56-1a156. Filing certificate. (a) The original signed copy of the certificate of limited partnership, any certificates of amendment or cancellation and any judicial decree of amendment or cancellation shall be delivered to the secretary of state, where the instrument shall be recorded in an electronic medium. A person who executes a certificate as an agent or fiduciary shall not be required to exhibit evidence of the person's authority as a prerequisite to filing. Unless the secretary of state finds that any certificate does not conform to law, upon receipt of all filing fees required by law, the secretary of state shall:

(1) Certify that the certificate of limited partnership, certificate of amendment, certificate of cancellation or judicial decree of amendment or cancellation has been filed in the secretary of state's office by endorsing upon the electronically-recorded document the word "Filed" and the date and hour of the filing; in the absence of actual fraud this endorsement is conclusive of the date and time of its filing;

(2)  record the endorsed certificate in an electronic medium and that electronic document shall become the original document; and

(3) return a certified copy of the recorded document, to the person who filed it or that person's representative.

(b) The certificate of limited partnership shall be amended as provided in a certificate of amendment or decree of amendment upon the filing of the certificate of amendment or judicial decree of amendment in the office of the secretary of state or upon the future effective date specified in the certificate of amendment or judicial decree of amendment. The certificate of limited partnership is canceled upon the filing of a certificate of cancellation or a judicial decree of amendment in the office of the secretary of state, upon the future effective date specified in the certificate of cancellation or a judicial decree or as specified in this act.

(c) The fee required by K.S.A. 56-1a605, and amendments thereto, shall be paid at the time of the filing of a certificate of limited partnership, a certificate of amendment or a certificate of cancellation.

(d) The fee required by K.S.A. 56-1a605, and amendments thereto, shall be paid for a certified copy of any paper on file pursuant to this act, and the fee fixed pursuant to K.S.A. 56-1a605, and amendments thereto, shall be paid for each page copied.

History: L. 1983, ch. 88, § 13; L. 2004, ch. 143, § 97; L. 2009, ch. 64, § 4; July 1, 2010.