Arizona Laws 29-1104. Designated office and agent for service of process
A. A limited liability partnership and a foreign limited liability partnership authorized to do business in this state shall designate and continuously maintain in this state a statutory agent for service of process on the limited liability partnership. The sole duty of the statutory agent is to forward to the registered limited liability partnership or foreign registered limited liability partnership at its last known address any process, notice or demand that is served on the statutory agent.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 29-1104
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Business: includes every trade, occupation and profession. See Arizona Laws 29-1001
- Chief executive office: means the place from which the main part of the partnership's business is managed. See Arizona Laws 29-1001
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Foreign limited liability partnership: means a partnership or limited partnership that is formed or created under laws other than the laws of this state and that is qualified as a limited liability partnership under those laws. See Arizona Laws 29-1001
- Limited liability partnership: means a partnership or limited partnership that has filed a statement of qualification under section 29-1101. See Arizona Laws 29-1001
- 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 or entity formed under section 29-1012, a predecessor law or a comparable law of another jurisdiction. See Arizona Laws 29-1001
- Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- 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 Arizona Laws 29-1001
- Statement: means a statement of partnership authority under section 29-1023, a statement of denial under section 29-1024, a statement of dissociation under section 29-1064, a statement of dissolution under section 29-1075, a statement of merger under section 29-2205, a statement of qualification as a limited liability partnership under section 29-1101, a statement of foreign qualification under section 29-1106 or an amendment or cancellation of any of the foregoing. See Arizona Laws 29-1001
B. An agent must be an individual resident of this state, a domestic corporation, a domestic limited liability company, a foreign corporation or foreign limited liability company authorized to do business in this state.
C. A limited liability partnership or a foreign limited liability partnership may change its agent for service of process by filing an amendment to the statement as provided in section 29-1005, subsection D. An amendment or cancellation is effective at the time of its filing unless a later date is set forth in the certificate of amendment.
D. An agent for service of process may resign by signing and filing with the office of the secretary of state a certificate of resignation. The secretary of state shall mail a copy of the filed certificate to the limited liability partnership at its chief executive office. An agency is terminated on the thirty-first day after the certificate is filed with the office of the secretary of state.
E. A notice of change in statutory agent shall be executed promptly by a limited liability partnership or foreign limited liability partnership whenever its statutory agent dies, resigns or ceases to satisfy the requirements of this section. If a limited liability partnership or a foreign limited liability partnership fails to appoint or maintain an agent for service of process in this state or the agent for service of process cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the agent’s address, the secretary of state is an agent of the partnership upon whom process, notice or demand may be served.
F. If a statutory agent changes his business address to another place within this state, he shall change his address for any limited liability partnership or foreign limited liability partnership of which he is a statutory agent by filing a notice signed, either manually or in facsimile by the statutory agent, and reciting that a copy of the notice has been mailed to the limited liability partnership at its chief executive office.
G. The statutory agent of a limited liability partnership or foreign limited liability partnership is the limited liability partnership’s agent for service of process, notice or demand required or permitted by law to be served on the limited liability partnership. This section does not prescribe the only means of serving a limited liability partnership or a foreign limited liability partnership.