(a) The name of a limited partnership may contain the name of any partner.
(b) The name of a limited partnership that is not a limited liability limited partnership must contain the phrase "limited partnership" or the abbreviation "L.P." or "LP" and may not contain the phrase "limited liability limited partnership" or the abbreviation "LLLP" or "L.L.L.P."
(c) Except as provided in section 321.1206(e)(1), the name of a limited liability limited partnership must contain the phrase "limited liability limited partnership" or the abbreviation "LLLP" or "L.L.L.P." and must not otherwise contain the abbreviation "L.P." or "LP."
(d) The limited partnership name shall not contain a word or phrase that indicates or implies that it is formed for a purpose other than a legal purpose.
(e) The limited partnership name shall be distinguishable upon the records in the Office of the Secretary of State from the name of each domestic corporation, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, and limited liability company, whether profit or nonprofit, and each foreign corporation, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, and limited liability company on file, authorized or registered to do business in this state at the time of filing, whether profit or nonprofit, and each name the right to which is, at the time of formation, reserved as provided for in sections 5.35, 302A.117, 322A.03, 322C.0109, or 333.001 to 333.54, unless there is filed with the certificate of limited partnership one of the following:
(1) the written consent of the domestic corporation, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, or limited liability company, or the foreign corporation, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, or limited liability company authorized or registered to do business in this state or the holder of a reserved name or a name filed by or registered with the secretary of state under sections 333.001 to 333.54 having a name that is not distinguishable;
(2) a certified copy of a final decree of a court in this state establishing the prior right of the applicant to the use of the name in this state; or
(3) the applicant's affidavit that the corporation, limited partnership, or limited liability company with the name that is not distinguishable has been incorporated or on file in this state for at least three years prior to the affidavit, if it is a domestic corporation, limited partnership, or limited liability company, or has been authorized or registered to do business in this state for at least three years prior to the affidavit, if it is a foreign corporation, limited partnership, or limited liability company, or that the holder of a name filed or registered with the secretary of state under sections 333.001 to 333.54 filed or registered that name at least three years prior to the affidavit; that the corporation, limited partnership, or limited liability company or holder has not during the three-year period before the affidavit filed any document with the secretary of state; that the applicant has mailed written notice to the corporation, limited partnership, or limited liability company or the holder of a name filed or registered with the secretary of state under sections 333.001 to 333.54 by certified mail, return receipt requested, properly addressed to the registered office of the corporation or limited liability company or in care of the agent of the limited partnership, or the address of the holder of a name filed or registered with the secretary of state under sections 333.001 to 333.54, shown in the records of the secretary of state, stating that the applicant intends to use a name that is not distinguishable and the notice has been returned to the applicant as undeliverable to the addressee corporation, limited partnership, limited liability company, or holder of a name filed or registered with the secretary of state under sections 333.001 to 333.54; that the applicant, after diligent inquiry, has been unable to find any telephone listing for the corporation, limited partnership, or limited liability company with the name that is not distinguishable in the county in which is located the registered office of the corporation, limited partnership, or limited liability company shown in the records of the secretary of state or has been unable to find any telephone listing for the holder of a name filed or registered with the secretary of state under sections 333.001 to 333.54 in the county in which is located the address of the holder shown in the records of the secretary of state; and that the applicant has no knowledge that the corporation, limited partnership, limited liability company, or holder of a name filed or registered with the secretary of state under sections 333.001 to 333.54 is currently engaged in business in this state.
(f) The secretary of state shall determine whether a name is distinguishable from another name for purposes of this section and section 321.0109.
(g) This section and section 321.0109 do not abrogate or limit the law of unfair competition or unfair practices; nor sections 333.001 to 333.54; nor the laws of the United States with respect to the right to acquire and protect copyrights, trade names, trademarks, service names, service marks, or any other rights to the exclusive use of names or symbols; nor derogate the common law or the principles of equity.
(h) A limited partnership that is the surviving organization in a merger with one or more other organizations, or that is formed by the reorganization of one or more organizations, or that acquires by sale, lease, or other disposition to or exchange with an organization all or substantially all of the assets of another organization, including its name, may have the same name as that used in this state by any of the other organizations, if the other organization whose name is sought to be used was organized under the laws of, or is authorized to transact business in, this state.
(i) The use of a name by a limited partnership in violation of this section does not affect or vitiate its existence, but a court in this state may, upon application of the state or of a person interested or affected, enjoin the limited partnership from doing business under a name assumed in violation of this section, although its certificate of limited partnership may have been filed with the secretary of state and a certificate of formation issued.
2004 c 199 art 1 s 8; 2008 c 203 s 12; 2008 c 277 art 1 s 69; 2009 c 98 s 16; 2014 c 157 art 2 s 28,29,31
Structure Minnesota Statutes
Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations
Chapter 321 — Uniform Limited Partnership Act 2001
Section 321.0101 — Short Title.
Section 321.0102 — Definitions.
Section 321.0103 — Knowledge And Notice.
Section 321.0104 — Nature, Purpose, And Duration Of Entity.
Section 321.0106 — Governing Law.
Section 321.0107 — Supplemental Principles Of Law; Rate Of Interest.
Section 321.0109 — Reservation Of Name.
Section 321.0110 — Effect Of Partnership Agreement; Nonwaivable Provisions.
Section 321.0111 — Required Information.
Section 321.0112 — Business Transactions Of Partner With Partnership.
Section 321.0113 — Dual Capacity.
Section 321.0114 — Office And Agent For Service Of Process.
Section 321.0115 — Change Of Designated Office Or Agent For Service Of Process.
