SEC. 12A-37. TIMELINESS OF FILING REGISTRATIONS, ACTIVITY REPORTS, AND NON-REGISTRANT DISCLOSURE STATEMENTS.

   (a)   A registration, an activity report, or a non-registrant disclosure statement filed by first-class United States mail or by common or contract carrier is timely if:

      (1)   it is properly addressed with postage and handling charges prepaid;

      (2)   it bears a post office cancellation mark or a receipt mark from a common or contract carrier indicating a time within the applicable filing period or before the applicable filing deadline, or the person required to file furnishes satisfactory proof that it was deposited in the mail or with a common or contract carrier within that filing period or before that filing deadline; and

      (3)   it was in fact received by the city secretary.

   (b)   A registration, an activity report, or a non-registrant disclosure statement filed electronically is timely if it is time and date stamped as having been received by the city's server by 5:00 p.m. on the last day permitted for filing. (Ord. Nos. 27748; 32072; 32472)