Section 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.Amended by Laws 2023, Ch. 568,Sec. 2, eff. 5/18/2023.Added by Laws 2019, Ch. 271,Sec. 8, eff. 6/1/2020.