Iowa Code § 490.125
Filing duty of secretary of state
Iowa · Iowa Code Chapter 490 — Business Corporations · Status: effective
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- Iowa Code § 490.125, Filing duty of secretary of state, Iowa, version 1 as recorded 2026-10-03, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/2257899
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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 490.1621, and except as provided in section 490.503, the secretary of state shall return to the person who delivered the document for filing 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, it shall be returned to the person who delivered the document for filing within five days after the document was delivered, 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. The secretary of state’s filing or refusing to file a document does not create a presumption of any of the following:
a. The document does or does not conform to the requirements of this chapter.
b. The information contained in the document is correct or incorrect.