(a) Any process, notice or demand in connection with any action or proceeding required or permitted by law to be served upon a foreign limited partnership authorized to transact business in this state which is subject to the provisions of section 34-38p, may be served upon the limited partnership's statutory agent for service by any proper officer or other person lawfully empowered to make service.
(b) A foreign limited partnership's agent upon whom process may be served shall be as follows: When the Secretary of the State and his successors have been appointed such limited partnership's agent for service of process, by leaving two true and attested copies thereof together with the required fee at the office of the Secretary of the State or depositing the same in the United States mails, by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, addressed to said office. The Secretary of the State shall file one copy of such process and keep a record of the date and hour of such receipt, and, within two business days after such service, forward by registered or certified mail the other copy of such process to the limited partnership at the address of the office designated in the certificate of registration filed pursuant to section 34-38g, as last shown on his records. Service so made shall be effective as of the date and hour received by the Secretary of the State as shown on his records. If it appears from the records of the Secretary of the State that such a foreign limited partnership has failed to appoint or maintain a statutory agent for service, or if it appears by affidavit attached to the process, notice or demand of the officer or other proper person directed to serve any process, notice or demand upon such a foreign limited partnership's statutory agent for service appearing on the records of the Secretary of the State that such agent cannot, with reasonable diligence, be found, service of such process, notice or demand on such foreign limited partnership may, when timely made, be made by such officer or other proper person by: (1) Leaving a true and attested copy thereof together with the required fee at the office of the Secretary of the State or depositing the same in the United States mails, by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, addressed to said office, and (2) depositing in the United States mails, by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, a true and attested copy thereof, together with a statement by such officer that service is being made pursuant to this section, addressed to such foreign limited partnership at the address of the office designated in the certificate of limited partnership in the state of formation as shown on the records of such state.
(c) The Secretary of the State shall file the copy of each process, notice or demand received by him as provided in subsection (b) of this section, and keep a record of the day and hour of such receipt. Service made as provided in this section shall be effective as of such day and hour.
(d) Nothing in this section contained shall limit or affect the right to serve any process, notice or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon a limited partnership in any other manner permitted by law.
(P.A. 86-379, S. 26; P.A. 87-589, S. 9, 87; P.A. 88-364, S. 51, 123; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-6, S. 105, 117; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1, S. 25, 121.)
History: P.A. 87-589 made technical change in Subsec. (b); P.A. 88-364 made a technical change to remove repeated words; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-6 amended Subsec. (b) to delete the amount of the fees required at the submission of documents; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1 made technical changes in Subsec. (b), effective June 24, 1998.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 610 - Uniform Limited Partnership Act
Section 34-10. - Formation of limited partnership; certificate of limited partnership.
Section 34-10a. - Execution of certificates.
Section 34-10b. - Filing requirements.
Section 34-10d. - Delivery of certificates to limited partners.
Section 34-11. - Authorized types of business.
Section 34-12. - Form of contributions by partner.
Section 34-13a. - Reservation of name.
Section 34-13b. - Specified office and agent for service of process.
Section 34-13c. - Records to be kept.
Section 34-13e. - Annual report.
Section 34-13f. - Failure to file report. Incorrect report.
Section 34-14. - Liability for false statement in certificates.
Section 34-15. - Liability of limited partners to third parties.
Section 34-15a. - Voting rights of limited partners.
Section 34-15b. - Voting rights of general partners.
Section 34-16. - Admission of additional limited partners.
Section 34-17. - General powers and liabilities of general partners.
Section 34-17a. - Admission of additional general partners.
Section 34-18. - Rights of limited partner.
Section 34-19. - Person erroneously believing himself a limited partner not a general partner, when.
Section 34-20a. - Sharing of profits and losses by partners.
Section 34-20b. - Distributions and allocation of cash or other assets to partners.
Section 34-20c. - Distributions in cash to partner; distributions in kind, when permitted.
Section 34-20e. - Partner's right to distribution.
Section 34-21. - Business transactions of partner with partnership.
Section 34-24. - Limitation on amount of distribution.
Section 34-25a. - Liability of partner upon return of any part of his contribution.
Section 34-26. - Nature of partnership interest.
Section 34-27b. - Withdrawal of general partner; damages.
Section 34-27c. - Withdrawal of limited partner; notice.
Section 34-28. - Person ceases to be general partner, when.
Section 34-28a. - Nonjudicial dissolution of limited partnership.
Section 34-28b. - Judicial dissolution of limited partnerships.
Section 34-28c. - Winding up of limited partnership.
Section 34-30. - Rights of judgment creditor to charge partnership interest of partner.
Section 34-31. - Order of distribution of assets upon winding up of limited partnership.
Section 34-32. - Amendment of certificate.
Section 34-32a. - Cancellation of certificate.
Section 34-32c. - Reinstatement after cancellation.
Section 34-33. - Amendment or cancellation of certificate by court order.
Section 34-33a. - Merger of limited partnerships.
Section 34-33b. - Consolidation of limited partnerships.
Section 34-33c. - Approval of plan of merger or consolidation by general and limited partners.
Section 34-33d. - Certificate of merger or consolidation.
Section 34-33e. - Effective date of merger or consolidation. Abandonment.
Section 34-33f. - Effect of merger or consolidation.
Section 34-34. - Contributor as party to proceedings affecting partnership.
Section 34-34a. - Derivative actions, right of action by limited partner.
Section 34-34b. - Derivative actions, proper plaintiff.
Section 34-34c. - Derivative actions, pleading.
Section 34-34d. - Derivative actions, expenses.
Section 34-35. - Citation of chapter.
Section 34-36. - Construction of chapter.
Section 34-37. - Applicability of the rules of law and equity.
Section 34-38. - Partnerships formed prior to October 1, 1979.
Section 34-38b. - Partnerships existing on October 1, 1986.
Section 34-38f. - Foreign limited partnerships, governing law.
Section 34-38g. - Foreign limited partnerships, registration with Secretary of the State.
Section 34-38h. - Foreign limited partnerships, issuance of registration by Secretary of the State.
Section 34-38i. - Foreign limited partnerships, name under which registered.
Section 34-38j. - Foreign limited partnerships, changes and amendments to registration.
Section 34-38k. - Foreign limited partnerships, cancellation of registration.
Section 34-38l. - Foreign limited partnerships, transaction of business without registration.
Section 34-38n. - Fees payable to the Secretary of the State for limited partnership documents.
Section 34-38p. - Foreign limited partnerships. Appointment of agent for service of process.
Section 34-38q. - Foreign limited partnerships, service of process upon statutory agent.
Section 34-38s. - Foreign limited partnerships. Annual report.
Section 34-38t. - Foreign limited partnerships. Failure to file report. Incorrect report.
Section 34-38u. - Foreign limited partnerships. Revocation of certificate of registration.