§821.__Registration

1.__Filing of certificate.__A partnership formed under the Uniform Partnership Act may be registered as a registered limited liability partnership by signing and filing a certificate of limited liability partnership with the Secretary of State.

2.__Terms and conditions.__The terms and conditions on which a partnership becomes a limited liability partnership must be approved by the vote necessary to amend the partnership agreement or, in the case of a partnership agreement that expressly considers obligations to contribute to the partnership, by the vote necessary to amend those provisions.

Sec. B-3. 31 MRSA §822, sub-§1, śC, as enacted by PL 1995, c. 633, Pt. B, §1, is amended to read:

C. The name and the business, residence or mailing address of the contact partner; and

Sec. B-4. 31 MRSA §822, sub-§1, śC-1 is enacted to read:

C-1.__The street address of the partnership's chief executive office and, if different, the street address of an office in the State, if any; and

Sec. B-5. 31 MRSA §822, sub-§3 is enacted to read:

3.__Errors; later changes.__The status of a partnership as a limited liability partnership and the liability of its partners is not affected by errors or later changes in the information required to be contained in the certificate under subsection 1.

Sec. B-6. 31 MRSA §858, as enacted by PL 1995, c. 633, Pt. B, §1, is repealed.

Sec. B-7. 31 MRSA §858-A is enacted to read:

§858-A.__Effect of failure to qualify

1.__No action or proceeding until granted authority; fees paid.__A foreign limited liability partnership transacting business in this State may not maintain an action or proceeding in this State until it is granted authority to do business in this State and pays to the State all fees and penalties for the years or parts of years during which it did business in this State without having been granted authority to do business.