Section 21-208 - Filing duty of Secretary of State(MBCA 1.25)
(a) If a document delivered to the office of the Secretary of State for filing satisfies the requirements of section 21-203, the Secretary of State shall file it.(b) The Secretary of State files a document by recording it as filed on the date and at the time of receipt. After filing a document, except as provided in sections 21-235 and 21-2,211, the Secretary of State shall deliver to the domestic or foreign corporation or its representative a copy of the document with an acknowledgment of the date and time of filing.(c) If the Secretary of State refuses to file a document, it shall be returned to the domestic or foreign corporation or its representative within five days after the document was delivered, together with a brief, written explanation of the reason for refusal.(d) 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: (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; or(3) Create a presumption that the document is valid or invalid or that information contained in the document is correct or incorrect.Added by Laws 2014, LB 749,§ 8, eff. 1/1/2017.