(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. (2001-455, s. 1; 2001-513, s. 30(b); 2007-502, s. 16.)