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178.44

178.44 Service on registered limited liability partnership.

178.44(1)

(1) A registered limited liability partnership's or foreign registered limited liability partnership's registered agent is the partnership's agent for service of process, notice or demand required or permitted by law to be served on the partnership.

178.44(2)

(2) Except as provided in sub. (3), if a registered limited liability partnership or a foreign registered limited liability partnership has no registered agent or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the partnership may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the partnership at its principal office. Service is perfected under this subsection at the earliest of the following:

178.44(2)(a)

(a) The date on which the partnership receives the mail.

178.44(2)(b)

(b) The date shown on the return receipt, if signed on behalf of the partnership.

178.44(2)(c)

(c) Five days after its deposit in the U.S. mail, if mailed postpaid and correctly addressed.

178.44(3)

(3) If the address of the registered limited liability partnership's or foreign registered limited liability partnership's principal office cannot be determined from the records of the department, the partnership may be served by publishing a class 3 notice, under ch. 985, in the community in which the partnership's principal office or registered office, as most recently designated in the records of the department, is located.

178.44(4)

(4) This section does not limit or affect the right to serve any process, notice or demand required or permitted by law to be served on a registered limited liability partnership or a foreign registered limited liability partnership in any other manner permitted by law.

178.44 - ANNOT.

History: 1995 a. 97.