The duties and responsibilities of the filing officer with respect to the administration of the UCC are ministerial. In accepting for filing or refusing to file a UCC document pursuant to these rules, the filing officer does none of the following.

1. (1) Determine the legal sufficiency or insufficiency of a document.
2. (2) Determine that a security interest in collateral exists or does not exist.
3. (3) Determine that information in the document is correct or incorrect, in whole or in part.
4. (4) Create a presumption that information in the document is correct or incorrect, in whole or in part.

Source Note:The provisions of this §95.300 adopted to be effective November 1, 1998, 23 TexReg 9727.