- A. The duties and responsibilities of the filing office with respect to the filing of records pursuant to this subtitle are ministerial.
B. In accepting or refusing to accept a record, the filing office does not:
- (1) Determine the legal sufficiency or insufficiency of a record;
- (2) Determine that a security interest in rate stabilization property exists or does not exist;
- (3) Determine that information in the record is correct or incorrect, in whole or in part; or
- (4) Create a presumption that information in the record is correct or incorrect, in whole or in part.
- C. The responsibility for the legal effectiveness of a record rests with the filing party and the filing office bears no responsibility for effectiveness.
- D. The State and the filing office and its employees, agents, and servants are immune from liability occurring as a result of errors in or omissions of information provided from the filing office's information management system or any other errors or omissions with respect to filings.
Authority: Public Utilities Article, §7-542(d), Annotated Code of Maryland
Effective date: March 26, 2007 (34:6 Md. R. 628)