The Secretary of State may charge fees for filing financing statements under the Uniform Commercial Code. The fee is $60 if the financing statement is in connection with a public-finance transaction, manufactured-home transaction, or the debtor is a transmitting utility. The fee for filing, indexing, and furnishing filing data about a statement of master assignment or amendment is $500 plus 50 cents for each financing statement covered by the master statement in excess of 50. All other financing statement filing fees are $15 if two pages or less and $30 if three pages or more. Fee is $5 for filing online.

Filing and indexing a utility security instrument, a utility security instrument amendment or a name change, merger, or consolidation is $25.

Information requests from the Secretary of State on these filings is $15.

Secretary of State collects $25 for indexing and filing each business assumed name certificate and $10 for each statement of abandonment of use of an assumed name.

Fees associated with registering trademarks and service marks (application fee, renewal fee, recording fee) are set by Secretary of State.

When service is rendered. Trademarks renewed each 5 years.

Amended by S.B. 1022, 67th, Leg. R.S. effective 8-31-81

Financing statement filing rates amended by S.B. 989 and S.B. 661, 68th Leg., R.S.

Amended by H.B. 2241, 70th Leg., R.S.

Security instrument filing fees amended by S.B. 869, 71st Leg., R.S.

Trademark registration fees added by H.B. 2569, 75th Leg., R.S.

Electronic filing fee added by S.B. 479, 76th Leg., R.S.

S.B. 1058, 76th Leg., R.S. moved Uniform Commercial Code fees under 9.525.

H.B. 2278, 80th Leg., R.S. repealed Business and Commerce Code Chapters 35 and 36 and recodified security instrument filing fees under Ch. 261 and Ch. 71 respectively.

Trademark fee citations changed from 16.10 and 16.19 to 16.052, trademark renewal changed from 10 to 5 years, and transfer fee removed by H.B. 3141, 82nd Leg., R.S.