{"data":{"id":"us-mt/35-14-125","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"35-14-125","heading":"Filing duty -- secretary of state.","body":"(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.\n(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.\n(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.\n(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:\n(a) the document does or does not conform to the requirements of this chapter; or\n(b) the information contained in the document is correct or incorrect.\n(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.\n(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.","path":["TITLE 35. CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ASSOCIATIONS","CHAPTER 14. MONTANA BUSINESS CORPORATION ACT","Part 1. General Provisions"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0350/chapter_0140/part_0010/section_0250/0350-0140-0010-0250.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:53:25Z","sha256":"f8968e3526b96c10a570e5ca3e465615874caed2a7388cb51c35ace9f6288ff0","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/35-14-124","next":"us-mt/35-14-126"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}