Section 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.(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.N.C. Gen. Stat. § 130A-468
Amended by 2007 N.C. Sess. Laws 502,s. 16, eff. 10/1/2007.Added by 2001-455, s. 1, eff. 5/1/2002.Amended by 2001-513, s. 30(b), eff. 7/1/2001.