§ 17-19-125 — Filing duty of secretary of state

(a) If a document delivered to the office of the secretary
of state for filing satisfies the requirements of W.S.
17-19-120, the secretary of state shall file it.
(b) The secretary of state files a document by stamping or
otherwise endorsing "Filed," together with his name and official
title and the date and the time of filing, on both the original
and copy of the document and on the receipt for the filing fee.
After filing a document, except as provided in W.S. 17-28-103,
the secretary of state shall deliver the document copy, with the
filing fee receipt (or acknowledgment of receipt if no fee is
required) attached, to the domestic or foreign corporation or
its representative. The secretary of state, in his discretion,
may issue a certificate evidencing the filing of a document upon
the payment of the requisite fee.
(c) If the secretary of state refuses to file a document
he shall return it to the domestic or foreign corporation or its
representative within fifteen (15) days after the document was
delivered, together with a brief, written explanation of the
reason or reasons for his refusal.
(d) The secretary of state's duty to file documents under
this section is ministerial. Filing or refusal to file a
document does not:
(i) Affect the validity or invalidity of the document
in whole or in part;
(ii) Relate to the correctness or incorrectness of
information contained in the document; or
(iii) Create a presumption that the document is valid
or invalid or that information contained in the document is
correct or incorrect.