next succeeding business day on which such division is open for
business.
(b) For the same day expedited handling of requests made to the
division of corporations of the department of state for any service for
which a fee is collected as prescribed by law, seventy-five dollars. For
the purposes of this section the term "same day expedited handling"
shall mean the completion of the request on the same day as the day of
request.
(c) For the two hour priority handling of requests made to the
division of corporations of the department of state for any service for
which a fee is collected as prescribed by law, one hundred fifty
dollars. For the purposes of this section the term "two hour priority
handling" shall mean the completion of the request within two hours on
the same day as the day of the request.
(d) For handling of non-expedited requests made to the division of
corporations of the department of state for any service for which a fee
is collected as prescribed by law, the completion of such request shall
be accomplished within seven business days.
12. For the filing, recording or registering of any certificate,
notice or other paper required to be filed, recorded or registered, the
fee for which is not otherwise prescribed by law, twenty-five dollars.
13. Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, the department
of state may refund, within three years from the date of payment and
upon audit of the state comptroller, any fee or portion of a fee paid
pursuant to any of the statutes which the department is charged by law
to administer, in any case in which:
a. the license, permit, or certificate applied for is not issued, or
does not take effect, or
b. the filing or certification requested is not made, or
c. the service requested is not rendered, or
d. the payment made is in excess of the amount prescribed by such
statute, or
e. the licensee has entered the active armed services of the United
States in which event the refund shall be such proportion of the license
fee paid as the number of full months remaining unexpired of the license
period bears to the total number of months in such period.
14. No fee shall be collected for copies of records furnished to state
officers as defined in the public officers law, section two, for use in
their official capacity.
15. The department of state shall on or before the tenth day of each
month, out of the moneys collected during the preceding month pursuant
to subdivision nine of this section, pay over to each county clerk in
whose office a certified copy of a corporation certificate or other
instrument relating to a domestic or foreign corporation shall have been
filed by the department during the preceding month pursuant to law the
sum of six dollars for each such copy of a corporation certificate or
other instrument for which the department shall have collected a filing
fee of thirty dollars or more, and the sum of one dollar for each such
copy of a corporation certificate or other instrument for which the
department shall have collected a sum of less than thirty dollars, and
such payment shall be received by the county clerk in full satisfaction
of all fees for filing such copy, any other general or special law to
the contrary notwithstanding. All such moneys remaining after such

payments to the county clerks shall be paid pursuant to section one
hundred twenty-one of the state finance law.
16. Consistent with the provisions of the corporate laws of the state
of New York, the department of state shall produce or reproduce the
content of any informational systems maintained pursuant to such laws.
The secretary of state shall establish the type and amount of the
reasonable fees to be collected by the department of state for such
informational systems. Such fees shall be subject to approval of the
director of the budget and shall be promulgated in the official rules
and regulations of the department of state in accordance with the
provisions of the state administrative procedure act.

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