North Carolina General Statutes 130A-468. Filing of documents with the registry
(a) When the Secretary of State receives a document that may be filed with the registry pursuant to this Article, the Secretary shall create a digital reproduction of that document and enter the reproduced document into the registry database. The Secretary is not required to review a document to ensure that it complies with the particular statutory requirements applicable to the document. Each document entered into the registry database shall be assigned a unique file number and password.
(b) Upon entering the reproduced document into the registry database, the Secretary shall return the original document and a wallet-size card containing the document’s file number and password to the person who submitted the document.
(c) When the Secretary of State receives a revocation of a document that is filed with the registry and that document’s file number and password, or a request to remove that document from the registry without its revocation, the Secretary shall delete that document from the registry database.
(d) The Secretary of State’s entry of a document into, or removal of a document from, the registry database does not do any of the following:
(1) Affect the validity of the document in whole or in part.
Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 130A-468
- following: when used by way of reference to any section of a statute, shall be construed to mean the section next preceding or next following that in which such reference is made; unless when some other section is expressly designated in such reference. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the said district and territories and all dependencies. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
(2) Relate to the accuracy of information contained in the document.
(3) Create a presumption regarding the validity of the document, regarding the accuracy of information contained in the document, or that the statutory requirements for the document have been met. (2001-455, s. 1; 2001-513, s. 30(b); 2007-502, s. 16.)