2009 Iowa Code
Title 12 - Business Entities
Subtitle 2 - Business and Professional Corporations and Companies
CHAPTER 490 - BUSINESS CORPORATIONS
490.125 - FILING DUTY OF SECRETARY OF STATE.

        490.125  FILING DUTY OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
         1.  If a document delivered to the office of the secretary of
      state for filing satisfies the requirements of section 490.120, the
      secretary of state shall file it.
         2.  The secretary of state files a document by recording it as
      filed on the date and time of receipt.  After filing a document,
      except the biennial report required by section 490.1622, and except
      as provided in sections 490.503 and 490.1509, the secretary of state
      shall deliver to the domestic or foreign corporation or its
      representative a copy of the document with an acknowledgment of the
      date and time of filing.
         3.  If the secretary of state refuses to file a document, the
      secretary of state shall return it to the domestic or foreign
      corporation or its representative, 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:
         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.  Create a presumption that the document is valid or invalid
      or that information contained in the document is correct or
      incorrect.  

         89 Acts, ch 288, §8; 96 Acts, ch 1170, § 3; 97 Acts, ch 171, § 7;
      2002 Acts, ch 1154, §5, 125