(a) A limited partnership‘s registered agent is the limited partnership’s agent for service of process, notice or demand required or permitted by law to be served on the limited partnership.
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 61-2-105
Foreign limited partnership: includes a partnership formed under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the state of Tennessee and having as partners one (1) or more general partners and one (1) or more limited partners. See Tennessee Code 61-2-101
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.
Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) Whenever a domestic or foreign limited partnership authorized to do business in this state fails to appoint or maintain a registered agent in this state, whenever its registered agent cannot be found with reasonable diligence, whenever a foreign limited partnership shall transact business or conduct affairs in this state without first submitting an application for registration with the secretary of state, or whenever the registration of a foreign limited partnership shall have been cancelled, then the secretary of state shall be an agent of such limited partnership upon whom any such process, notice or demand may be served.(c) Whenever a domestic or foreign limited partnership authorized to do business in this state is an employer within the meaning of the Workers’ Compensation Law, compiled in title 50, chapter 6, and such limited partnership is, for the purpose of such workers’ compensation, self-insured or a part of a self-insurance pool as provided in title 50, chapter 6, part 4, such limited partnership shall, for workers’ compensation actions only, be required to appoint the commissioner of commerce and insurance and his chief deputy, or their successors, as its true and lawful attorneys upon either of whom all lawful process in any such action or legal proceeding may be served, as is required of insurance companies by § 56-2-103.(d) This section does not prescribe the only means, or necessarily the required means, of serving a limited partnership.
