Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 79 - CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, AND PARTNERSHIPS (§§ 79-1-1 — 79-37-604) › Chapter 29 - REVISED MISSISSIPPI LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ACT (§§ 79-29-101 — 79-29-1317) › Article 2 - FORMATION, CERTIFICATE OF FORMATION (§§ 79-29-201 — 79-29-233) › Section 79-29-211 - Filing with the Secretary of State

(1)
The certificate of formation and any certificate of amendment, dissolution, correction or merger and any restated certificate must be delivered to the Office of the Secretary of State. A person who signs a certificate as an agent or fiduciary need not exhibit evidence of the person's authority as a prerequisite to filing by the Secretary of State. Unless the Secretary of State finds that a certificate is not acceptable for filing, upon receipt of all filing fees required by Section
79-29-1203
and delivery of the certificate the Secretary of State shall:
(a)
Certify that the certificate has been filed in the Secretary of State's office by endorsing upon the signed certificate the word "Filed" and the date and time of the filing. This endorsement is conclusive evidence of the date and time of its filing in absence of actual fraud;
(b)
File the certificate; and
(c)
Return a copy to the person who delivered it for filing or that person's representative with an acknowledgment of the date and time of filing.
(2)
Upon the filing of a certificate of amendment or upon the future effective date of a certificate of amendment (or judicial decree thereof) or an amended and restated certificate, as provided for therein, the certificate of formation shall be amended, corrected or restated as set forth therein. Upon the filing of a certificate of dissolution (or a judicial decree thereof) by the Secretary of State or upon the future effective date of a certificate of dissolution (or a judicial decree thereof), the certificate of formation is dissolved.
(3)
Each certificate delivered to the Office of the Secretary of State for filing must be typewritten or printed, or, if electronically transmitted, it must be in a format that can be retrieved or reproduced by the Secretary of State in typewritten or printed form, and must be in the English language. A limited liability company name need not be in English if written in English letters or Arabic or Roman numerals.
(4)
Refused documents shall be returned by the Secretary of State to the limited liability company or its representative within ten (10) days after the document was delivered, together with a brief, written explanation of the reason for the refusal.
(a)
If the Secretary of State refuses to file a document, the limited liability company may appeal the refusal to the chancery court of the county where the limited liability company's principal office is or will be located. The appeal is commenced by petitioning the court to compel filing the document and by attaching to the petition the document and the Secretary of State's explanation of the refusal to file.
(b)
The court may summarily order the Secretary of State to file the document or take other action the court considers appropriate.
(c)
The court's final decision may be appealed as in other civil proceedings.
(5)
A certificate from the Secretary of State delivered with a copy of the document filed by the Secretary of State is conclusive evidence that the original document is on file with the Secretary of State.
Laws, 2010, ch. 532, § 1; Laws, 2012, ch. 382, § 110, eff. 1/1/2013.