Iowa Code 488.902 – Application for certificate of authority
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1. A foreign limited partnership may apply for a certificate of authority to transact business in this state by delivering an application to the secretary of state for filing. The application must state all of the following:
a. The name of the foreign limited partnership and, if the name does not comply with section 488.108, an alternate name adopted pursuant to section 488.905, subsection 1.
b. The name of the state or other jurisdiction under whose law the foreign limited partnership is organized.
c. The street and mailing address of the foreign limited partnership’s principal office and, if the laws of the jurisdiction under which the foreign limited partnership is organized require the foreign limited partnership to maintain an office in that jurisdiction, the street and mailing address of the required office.
d. The name and street and mailing address of the foreign limited partnership’s initial registered agent for service of process in this state.
e. The name and street and mailing address of each of the foreign limited partnership’s general partners.
f. Whether the foreign limited partnership is a foreign limited liability limited partnership.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 488.902
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Foreign limited liability limited partnership: means a foreign limited partnership whose general partners have limited liability for the obligations of the foreign limited partnership under a provision similar to section 488. See Iowa Code 488.102
- Foreign limited partnership: means a partnership formed under the laws of a jurisdiction other than Iowa and required by those laws to have one or more general partners and one or more limited partners. See Iowa Code 488.102
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- 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.
- Principal office: means the office where the principal executive office of a limited partnership or foreign limited partnership is located, whether or not the office is located in this state. See Iowa Code 488.102
- Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Iowa Code 488.102
- 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, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Iowa Code 488.102
2. A foreign limited partnership shall deliver with the completed application a certificate of existence or a record of similar import signed by the secretary of state or other official having custody of the foreign limited partnership’s publicly filed records in the state or other jurisdiction under whose law the foreign limited partnership is organized.