§18-2012. Articles of correction.
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A. If any document filed with the Office of the Secretary of State under Section 2000 et seq. of this title is an inaccurate record of the action referred to or was defectively or erroneously executed, the document may be corrected by the filing of articles of correction.
B. Articles of correction shall set forth:
1. The title of the document being corrected;
2. The date that the document being corrected was filed; and
3. The provision in the document as previously filed and as corrected and, if execution of the document was defective, the manner in which it was defective.
C. Articles of correction may not make any other change or amendment which would not have complied in all respects with the requirements of the Oklahoma Limited Liability Company Act at the time the document being corrected was filed.
D. Articles of correction shall be executed in the same manner in which the document being corrected was required to be executed.
E. Articles of correction may not:
1. Change the effective date of the document being corrected; or
2. Affect any right or liability accrued or incurred before its filing, except that any right or liability accrued or incurred by reason of the error or defect being corrected shall be extinguished by the filing if the person having the right has not detrimentally relied on the original document.
F. Notwithstanding that any instrument authorized to be filed with the Secretary of State pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Limited Liability Company Act is, when filed inaccurately, defectively, or erroneously executed, sealed or acknowledged, or otherwise defective in any respect, the Secretary of State shall not be liable to any person for the preclearance for filing, or the filing and indexing of the instrument by the Secretary of State.
G. In lieu of filing articles of correction, a document may be corrected by filing with the Secretary of State a corrected document which shall be executed and filed as if the corrected document were the document being corrected, and a fee equal to the fee payable to the Secretary of State for articles of correction as prescribed by Section 2055 of this title shall be paid to the Secretary of State. The corrected document shall be specifically designated as such in its heading, shall specify the inaccuracy or defect to be corrected, and shall set forth the entire document in corrected form.
A document corrected in accordance with this section shall be effective as of the date the original document was filed, except as to those persons who are substantially and adversely affected by the correction and as to those persons the document as corrected shall be effective from the filing date. Added by Laws 1992, c. 148, § 13, eff. Sept. 1, 1992. Amended by Laws 1999, c. 421, § 27, eff. Nov. 1, 1999; Laws 2024, c. 121, § 7, eff. Nov. 1, 2024.