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Code · Montana · Title 35 — Corporations, Partnerships, and Associations · Chapter 14 · Part 1

35-14-125. Filing duty -- secretary of state.

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35-14-125 . Filing duty -- secretary of state.
(1)If a document delivered to the office of the secretary of state for filing satisfies the requirements of 35-14-120 , the secretary of state shall file it.
(2)The secretary of state files a document by recording it as filed on the date and time of receipt. After filing a document, the secretary of state shall return to the person who delivered the document for filing a copy of the document with an acknowledgment of the date and time of filing.
(3)If the secretary of state refuses to file a document, it must be returned to the person who delivered the document for filing within 10 days after the document was delivered, together with a brief, written explanation of the reason for the refusal.
(4)The secretary of state's duty to file documents under this section is ministerial. The secretary of state's filing or refusing to file a document does not create a presumption that:
(a)the document does or does not conform to the requirements of this chapter; or
(b)the information contained in the document is correct or incorrect.
(5)The secretary of state may correct errors caused by a filing officer. The error and the correction must be retained in the file containing the document in which the error appeared. For the purposes of this subsection, a filing officer is a person employed in a filing office as defined in 30-9A-102 .
(6)The secretary of state shall file a document that otherwise complies with the requirements of 35-14-120 and this section for any entity that originated under the laws of entity formation of a federally recognized Indian tribe.
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