§414-16 Filing duty of department director.

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(a)If a document delivered to the department director for filing satisfies the requirements of section 414-11, the department director shall file it.

(b)The department director files a document by stamping or otherwise endorsing the document including the date and time of receipt.

(c)If the department director refuses to file a document, the department director shall return it to the domestic or foreign corporation or its representative together with a brief, written explanation of the reason for the department director's refusal.

(d)The department director's duty to file documents under this section is ministerial. The department director's filing or refusing to file a document does not:

(1)Affect the validity or invalidity of the document in whole or part;

(2)Relate to the correctness or incorrectness of information contained in the document; and

(3)Create a presumption that the document is valid or invalid or that information contained in the document is correct or incorrect. [L 2000, c 244, pt of §1; am L 2001, c 129, §12]