APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY.
(a) A foreign limited partnership may apply for a certificate of authority to transact business in this state by delivering an application to the Secretary of State for filing. The application must state:
(1) the name of the foreign limited partnership and, if the name does not comply with Section 8 of this act, a fictitious name adopted pursuant to subsection (a) of Section 79 of this act.
(2) the name of the state or other jurisdiction under whose law the foreign limited partnership is organized;
(3) the street and mailing address of the foreign limited partnership’s principal office and, if the laws of the jurisdiction under which the foreign limited partnership is organized require the foreign limited partnership to maintain an office in that jurisdiction, the street and mailing address of the required office;
(4) the name and street and mailing address of the foreign limited partnership’s initial agent for service of process in this state;
(5) a statement that the Secretary of State is appointed the agent of the foreign limited partnership for service of process if no agent has been appointed pursuant to paragraph (4) of this subsection or, if appointed, the agent’s authority has been revoked or if the agent cannot be found or served with the exercise of reasonable diligence;
(6) the name and street and mailing address of each of the foreign limited partnership’s general partners; and
(7) whether the foreign limited partnership is a foreign limited liability limited partnership.
(b) A foreign limited partnership shall deliver with the completed application a certificate of good standing or existence or a record of similar import signed by the Secretary of State or other official having custody of the foreign limited partnership’s publicly filed records in the state or other jurisdiction under whose law the foreign limited partnership is organized.
Added by Laws 2010, c. 384, § 76, eff. Jan. 1, 2011.