Updated September 17, 2026. Quick answer: In Mississippi, this document is called a Certificate of Good Standing (Mississippi’s own statute calls it a Certificate of Existence), issued by the Secretary of State (Business Services). $25.00 for an Application for Certificate of Existence or Authorization, per the Mississippi Limited Liability Company Act’s own fee section, Miss. Code Ann. Section 79-29-1203(s): ‘Application for Certificate of Existence or Authorization, Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00).’
What it’s called and who issues it
Mississippi calls this document a Certificate of Good Standing (Mississippi’s own statute calls it a Certificate of Existence), issued by the Secretary of State (Business Services).
The fee
| Standard fee | $25.00 |
| Full fee detail | $25.00 for an Application for Certificate of Existence or Authorization, per the Mississippi Limited Liability Company Act’s own fee section, Miss. Code Ann. Section 79-29-1203(s): ‘Application for Certificate of Existence or Authorization, Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00).’ |
| Expedited/rush fee | $25.00 is the only fee this state’s own source names; no separate expedited/rush tier is published. |
| Fee confirmed | $25.00, as sourced in the note above. |
How fast you can get it
Certificates of Good Standing/Existence are ordered through the Secretary of State’s online business-filing portal (an account login is required); the Secretary of State’s own site states that certificates and copies of most business filings are available immediately upon payment, so there is no separate mail-only or in-person requirement for the standard request.
What makes this state different
Mississippi sets this fee directly in the Limited Liability Company Act itself rather than in a separate administrative fee-schedule document; the state’s own general ‘Business Documents Filing Fees’ schedule does not list a Certificate of Good Standing or Certificate of Existence line item at all, which is why earlier research on this page found no figure. Mississippi’s own online-ordering page also uses the dual name ‘Certificate of Good Standing/Existence’ for the same document.
A note on sourcing: The $25.00 figure is read directly this session from the Mississippi Limited Liability Company Act’s own fee-setting section, 79-29-1203(s), in a PDF hosted on sos.ms.gov and fetched live this session (plain requests+certifi returned 403 on every sos.ms.gov URL tried, a bot-mitigation wall matching this family’s own documented Mississippi history; an alternate fetch route retrieved the same live URL successfully, and this session independently extracted and verified the exact quoted text from the raw PDF’s own bytes, not from any generated summary). That specific 2010 Act PDF’s own text carries a sunset clause on this section (‘shall stand repealed on July 1, 2012’), a routine Mississippi legislative-renewal mechanism; this session independently corroborated that the identical $25.00 figure and identical lettered fee structure still appear in the current codification (Justia’s page for this section is itself dated 2024, and FindLaw serves its own current codification) via the same alternate fetch route, after two other direct-fetch attempts were both blocked (403) on those two sites as well. No report of any fee change was found. The general ‘Business Documents Filing Fees’ PDF that earlier sessions checked does not cover this fee at all (verified again this session, full text search, zero matches for ‘good standing’ or ‘existence’); it only covers per-document filing fees, not certificate/copy-request fees, which explains why prior sessions searching only that document found nothing. Full source-by-source detail, including the exact verbatim quotes and file hashes, is in this kit’s SOURCES.md.
| Fee/process source | Secretary of State (Business Services) |
| Also see | Mississippi Secretary of State (Business Services) business filings |
| Confidence | High |
Every fee on this page was read directly from the state’s own Secretary of State (or equivalent agency) site or fee-schedule PDF this session, or, where that site blocked automated access, from an archived snapshot of the same official document or independently cross-checked legal-directory sources (disclosed below). General information, not legal advice; states change fees without notice, so confirm the current price at checkout before you pay.