§ 486A.1205 — Filing duty of secretary of state

Iowa § 486A.1205

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title XII: BUSINESS ENTITIES
• Ch. 486A: UNIFORM PARTNERSHIP ACT

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1. If a document delivered to the office of the secretary of state for filing satisfies the
requirements of section 486A.1201, the secretary of state shall file it and issue any necessary
certificate.
2. The secretary of state files a document by stamping or otherwise endorsing “filed”,
together with the secretary of state’s name and official title and the date and time of receipt,
on both the document and the receipt for the filing fee. After filing a document, and except
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as provided in sections 486A.304 and 486A.1213, the secretary of state shall deliver the
document, with the filing fee receipt, or acknowledgment of receipt if no fee is required,
attached, to the domestic or foreign partnership or its representative.
3. Ifthesecretaryofstaterefusestofileadocument, thesecretaryofstateshallreturnitto
the domestic or foreign partnership or its representative within ten days after the document
was received by the secretary of state, 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. Filing
or refusing to file a document does not do any of the following:
a. Affect the validity or invalidity of the document in whole or part.
b. Relate to the correctness or incorrectness of information contained in the document.
c. Createapresumptionthatthedocumentisvalidorinvalidorthatinformationcontained
in the document is correct or incorrect.