RCW 25.05.500
Formation—Registration—Application—Registered agent—Fee.
(1) A partnership which is not a limited liability partnership on June 11, 1998, may become a limited liability partnership upon the approval of the terms and conditions upon which it becomes a limited liability partnership by the vote necessary to amend the partnership agreement except, in the case of a partnership agreement that expressly considers obligations to contribute to the partnership, the vote necessary to amend those provisions, and by delivering to the secretary of state for filing the applications required by subsection (2) of this section. A partnership which is a limited liability partnership on June 11, 1998, continues as a limited liability partnership under this chapter.
(2)(a) To become and to continue as a limited liability partnership, a partnership must deliver to the secretary of state for filing an application stating the name of the partnership; the address of its principal office; the name and address of a registered agent for service of process in this state which the partnership will be required to continuously maintain in accordance with Article 4 of chapter 23.95 RCW; the number of partners; a brief statement of the business in which the partnership engages; any other matters that the partnership determines to include; and that the partnership thereby applies for status as a limited liability partnership.
(b) A registered agent for service of process under (a) of this subsection may be any person authorized under Article 4 of chapter 23.95 RCW to serve as registered agent.
(3) The application must be accompanied by a fee for each partnership as established by the secretary of state under RCW 23.95.260.
(4) The secretary of state must register as a limited liability partnership any partnership that submits a completed application with the required fee.
(5) A partnership registered under this section must pay an annual fee, in each year following the year in which its application is filed, on a date and in an amount specified by the secretary of state under RCW 23.95.260. The fee must be accompanied by an annual report pursuant to RCW 23.95.255(2).
(6) Registration is effective as specified in RCW 23.95.210, and remains effective until:
(a) It is voluntarily withdrawn by delivering to the secretary of state for filing a written withdrawal notice executed by a majority of the partners or by one or more partners or other persons authorized to execute a withdrawal notice; or
(b) Thirty days after receipt by the partnership of a notice from the secretary of state, which notice must be sent by first-class mail, postage prepaid, that the partnership has failed to make timely payment of the annual fee specified in subsection (5) of this section, unless the fee is paid within such a thirty-day period.
(7) The status of a partnership as a limited liability partnership, and the liability of the partners thereof, is not affected by: (a) Errors in the information stated in an application under subsection (2) of this section or a notice under subsection (6) of this section; or (b) changes after the filing of such an application or notice in the information stated in the application or notice.
[ 2017 c 31 § 5; 2015 c 176 § 5108; 2010 1st sp.s. c 29 § 5; 2009 c 437 § 4; 1998 c 103 § 1101.]
NOTES:
Effective date—Contingent effective date—2015 c 176: See note following RCW 23.95.100.
Intent—2010 1st sp.s. c 29: See note following RCW 24.06.450.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 25.05 - Revised Uniform Partnership Act.
25.05.010 - Knowledge and notice.
25.05.015 - Effect of partnership agreement—Nonwaivable provisions.
25.05.020 - Supplemental principles of law.
25.05.025 - Delivery and filing of statements.
25.05.035 - Partnership subject to amendment or repeal of chapter.
25.05.050 - Partnership as entity.
25.05.055 - Formation of partnership.
25.05.060 - Partnership property.
25.05.065 - When property is partnership property.
25.05.100 - Partner agent of partnership.
25.05.105 - Transfer of partnership property.
25.05.110 - Statement of partnership authority.
25.05.115 - Statement of denial.
25.05.120 - Partnership liable for partner's actionable conduct.
25.05.125 - Partner's liability.
25.05.130 - Actions by and against partnership and partners.
25.05.135 - Liability of purported partner.
25.05.150 - Partner's rights and duties.
25.05.155 - Distributions in kind.
25.05.160 - Partner's rights and duties with respect to information.
25.05.165 - General standards of partner's conduct.
25.05.170 - Actions by partnership and partners.
25.05.175 - Continuation of partnership beyond definite term or particular undertaking.
25.05.200 - Partner not co-owner of partnership property.
25.05.205 - Partner's transferable interest in partnership.
25.05.210 - Transfer of partner's transferable interest.
25.05.215 - Partner's transferable interest subject to charging order.
25.05.225 - Events causing partner's dissociation.
25.05.230 - Partner's power to dissociate—Wrongful dissociation.
25.05.235 - Effect of partner's dissociation.
25.05.250 - Purchase of dissociated partner's interest.
25.05.255 - Dissociated partner's power to bind and liability to partnership.
25.05.260 - Dissociated partner's liability to other persons.
25.05.265 - Statement of dissociation.
25.05.270 - Continued use of partnership name.
25.05.300 - Events causing dissolution and winding up of partnership business.
25.05.305 - Partnership continues after dissolution.
25.05.310 - Right to wind up partnership business.
25.05.315 - Partner's power to bind partnership after dissolution.
25.05.320 - Statement of dissolution.
25.05.325 - Partner's liability to other partners after dissolution.
25.05.330 - Settlement of accounts and contributions among partners.
25.05.355 - Conversion of partnership to limited partnership.
25.05.360 - Conversion of limited partnership to partnership.
25.05.365 - Effect of conversion—Entity unchanged.
25.05.370 - Merger of partnerships.
25.05.375 - Merger—Plan—Approval.
25.05.380 - Articles of merger—Filing.
25.05.390 - Merger—Foreign and domestic.
25.05.425 - Partner—Dissent—Payment of fair value.
25.05.430 - Dissenters' rights—Notice—Timing.
25.05.435 - Partner—Dissent—Voting restriction.
25.05.440 - Partners—Dissenters' notice—Requirements.
25.05.445 - Partner—Payment demand—Entitlement.
25.05.450 - Partners' interests—Transfer restriction.
25.05.455 - Payment of fair value—Requirements for compliance.
25.05.460 - Merger—Not effective within sixty days—Transfer restrictions.
25.05.465 - Dissenter's estimate of fair value—Notice.
25.05.470 - Unsettled demand for payment—Proceeding—Parties—Appraisers.
25.05.475 - Unsettled demand for payment—Costs—Fees and expenses of counsel.
25.05.500 - Formation—Registration—Application—Registered agent—Fee.
25.05.510 - Rendering professional services.
25.05.530 - Change of registered agent for service of process.
25.05.533 - Resignation of registered agent for service of process.
25.05.536 - Service of process.
25.05.550 - Foreign limited liability partnership—Effect of registration and governing law.
25.05.555 - Registration requirement.
25.05.560 - Failure to register—Penalties—Service of process.
25.05.565 - Activities not constituting transacting business.
25.05.580 - Registered agent—Designation and maintenance.
25.05.583 - Change of registered agent for service of process.
25.05.586 - Resignation of registered agent.
25.05.589 - Service of process.
25.05.901 - Dates of applicability.
25.05.902 - Applicable fees, charges, and penalties.
25.05.903 - Authority to adopt rules—Secretary of state.
25.05.904 - Uniformity of application and construction—1998 c 103.