1. (a) Applications accompanied by the appropriate fee will be given a date of receipt for purpose of processing as received by the secretary of state. The application will be held pending final determination of the mark's registrability by an examiner.
2. (b) Applications delivered without the appropriate fee will not be accorded a date of receipt for purposes of processing and will be returned to sender.

Source Note:The provisions of this §93.51 adopted to be effective May 8, 1989, 14 TexReg 2020; amended to be effective February 18, 1998, 23 TexReg 1535.