(1) If the secretary of state finds that an application for registration conforms to law and all requisite fees have been paid, the secretary must:

(a) Certify that the application has been filed in his or her office by endorsing upon the original application the word "Filed," and the date of the filing. This endorsement is conclusive of the date of its filing in the absence of actual fraud; and

(b) File the endorsed application.

(2) A conformed copy of the application must be returned to the person who filed the application or that person's representative.

[2015 c 188 § 64.]

See Supplementary Table of Disposition of Former RCW Sections, this volume.