Vermont Statutes Title 11 Sec. 3304
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 11 Sec. 3304
- Business: includes every trade, occupation, and profession. See
- Foreign limited liability partnership: means a partnership that:
- Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Partnership: means an association of two or more persons to carry on as co-owners a business for profit formed under section 3212 of this title, predecessor law, or comparable law of another jurisdiction and includes for all purposes of the laws of this State a limited liability partnership. See
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Property: means all property, real, personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interest therein. See
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
- State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See
- Transfer: includes an assignment, conveyance, lease, mortgage, deed, and encumbrance. See
§ 3304. Activities not constituting transacting business
(a) Activities of a foreign limited liability partnership which do not constitute transacting business for the purpose of this subchapter include:
(1) maintaining, defending, or settling an action or proceeding;
(2) holding meetings of its partners or carrying on any other activity concerning its internal affairs;
(3) maintaining bank accounts;
(4) maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of the partnership‘s own securities or maintaining trustees or depositories with respect to those securities;
(5) selling through independent contractors;
(6) soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by mail or through employees or agents or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside this State before they become contracts;
(7) creating or acquiring indebtedness, with or without a mortgage, or other security interest in personal property;
(8) collecting debts or foreclosing mortgages or other security interests in property securing the debts, and holding, protecting, and maintaining property so acquired;
(9) conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within 30 days and is not one in the course of similar transactions; and
(10) transacting business in interstate commerce.
(b) For purposes of this subchapter, the ownership in this State of income producing real property or tangible personal property, other than property excluded under subsection (a) of this section, constitutes transacting business in this State.
(c) This section does not apply in determining the contacts or activities that may subject a foreign limited liability partnership to service of process, taxation, or regulation under any other law of this State. (Added 1997, No. 149 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1999.)