(a) The exclusive right to use a limited liability partnership name may be reserved by: (1) Any person intending to form a registered limited liability partnership and to adopt that name; (2) any registered limited liability partnership, or any foreign registered limited liability partnership operating in this state, that intends to adopt that name; (3) any foreign registered limited liability partnership intending to operate in this state and to adopt that name; or (4) any person intending to apply for a certificate of authority for a foreign registered limited liability partnership to operate in this state and to adopt that name.
(b) The reservation shall be made by filing with the Secretary of the State an application together with the applicable fee, executed by the applicant, to reserve a specified name. If the Secretary of the State finds that the name is available for use by a registered limited liability partnership or foreign registered limited liability partnership, he shall reserve the name for the exclusive use of the applicant for a period of one hundred twenty days counting the date of such filing as the first of the one hundred twenty days.
(c) The holder of a reserved limited liability partnership name may renew the reservation for successive periods of one hundred twenty days each from the date of such renewal.
(d) The right of the exclusive use of a reserved name may be transferred to another person by filing with the Secretary of the State a notice of the transfer, executed by the applicant for whom the name was reserved and specifying the name to be transferred and the name and address of the transferee. The transfer shall not extend the term during which the name is reserved.
(e) Any person for whom a specified limited liability partnership name has been reserved pursuant to subsection (b) of this section may, during the period for which such name is reserved, terminate such reservation by filing in the office of the Secretary of the State an application for cancellation of reservation of limited liability partnership name, together with the applicable fee.
(P.A. 94-218, S. 21, 28; P.A. 95-252, S. 9; P.A. 96-77, S. 13.)
History: P.A. 94-218 effective January 1, 1996; P.A. 95-252 amended Subsec. (a) to specify that the reservation is of the exclusive right to use a “limited liability partnership” name, amended Subsec. (c) to replace “a reserved registered limited liability partnership or foreign registered limited liability partnership name” with “a reserved limited liability partnership name” and added Subsec. (e) to authorize the cancellation of the reservation of a limited liability partnership name and specify the procedure therefor; P.A. 96-77 amended Subsec. (b) to make a technical change; Sec. 34-81t transferred to Sec. 34-407 in 1997.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 614 - Uniform Partnership Act. Limited Liability Partnerships
Section 34-300. - Short title: Uniform Partnership Act.
Section 34-301. - Definitions.
Section 34-302. - Knowledge and notice.
Section 34-303. - Effect of partnership agreement. Nonwaivable provisions.
Section 34-304. - Supplemental principles of law.
Section 34-305. - Execution, filing and recording of statements.
Section 34-306. - Law governing internal relations.
Section 34-307. - Partnership subject to statutory amendment or repeal.
Section 34-313. - Partnership as entity.
Section 34-314. - Formation of partnership.
Section 34-315. - Partnership property.
Section 34-316. - When property is partnership property.
Section 34-322. - Partner as agent of partnership.
Section 34-323. - Transfer of partnership property.
Section 34-324. - Statement of partnership authority.
Section 34-325. - Statement of denial.
Section 34-326. - Partnership liable for partner's actionable conduct.
Section 34-327. - Liability of partner. Insurance.
Section 34-328. - Actions by and against partnership and partners.
Section 34-329. - Liability of purported partner.
Section 34-335. - Rights and duties of a partner.
Section 34-336. - Distributions in kind.
Section 34-337. - Rights and duties of a partner with respect to information.
Section 34-338. - General standards of conduct of a partner.
Section 34-339. - Actions by partnership and partners.
Section 34-340. - Continuation of partnership beyond definite term or particular undertaking.
Section 34-346. - Partner not co-owner of partnership property.
Section 34-347. - Partner's transferable interest in partnership.
Section 34-348. - Transfer of partner's transferable interest.
Section 34-349. - Partner's transferable interest subject to charging order.
Section 34-355. - Events causing partner's dissociation.
Section 34-356. - Partner's power to dissociate. Wrongful dissociation.
Section 34-357. - Effect of partner's dissociation.
Section 34-362. - Purchase of dissociated partner's interest.
Section 34-363. - Dissociated partner's power to bind and liability to partnership.
Section 34-364. - Dissociated partner's liability to other persons.
Section 34-365. - Statement of dissociation.
Section 34-366. - Continued use of partnership name.
Section 34-372. - Events causing dissolution and winding up of partnership business.
Section 34-373. - Partnership continues after dissolution.
Section 34-374. - Right to wind up partnership business.
Section 34-375. - Partner's power to bind partnership after dissolution.
Section 34-376. - Statement of dissolution.
Section 34-377. - Partner's liability to other partners after dissolution.
Section 34-378. - Settlement of accounts and contributions among partners.
Section 34-384. - Definitions.
Section 34-388. - Merger of partnerships.
Section 34-389. - Effect of merger.
Section 34-390. - Statement of merger.
Section 34-391. - Nonexclusive.
Section 34-397. - Uniformity of application and construction.
Section 34-398. - Applicability.
Section 34-399. - Savings clause.
Section 34-400. (Formerly Sec. 34-81a). - Recognition and regulation of partnerships.
Section 34-406. (Formerly Sec. 34-81s). - Domestic and foreign limited liability partnerships: Name.
Section 34-420. (Formerly Sec. 34-81c). - Domestic limited liability partnership: Annual report.
Section 34-422a. - Domestic limited liability partnership: Reinstatement after revocation.
Section 34-431. (Formerly Sec. 34-81l). - Foreign limited liability partnership: Annual report.