The secretary of state’s duty to file documents under this chapter is ministerial. His filing or refusing to file a document does not:

(1) Affect the validity or invalidity of the document in whole or part;

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(2) Relate to the correctness or incorrectness of information contained in the document; or

(3) Create a presumption that the document is either valid or invalid or that information contained in the document is either correct or incorrect.

Source: SL 1990, ch 370, § 10.