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A.__Affect the validity or invalidity of the document in
whole or part;

 
B.__Relate to the correctness or incorrectness of
information contained in the document; or

 
C.__Create a presumption that the document is valid or
invalid or that information contained in the document is
correct or incorrect.

 
§1012.__Appeal Secretary of State's refusal to file document

 
1.__Commencing an appeal.__If the Secretary of State refuses
to file a document delivered to the Secretary of State's office
for filing, the partnership within 30 days after the return of
the document may appeal the refusal to the Superior Court of the
county where the corporation's principal office is located or, if
there is not a principal office in this State, of Kennebec
County. The appeal is commenced by petitioning the court to
compel filing of the document and by attaching to the petition
the document and the Secretary of State's explanation of the
refusal to file.

 
2.__Court order.__Upon the receipt of a petition filed under
subsection 1, the court may summarily order the Secretary of
State to file a document or take other action the court considers
appropriate.

 
3.__Appeal court's decision.__The court's final decision may
be appealed as in other civil proceedings.

 
§1013.__Evidentiary effect of copy of filed document

 
A certificate from the Secretary of State delivered with a
copy of a document filed by the Secretary of State pursuant to
section 1011 is conclusive evidence that the original document is
on file with the Secretary of State.

 
§1014.__Penalty for signing false document

 
A person commits a Class E crime if that person signs a
document pursuant to this chapter knowing it is false in any
material respect with intent that the document be delivered to
the Secretary of State for filing.

 
§1015.__Powers

 
The Secretary of State has the power reasonably necessary to
perform the duties required of the Secretary of State by this
chapter, including the power to make rules not inconsistent with


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