Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 178 - Uniform partnership law.
178.0907 - Registration of name.

178.0907 Registration of name.
(1) A foreign limited liability partnership not registered to do business in this state under subch. X may register its name, or a fictitious name adopted pursuant to s. 178.1006 (1), if the name is distinguishable on the records of the department from the names that are not available under s. 178.0902.
(2) To register its name or a fictitious name adopted pursuant to s. 178.1006 (1), a foreign limited liability partnership must deliver to the department for filing an application stating the partnership's name, the jurisdiction and date of its formation, and any fictitious name adopted pursuant to s. 178.1006 (1). If the department finds that the name applied for is available, the department shall register the name for the applicant's exclusive use.
(3) The registration of a name under this section expires annually on December 31.
(4) A foreign limited liability partnership whose name registration is effective may renew the registration by delivering to the department for filing, between October 31 and December 31 of each year that the registration is in effect, a renewal application that complies with this section. When filed, the renewal application renews the registration for the next year.
(5) A foreign limited liability partnership whose name registration is effective may register as a foreign limited liability partnership under the registered name or consent in a signed record to the use of that name by another person that is not an individual.
History: 2015 a. 295.

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.