• Explanation of service fees
  Regular Service Fee: It may take 8 weeks to receive your confirmation.  Expedited Service Fees: Requests will be responded to within 7 business days for faxes and mail. Faxed request are available for MasterCard and Visa card holders only.  For your convenience use the Charter Fax Cover Sheet.
  
  
• Documents hand-delivered in limited quantities receive same day service between 8:30 am and 4:30 pm. Hand-delivered transactions are to be paid by check, cash or money order. There is an expedited fee for same day service for document processing.
  
  
• Return Mail Processing Fee
  This is the fee to have the original Charter document returned to you.
  
  
• Document Return Fee
  All filers of business entity charter documents must indicate at the time of filing if they are “opting out” of having their original filed documents returned to them. If a filer wishes to have the original documents returned, then he or she must pay an additional $5.00 filing fee with the payment of the other fees for the processing of the documents. If the $5.00 fee is not paid, the Department will assume the filer did not want the original documents returned. Images of all documents are available at no charge for viewing and printing within 7 business days of their processing by searching the Business database.
  
  
• Rejected Corporate Charter Documents
  Please note that under *Maryland law a filer has sixty (60) days from the date of our initial rejection of a filing to correct any rejected document and resubmit it or all filing fees are retained by the Department for reviewing the first filing. If a document is resubmitted after the sixtieth day, another separate filing fee must be paid with the second submission. If a filer chooses not to resubmit the document for filing, a demand for a refund must be made in writing within sixty (60) days of the date of the initial rejection of the document.
  

Documents preceded by ** may require Certificates of Conveyance. The fee for each certificate is $25.00, plus the $5.00 Return Mail Processing fee. Call the Department at (410) 767-1340 for further information as to whether these certificates apply to a particular transaction.


Make checks payable to: State Department of Assessments and Taxation

Mail to:
State Department of Assessments and Taxation
Corporate Charter Division
301 W. Preston St. Room 801
Baltimore, MD 21201
Telephone: 410-767-1340
Fax 410-333-7097
For your convenience use the Charter Fax Cover Sheet.

For a complete listing of the fee charges for each type of transaction, you can obtain a pamphlet from the Department.
Contact the Charter Division at 410-767-1340.