§ 17-30-305 — Delivery to and filing of records by secretary of state; effective time and date

(a) A record authorized or required to be delivered to the
secretary of state for filing under this act shall be captioned
to describe the purpose of the record and be delivered to the
secretary of state in an authorized medium. The secretary of
state shall file the record upon receipt, unless:
(i) The secretary of state determines that a record
does not comply with the filing requirements of this act;
(ii) The filing fees required by this act or other
provisions of law or past due fees, taxes or penalties have not
been paid.
(b) Upon filing the record, the secretary of state shall
send a copy of the filed record and a receipt for fees to the
person on whose behalf the record was filed.
(c) Upon request and payment of the requisite fee, the
secretary of state shall send to the requester a certified copy
of a requested record.
(d) Except as otherwise provided in this section and W.S.
17-28-103, a record delivered to the secretary of state for
filing under this act shall be effective as of the date of
filing by the secretary of state.
(e) If the secretary of state refuses to file a record
under subsection (a) of this section, the secretary of state
shall return it to the filing party or its representative within
fifteen (15) days after the record was delivered, together with
a brief, written explanation of the reason for the refusal.