2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 34 - Limited Partnerships, Partnerships, Professional Associations, Limited Liability Companies and Statutory Trusts
Chapter 613 - Limited Liability Companies
Section 34-110 - Filing of documents.

(a) The original signed copy of the articles of organization or any other document required to be filed pursuant to sections 34-100 to 34-242, inclusive, shall be delivered to the Secretary of the State. The articles of organization or any other document required to be filed shall be typewritten or printed or, if electronically transmitted, in a format that can be retrieved or reproduced in typewritten or printed form. Unless the Secretary of the State determines that the document does not conform to the filing provisions of said sections, the Secretary of the State shall, when all required filing fees have been paid: (1) Endorse on each signed document “filed” and the date and time of its acceptance for filing; and (2) retain the signed document in the Secretary of the State’s files.

(b) When any document is required or permitted to be filed or recorded as provided in sections 34-100 to 34-242, inclusive, the Secretary of the State may, in the Secretary of the State’s discretion, for good cause, permit a photostatic or other photographic copy of such document to be filed or recorded in lieu of the original instrument. Such filing or recording shall have the same force and effect as if the original instrument had been so filed or recorded.

(c) The Secretary of the State may require or permit the filing by electronic transmission or by employing new technology as it is developed of any document that is required by law or regulation under sections 34-100 to 34-242, inclusive, to be filed with the Secretary of the State.

(d) If the Secretary of the State determines that the document does not conform to the filing provisions of sections 34-100 to 34-242, inclusive, or is not accompanied by all fees required by law, the document shall not be filed and the Secretary of the State shall return the document to the person originally submitting it.

(P.A. 93-267, S. 14; P.A. 94-217, S. 39; P.A. 01-188, S. 2; P.A. 11-146, S. 11.)

History: P.A. 94-217 made technical changes and amended Subsec. (a) to make the secretary’s duties apply with respect to any document that is filed, not just the articles of organization; P.A. 01-188 amended Subsec. (a) to add provision requiring the articles of organization or any other document required to be filed to be typewritten or printed or, if authorized by the Secretary of the State, electronically transmitted, replace “signed original of the document” and “signed original” with “signed document” and make technical changes for purposes of gender neutrality and add new Subsec. (b) authorizing the Secretary of the State for good cause to permit the filing or recording of a photostatic or other photographic copy of a document in lieu of the original instrument and providing that such filing or recording shall have the same force and effect as if the original instrument had been so filed or recorded, redesignating former Subsec. (b) as Subsec. (c); P.A. 11-146 amended Subsec. (a) to replace “or, if authorized by the Secretary of the State, electronically transmitted” with “or, if electronically transmitted, in a format that can be retrieved or reproduced in typewritten or printed form”, added new Subsec. (c) re authority of Secretary of the State to require or permit filing by electronic transmission or by employing new technology as it is developed of any document required to be filed with said Secretary and redesignated existing Subsec. (c) as Subsec. (d), effective January 1, 2012.