If a document delivered to the Office of the Secretary of State for filing satisfies the requirements of §§ 47-1A-120 to 47-1A-120.3, inclusive, the Office of the Secretary of State shall file it. The Office of the Secretary of State files a document by recording it as filed on the date and time of receipt. After filing a document, the Office of the Secretary of State shall deliver to the domestic or foreign corporation or its representative a receipt with an acknowledgment of the date and time of filing.
If the Office of the Secretary of State refuses to file a document, the Office of the Secretary of State shall return it to the domestic or foreign corporation or its representative within five days after the document was delivered, together with a brief, written explanation of the reason for the refusal.
The Office of the Secretary of State's duty to file documents under this section is ministerial. The Office of the Secretary of State's filing or refusing to file a document does not:
(1) Affect the validity or invalidity of the document in whole or part;
(2) Relate to the correctness or incorrectness of information contained in the document; or
(3) Create a presumption that the document is valid or invalid or that information contained in the document is correct or incorrect.