TITLE 14 CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ASSOCIATIONS

Section 3. Nonprofit Corporations, 14-3-101 through 14-3-1703.

ARTICLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS

14-3-125. Duty of Secretary of State to file documents; effect of filing or refusing to do so.

1. If a document delivered to the office of the Secretary of State for filing satisfies the requirements of Code Section 14-3-120, the Secretary of State shall file it.
2. The Secretary of State files a document by stamping or otherwise endorsing his or her official title and the date and time of receipt on both the original and the document copy.After filing a document, except as provided in Code Sections 14-3-503 and 14-3-1510, the Secretary of State shall deliver the document copy to the domestic or foreign corporation or its representative.
3. If the Secretary of State refuses to file a document, he or she shall return it to the domestic or foreign corporation or its representative within ten days after the document was delivered, together with a brief, written explanation of the reason for his or her refusal.
4. The Secretary of State's duty to file documents under this Code section is ministerial. Filing or refusing to file a document does not:
   1. Affect the validity or invalidity of the document in whole or in 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.

(Code 1981, §14-3-125, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 465, § 1; Ga. L. 2004, p. 508, §§ 66, 68.)