PRINTER'S NO. 2094
No. 1478 Session of 1998
INTRODUCED BY GREENLEAF, HOLL, AFFLERBACH, EARLL AND LEMMOND,
JUNE 12, 1998
REFERRED TO BANKING AND INSURANCE, JUNE 12, 1998
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 15 (Corporations and Unincorporated Associations)
2 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing
3 for fees.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 153(a)(8) of Title 15 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 153. Fee schedule.
9 (a) General rule.--The fees of the Corporation Bureau of the
10 Department of State, including fees for the public acts and
11 transactions of the Secretary of the Commonwealth administered
12 through the bureau, and of county filing officers under Title 13
13 (relating to commercial code), shall be as follows:
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15 (8) Uniform Commercial Code:
16 (i) Financing statement - per debtor
17 name:
18 (A) State fee..................... 12
1 (B) County fee.................... 48
2 (ii) Each ancillary transaction:
3 (A) State fee..................... 12
4 (B) County fee.................... 48
5 (iii) Search - per debtor name:
6 (A) State fee..................... 12
7 (B) County fee.................... 48
8 (iv) Additional fee for each financing
9 statement found and for each statement of
10 assignment reported therein:
11 (A) State fee..................... 1
12 (B) County fee.................... 4
13 (v) For each financing statement or
14 ancillary transaction not filed on standard
15 forms approved by the Department of State,
16 in addition to the fee provided above,
17 there shall be charged a per filing fee of:
18 (A) State fee..................... 28
19 (B) County fee.................... 112
20 (vi) Seventy-five percent of the
21 county fees collected pursuant to
22 subparagraphs (i) through (v) shall be
23 payable to the Commonwealth and shall be
24 deposited in the General Fund.
25 (vii) Beginning on January 1, 1994,
26 and each January 1 thereafter, the county
27 fees under paragraph (8) shall be increased
28 by the percentage of increase in the
29 Consumer Price Index for Urban Workers for
30 the immediate preceding calendar year which
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1 shall be published in the Pennsylvania
2 Bulletin annually by the Supreme Court on
3 or before the preceding November 30. This
4 subparagraph shall expire January 1, 2001.
5 (viii) Notwithstanding the provisions
6 of this paragraph, the fee for a financing
7 statement, ancillary transaction or search
8 for transactions involving only consumer
9 goods as defined in 13 Pa.C.S. § 9109
10 (relating to classification of goods:
11 "consumer goods"; "equipment"; "farm
12 products"; "inventory") shall be $12.
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14 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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