Montana § 35-14-125 - Filing Duty -- Secretary Of State
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§ 35-14-125. Filing Duty -- Secretary Of State
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.
Source: official Montana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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