Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 178 - Uniform partnership law.
178.0121 - Certificate of status.

178.0121 Certificate of status.
(1) Any person may obtain from the department, upon request, a certificate of status for a limited liability partnership or a foreign limited liability partnership.
(2) A certificate of status shall include all of the following information:
(a) The domestic limited liability partnership's partnership name or the foreign limited liability partnership's partnership name and fictitious name, if any, used in this state.
(b) Whether each of the following is true:
1. The domestic limited liability partnership is a limited liability partnership whose governing law is the law of this state, or the foreign limited liability partnership is authorized to transact business in this state.
2. The domestic limited liability partnership or the foreign limited liability partnership has, during its most recently completed report year, filed with the department an annual report required by s. 178.0913.
3. The domestic limited liability partnership has not filed a cancellation of its statement of qualification.
4. The foreign limited liability partnership has not filed a statement of withdrawal of its registration statement under s. 178.1011 and, if not, the effective date of its registration statement.
(c) The domestic limited liability partnership's effective date of its statement of qualification and the period of its duration if less than perpetual.
(3) The certificate of status may include other facts of record in the department that are requested.
(4) Subject to any qualification stated in a certificate of status issued by the department, the certificate is conclusive evidence that the limited liability partnership or the foreign limited liability partnership is in existence or is authorized to transact business in this state.
(5) Upon request by telephone or otherwise, the department shall confirm, by telephone, any of the information required in a certificate of status under sub. (2) and may confirm any other information permitted under sub. (3).
History: 2015 a. 295; 2021 a. 258.

Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Chapter 178 - Uniform partnership law.

178.0101 - Short title.

178.0102 - Definitions.

178.0103 - Knowledge; notice.

178.0104 - Governing law.

178.0105 - Partnership agreement; scope, function, and limitations.

178.0106 - Partnership agreement; effect on partnership and person becoming partner; preformation agreement.

178.0107 - Partnership agreement; effect on third parties and relationship to records effective on behalf of partnership.

178.0108 - Signing of records to be delivered for filing to the department.

178.0109 - Liability for inaccurate information in filed record.

178.0110 - Applicability.

178.0111 - Delivery of record.

178.0112 - Signing and filing pursuant to judicial order.

178.0113 - Filing requirements.

178.0114 - Effective date and time.

178.0115 - Withdrawal of filed record before effectiveness.

178.0116 - Correcting filed record.

178.0117 - Duty of department to file; review of refusal to file; delivery of record by department.

178.0119 - Supplemental principles of law.

178.0120 - Fees; certified copies; filing false documents.

178.0121 - Certificate of status.

178.0201 - Partnership as entity.

178.0202 - Formation of partnership.

178.0203 - Partnership property.

178.0204 - When property is partnership property.

178.0301 - Partner agent of partnership.

178.0302 - Transfer of partnership property.

178.0303 - Statement of partnership authority.

178.0304 - Statement of denial.

178.0305 - Partnership liable for partner's actionable conduct.

178.0306 - Partner's liability.

178.0307 - Actions by and against partnership and partners.

178.0308 - Liability of purported partner.

178.0401 - Partner's rights and duties.

178.0402 - Becoming partner.

178.0403 - Form of contribution.

178.0404 - Liability for contribution.

178.0405 - Sharing of and right to distributions before dissolution.

178.0406 - Limitations on distributions by limited liability partnership.

178.0407 - Liability for improper distributions by limited liability partnership.

178.0408 - Rights to information of partners and persons dissociated as partner.

178.0409 - Standards of conduct for partners.

178.0410 - Actions by partnership and partners.

178.0411 - Continuation of partnership beyond definite term or particular undertaking.

178.0501 - Partner not co-owner of partnership property.

178.0502 - Nature of transferable interest.

178.0503 - Transfer of transferable interest.

178.0504 - Charging order.

178.0505 - Power of legal representative of deceased partner.

178.0601 - Events causing dissociation.

178.0602 - Power to dissociate as partner; wrongful dissociation.

178.0603 - Effect of dissociation.

178.0701 - Purchase of interest of person dissociated as partner.

178.0702 - Power to bind and liability of person dissociated as partner.

178.0703 - Liability of person dissociated as partner to other persons.

178.0704 - Statement of dissociation.

178.0705 - Continued use of partnership name.

178.0801 - Events causing dissolution.

178.0802 - Winding up.

178.0803 - Rescinding dissolution.

178.0804 - Power to bind partnership after dissolution.

178.0805 - Liability after dissolution of partner and person dissociated as partner.

178.0806 - Disposition of assets in winding up; when contributions required.

178.0807 - Known claims against dissolved limited liability partnership.

178.0808 - Claims against dissolved limited liability partnership generally.

178.0809 - Court proceedings.

178.0810 - Liability of partner and person dissociated as partner when claim against partnership barred.

178.0901 - Statement of qualification.

178.0902 - Permitted names.

178.09031 - Grounds for revocation.

178.09032 - Procedure for and effect of administrative revocation.

178.0904 - Reinstatement following administrative revocation.

178.0905 - Appeal from denial of reinstatement.

178.0906 - Reservation of name.

178.0907 - Registration of name.

178.0908 - Registered agent and registered office.

178.0909 - Change of registered agent or registered office by limited liability partnership.

178.0910 - Resignation of registered agent.

178.0911 - Change of name or address by registered agent.

178.0912 - Service of process, notice, or demand.

178.0913 - Annual report for department.

178.1001 - Governing law.

178.1002 - Registration to do business in this state.

178.1003 - Foreign registration statement.

178.1004 - Amendment of foreign registration statement.

178.1005 - Activities not constituting doing business.

178.1006 - Noncomplying name of foreign limited liability partnership.

178.1007 - Withdrawal deemed on conversion to or merger into domestic filing entity or domestic limited liability partnership.

178.1008 - Withdrawal on dissolution or conversion to nonfiling entity other than limited liability partnership.

178.1009 - Transfer of registration.

178.10101 - Grounds for revocation.

178.10102 - Procedure for and effect of revocation.

178.10103 - Appeal from revocation.

178.1011 - Withdrawal of registration of registered foreign limited liability partnership.

178.1012 - Action by attorney general.

178.1101 - Definitions.

178.1102 - Relationship of subchapter to other laws.

178.1103 - Existing purpose.

178.1104 - Nonexclusivity.

178.1105 - Reference to external facts.

178.1121 - Merger authorized.

178.1122 - Plan of merger.

178.1123 - Approval of merger; amendment; abandonment.

178.1124 - Filings required for merger; effective date.

178.1125 - Effect of merger.

178.1131 - Interest exchange authorized.

178.1132 - Plan of interest exchange.

178.1133 - Approval of interest exchange; amendment; abandonment.

178.1134 - Filings required for interest exchange; effective date.

178.1135 - Effect of interest exchange.

178.1141 - Conversion authorized.

178.1142 - Plan of conversion.

178.1143 - Approval of conversion; amendment; abandonment.

178.1144 - Filings required for conversion; effective date.

178.1145 - Effect of conversion.

178.1151 - Domestication authorized.

178.1152 - Plan of domestication.

178.1153 - Approval of domestication; amendment; abandonment.

178.1154 - Filings required for domestication; effective date.

178.1161 - Restrictions on approval of mergers, interest exchanges, conversions and domestications.

178.1201 - Uniformity of application and construction.

178.1202 - Relation to electronic signatures in global and national commerce act.