§425-17  Withdrawal procedure for foreigngeneral partnership.  (a)  Any foreign general partnership which hasqualified to transact business in this State may withdraw and surrender itsright to engage in business within this State by securing from the director ofcommerce and consumer affairs a certificate of withdrawal.  Any such generalpartnership shall file in the office of the director an application forwithdrawal, certified and signed by a general partner, which shall set forth:

(1)  The name of the foreign general partnership, andthe state or country under the laws of which it is formed;

(2)  That the foreign general partnership is nottransacting business in this State;

(3)  That the foreign general partnership surrendersits authority to transact business in this State;

(4)  That the foreign general partnership revokes theauthority of its registered agent in this State to accept service of process,and consents that service of process in any action, suit, or proceeding basedupon any cause of action arising in this State during the time the partnershipwas authorized to transact business in this State may thereafter be made on thepartnership by service thereof on the director;

(5)  The dates that notice of the foreign generalpartnership's intent to withdraw from the State was published, once in each offour successive weeks (four publications) in a daily or weekly publication ofstatewide circulation or in separate daily or weekly publications whosecombined circulation is statewide, or a statement that publication was notmade;

(6)  That all taxes, debts, obligations, andliabilities of the foreign general partnership in this State have been paid anddischarged or that adequate provision has been made therefor;

(7)  A mailing address to which the director may maila copy of any process against the foreign general partnership that may beserved on the director; and

(8)  Such additional information as may be necessaryor appropriate to enable the director to determine and assess any unpaid feespayable by the foreign general partnership.

(b)  Upon the filing of the application forwithdrawal, and after the payment of a fee of $10, the director shall issue acertificate of withdrawal, which shall be effective as of the date of thefiling of the application for withdrawal, and the authority of the foreigngeneral partnership to transact business in this State shall then cease.  Nosuch general partnership may withdraw from this State without complying withthe aforesaid conditions and until such compliance, service of legal noticesand processes may be made on any agent of the general partnership within thisState, or if none can be found, service of such notices and processes upon thedirector of commerce and consumer affairs shall be deemed sufficient service ofsuch notices and processes upon it. [L 1969, c 247, pt of §1; am L 1980, c 270,§6; am L 1982, c 204, §8; am L 1983, c 124, §17; gen ch 1985; am L 1993, c 174,§8; am L 1996, c 181, §4; am L 2000, c 219, §55; am L 2001, c 129, §72]