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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".03" citation="COMAR 18.14.01.03" title_num="18" subtitle_num="14" chapter_num="01" heading="Duties and Responsibilities.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>The duties and responsibilities of the filing office with respect to the administration of the UCC are ministerial. In accepting for recordation or refusing to record a financing statement pursuant to this subtitle, the filing office does not:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Determine the legal sufficiency or insufficiency of a record;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Determine that a security interest in collateral exists or does not exist;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Determine that information in the record is correct or incorrect, in whole or in part; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Create a presumption that information in the record is correct or incorrect, in whole or in part.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>The responsibility for the legal effectiveness of a financing statement filing rests with the filers and remitters, and the filing office bears no responsibility for effectiveness.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>The State and the filing office and their employees and agents are immune from liability that occurs as a result of errors in or omissions from information provided from the UCC information management system or any other errors or omissions with respect to financing statement filings.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>