§414-16 Filing duty of department director. (a) If a document delivered to the department director for filing satisfies the requirements of section 414-11, the department director shall file it.
(b) The department director files a document by stamping or otherwise endorsing the document including the date and time of receipt.
(c) If the department director refuses to file a document, the department director shall return it to the domestic or foreign corporation or its representative together with a brief, written explanation of the reason for the department director's refusal.
(d) The department director's duty to file documents under this section is ministerial. The department director's filing or refusing to file a document does not: