Iowa Code 489.209 – Correcting filed record
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1. A person on whose behalf a filed record was delivered to the secretary of state for filing may correct the record if any of the following apply:
a. The record at the time of filing was inaccurate.
b. The record was defectively signed.
c. The electronic transmission of the record to the secretary of state was defective.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 489.209
- Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Iowa Code 489.102
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Person: includes a protected series, however denominated, of an entity if the protected series is established under law that limits, or limits if conditions specified under law are satisfied, the ability of a creditor of the entity or of any other protected series of the entity to satisfy a claim from assets of the protected series. See Iowa Code 489.102
- State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Iowa Code 489.102
2. To correct a filed record, a person on whose behalf the record was delivered to the secretary of state must deliver to the secretary of state for filing a statement of correction.
3. A statement of correction shall comply with all of the following:
a. It must not state a delayed effective date.
b. It must be signed by the person correcting the filed record.
c. It must describe the record to be corrected including its filing date or attach a copy of the record as filed.
d. It must specify the inaccuracy or defect to be corrected.
e. It must correct the inaccuracy or defect.
4. A statement of correction is effective as of the effective date of the filed record that it corrects except for purposes of section 489.103, subsection 4, and as to persons relying on the uncorrected filed record and adversely affected by the correction. For those purposes and as to those persons, the statement of correction is effective when filed.