As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) “Address” means location as described by the full street number, if any, street, city or town, state or country and not a mailing address such as a post office box.

(2) “Certificate of limited partnership” means the certificate referred to in § 34-10 and the certificate as amended or restated.

(3) “Consolidation” means a business combination pursuant to § 34-33b.

(4) “Contribution” means any cash, property, services rendered, or a promissory note or other binding obligation to contribute cash or property or to perform services, which a partner contributes to a limited partnership in his capacity as a partner.

(5) “Deliver” or “delivery” means any method of delivery used in conventional commercial practice including delivery by hand, mail, commercial delivery and electronic transmission.

(6) “Document” includes anything delivered to the office of the Secretary of the State for filing under sections 34-9 to 34-38u, inclusive.

(7) “Electronic transmission” or “electronically transmitted” means any process of communication not directly involving the physical transfer of paper that is suitable for the retention, retrieval and reproduction of information by the recipient.

(8) “Event of withdrawal of a general partner” means an event that causes a person to cease to be a general partner as provided in § 34-28.

(9) “Foreign limited partnership” means a partnership formed under the laws of any state other than this state and having as partners one or more general partners and one or more limited partners.

(10) “General partner” means a person who has been admitted to a limited partnership as a general partner in accordance with the partnership agreement and named in the certificate of limited partnership as a general partner.

(11) “Interests” means the proprietary interests in an other entity.

(12) “Limited partner” means a person who has been admitted to a limited partnership as a limited partner in accordance with the partnership agreement.

(13) “Limited partnership” and “domestic limited partnership” means a partnership formed by two or more persons under the provisions of this chapter and having one or more general partners and one or more limited partners.

(14) “Merger” means a business combination pursuant to § 34-33a.

(15) “Organizational documents” means the basic document or documents that create, or determine the internal governance of, an other entity.

(16) “Other entity” means any association or legal entity, other than a domestic or foreign limited partnership, organized to conduct business, including, but not limited to, a corporation, general partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, joint stock company, business trust, statutory trust and real estate investment trust.

(17) “Partner” means a limited or general partner.

(18) “Partnership agreement” means any valid agreement, written or oral, of the partners as to the affairs of a limited partnership and the conduct of its business.

(19) “Partnership interest” means a partner’s share of the profits and losses of a limited partnership and the right to receive distributions of partnership assets.

(20) “Party to a consolidation” means any domestic or foreign limited partnership or other entity that will consolidate under a plan of consolidation.

(21) “Party to a merger” means any domestic or foreign limited partnership or other entity that will merge under a plan of merger.

(22) “Person” means a natural person, partnership, limited partnership, foreign limited partnership, trust, estate, association, limited liability company or corporation.

(23) “Plan of merger” means a plan entered into pursuant to § 34-33a.

(24) “Plan of consolidation” means a plan entered into pursuant to § 34-33b.

(25) “Sign” or “signature” includes any manual, facsimile, conformed or electronic signature.

(26) “State” means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

(27) “Survivor” means, in a merger or consolidation, the limited partnership or other entity into which one or more other limited partnerships or other entities are merged or consolidated.