486A.1103  Effect of failure to qualify.

1.  A foreign limited liability partnership transacting business in this state may not maintain an action or proceeding in this state unless it has in effect a statement of foreign qualification.

2.  The failure of a foreign limited liability partnership to have in effect a statement of foreign qualification does not impair the validity of a contract or act of the foreign limited liability partnership or preclude it from defending an action or proceeding in this state.

3.  A limitation on personal liability of a partner is not waived solely by transacting business in this state without a statement of foreign qualification.

4.  If a foreign limited liability partnership transacts business in this state without a statement of foreign qualification, the secretary of state is its agent for service of process with respect to a right of action arising out of the transaction of business in this state.

Section History: Recent form

  98 Acts, ch 1201, §57, 79, 82


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