Section 321.0116 — Resignation Of Agent For Service Of Process.
Section 321.0117 — Service Of Process.
Section 321.0118 — Consent And Proxies Of Partners.
Section 321.0201 — Formation Of Limited Partnership; Certificate Of Limited Partnership.
Section 321.0202 — Amendment Or Restatement Of Certificate.
Section 321.0203 — Statement Of Termination.
Section 321.0204 — Signing Of Records.
Section 321.0205 — Signing And Filing Pursuant To Judicial Order.
Section 321.0206 — Delivery To And Filing Of Records By Secretary Of State; Effective Time And Date.
Section 321.0207 — Correcting Filed Record.
Section 321.0208 — Liability For False Information In Filed Record.
Section 321.0210 — Annual Renewal For Secretary Of State.
Section 321.0301 — Becoming Limited Partner.
Section 321.0302 — No Right Or Power As Limited Partner To Bind Limited Partnership.
Section 321.0303 — No Liability As Limited Partner For Limited Partnership Obligations.
Section 321.0304 — Right Of Limited Partner And Former Limited Partner To Information.
Section 321.0305 — Limited Duties Of Limited Partners.
Section 321.0306 — Person Erroneously Believing Self To Be Limited Partner.
Section 321.0401 — Becoming General Partner.
Section 321.0402 — General Partner Agent Of Limited Partnership.
Section 321.0403 — Limited Partnership Liable For General Partner's Actionable Conduct.
Section 321.0404 — General Partner's Liability.
Section 321.0405 — Actions By And Against Partnership And Partners.
Section 321.0406 — Management Rights Of General Partner.
Section 321.0407 — Right Of General Partner And Former General Partner To Information.
Section 321.0408 — General Standards Of General Partner's Conduct.
Section 321.0409 — Transfer Of Partnership Property.
Section 321.0501 — Form Of Contribution.
Section 321.0502 — Liability For Contribution.
Section 321.0503 — Sharing Of Distributions.
Section 321.0504 — Interim Distributions.
Section 321.0505 — No Distribution On Account Of Dissociation.
Section 321.0506 — Distribution In Kind.
Section 321.0507 — Right To Distribution.
Section 321.0508 — Limitations On Distribution.
Section 321.0509 — Liability For Improper Distributions.
Section 321.0601 — Dissociation As Limited Partner.
Section 321.0602 — Effect Of Dissociation As Limited Partner.
Section 321.0603 — Dissociation As General Partner.
Section 321.0604 — Person's Power To Dissociate As General Partner; Wrongful Dissociation.
Section 321.0605 — Effect Of Dissociation As General Partner.
Section 321.0607 — Liability To Other Persons Of Person Dissociated As General Partner.
Section 321.0701 — Partner's Transferable Interest.
Section 321.0702 — Transfer Of Partner's Transferable Interest.
Section 321.0703 — Rights Of Creditor Of Partner Or Transferee.
Section 321.0704 — Power Of Estate Of Deceased Partner.
Section 321.0801 — Nonjudicial Dissolution.
Section 321.0802 — Judicial Dissolution.
Section 321.0803 — Winding Up.
Section 321.0806 — Known Claims Against Dissolved Limited Partnership.
Section 321.0807 — Other Claims Against Dissolved Limited Partnerships.
Section 321.0809 — Administrative Dissolution.
Section 321.0810 — Reinstatement Following Administrative Dissolution Or Revocation.
Section 321.0812 — Disposition Of Assets; When Contributions Required.
Section 321.0901 — Governing Law.
Section 321.0902 — Application For Certificate Of Authority.
Section 321.0903 — Activities Not Constituting Transacting Business.
Section 321.0904 — Filing Of Certificate Of Authority.
Section 321.0905 — Alternate Name; Noncomplying Name Of Foreign Limited Partnership.
Section 321.0906 — Revocation Of Certificate Of Authority.
Section 321.0907 — Cancellation Of Certificate Of Authority; Effect Of Failure To Have Certificate.
Section 321.0908 — Action By Attorney General.
Section 321.0909 — Name Changes Filed In Home State.
Section 321.1001 — Direct Action By Partner.
Section 321.1002 — Derivative Action.
Section 321.1003 — Proper Plaintiff.
Section 321.1005 — Proceeds And Expenses.
Section 321.1101 — Definitions.
Section 321.1102 — Conversion.
Section 321.1103 — Action On Plan Of Conversion By Converting Limited Partnership.
Section 321.1104 — Filings Required For Conversion; Effective Date.
Section 321.1105 — Effect Of Conversion.
Section 321.1107 — Action On Plan Of Merger By Constituent Limited Partnership.
Section 321.1108 — Filings Required For Merger; Effective Date.
Section 321.1109 — Effect Of Merger.
Section 321.1111 — Liability Of General Partner After Conversion Or Merger.
Section 321.1113 — Chapter Not Exclusive.
Section 321.1114 — Conflict Relating To Merger Or Conversion.
Section 321.1115 — Domestication.
Section 321.1116 — Action On Plan Of Domestication By Domesticating Limited Partnership.
Section 321.1117 — Filings Required For Domestication; Effective Date.
Section 321.1118 — Effect Of Domestication.
Section 321.1119 — Restrictions On Approval Of Mergers, Exchanges, Conversions, And Domestications.
Section 321.1201 — Uniformity Of Application And Construction.
Section 321.1202 — Severability Clause.
Section 321.1203 — Relation To Electronic Signatures In Global And National Commerce Act.
Section 321.1206 — Application To Existing Relationships.