Maryland Corporations and Associations Section 1-202

      When the Department accepts for record any charter document or any document designating or changing the name or address of a resident agent or principal office of a Maryland corporation, the Department shall:

            (1)      Endorse on the document its acceptance for record and the date and time of acceptance;

            (2)      Record promptly the document with its corporate records; and

            (3)      (i)      Send an acknowledgment to the corporation, its attorney, or its agent stating the date and time that the document was accepted for record; and

                  (ii)      Unless the corporation, its attorney, or its agent at the time of filing declines the return, return the document on payment of the fee provided in § 1-203(b)(10) of this subtitle.