§ 4266
TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES
DIVISION 4: CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS
§ 4266. Filing Duty of Registrar of Corporations. (a) If a document delivered to the Registrar of Corporations for filing satisfies the requirements of 4 CMC § 4261, the Registrar of Corporations shall file it. (b) The Registrar of Corporations files a document by stamping or otherwise endorsing “Filed,” together with his name and official title, the date and time of receipt, and, upon request at time of filing, a stamped or machine-printed filing number unique to the document on both the original and the document copy. After filing the document, except as provided in 4 CMC §§ 4333 and 4650, the Registrar of Corporations shall deliver the document copy to the domestic or foreign corporation or its representative. (c) If the Registrar of Corporations refuses to file a document, she or he shall return it to the domestic or foreign corporation or its representative within five days after the document was delivered, together with a brief written explanation of the reason for its refusal. (d) The Registrar of Corporation’s duty to file documents under this section is ministerial. His or her filing or refusal to file a document does not: (1) Affect the validity or invalidity of the document in whole or part; (2) Relate to the correctness or incorrectness of information contained in the document; (3) Create a presumption that the document is correct or incorrect. Source: PL 10-7, § 1 (Bus. Corp. Reg. § 1.25), modified; subsec. (b) amended by PL 24-07, § 2 (July 24, 2025), modified. Commission Comment: In codifying PL 24-07, the Commission omitted drafting marks pursuant to 1 CMC 3806(g).