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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".03" citation="COMAR 18.16.01.03" title_num="18" subtitle_num="16" chapter_num="01" heading="Duties and Responsibilities.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>The duties and responsibilities of the filing office with respect to the filing of records pursuant to this subtitle are ministerial.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>In accepting or refusing to accept a record, 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 rate stabilization property 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="C.">
    <text>The responsibility for the legal effectiveness of a record rests with the filing party and the filing office bears no responsibility for effectiveness.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>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.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>