1. A record authorized or required to be delivered to the secretary of state for filing under this chapter must be captioned to describe the record’s purpose, be in a medium permitted by the secretary of state, and be delivered to the secretary of state. If the filing fees have been paid, unless the secretary of state determines that a record does not comply with the filing requirements of this chapter, the secretary of state shall file the record and any of the following applies:

 a. For a statement of denial under section 489.303, send a copy of the filed statement and a receipt for the fees to the person on whose behalf the statement was delivered for filing and to the limited liability company.
 b. For all other records, send a copy of the filed record and a receipt for the fees to the person on whose behalf the record was filed.

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Terms Used In Iowa Code 489.205

  • Certificate of organization: means the certificate required by section 489. 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: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Iowa Code 489.102
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. 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. Upon request and payment of the requisite fee, the secretary of state shall send to the requester a certified copy of a requested record.
 3. Except as otherwise provided in sections 489.115 and 489.206, and except for a certificate of organization that contains a statement as provided in section 489.201, subsection 4, a record delivered to the secretary of state for filing under this chapter may specify an effective time and a delayed effective date. Subject to section 489.115, section 489.201, subsection 4, and section 489.206, a record filed by the secretary of state is effective as follows:

 a. If the record does not specify either an effective time or a delayed effective date, on the date and at the time the record is filed as evidenced by the secretary of state’s endorsement of the date and time on the record.
 b. If the record specifies an effective time but not a delayed effective date, on the date the record is filed at the time specified in the record.
 c. If the record specifies a delayed effective date but not an effective time, at 12:01 a.m. on the earlier of any of the following:

 (1) The specified date.
 (2) The ninetieth day after the record is filed.
 d. If the record specifies an effective time and a delayed effective date, at the specified time on the earlier of any of the following:

 (1) The specified date.
 (2) The ninetieth day after the record is filed.
 e. A delayed effective date for a record shall not be later than the ninetieth day after the date on which it is filed.