Filing, service, and copying fees.
S.C. Code Ann. § 33-1-220
in effect(a) The Secretary of State shall collect the following fees when the documents described in this subsection are delivered to him for filing: (b) The Secretary of State shall collect a fee of ten dollars each time process is served on him under Chapters 1 through 20 of this Title. The party to a proceeding causing service of process is entitled to recover this fee as costs if he prevails in the proceeding. (c) The Secretary of State shall collect the following fees for copying and certifying the copy of any filed document relating to a domestic or foreign corporation: (1) for copying, one dollar for the first page and fifty cents for each additional page; and (2) two dollars for the certificate. (d) Before filing any of the following documents, the Secretary of State shall collect the following taxes that must be remitted to the State Treasurer for use of the State: (1) articles of incorporation, one hundred dollars plus the minimum license fee imposed pursuant to Chapter 19 of Title 12; (2) amendment to articles of incorporation, one hundred dollars; (3) articles of merger or share exchange, one hundred dollars; (4) application by a foreign corporation for a certificate of authority to do business in South Carolina, one hundred dollars plus the minimum license fee imposed pursuant to Chapter 19 of Title 12; (5) amendment by a foreign corporation of its certificate of authority, one hundred dollars; (6) articles of conversion pursuant to either Section 33-11-111 or Section 33-11-113, one hundred dollars; (7) articles of domestication pursuant to Section 33-9-100, one hundred dollars.
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