Process against, or notice to, a domestic limited partnership or a foreign limited partnership may be served on any general partner, or on the Secretary of State as statutory attorney-in-fact of such limited partnership as provided in section twenty-six-a of article nine, chapter forty-seven of this code, or on any other person appointed by it to accept service of process in its behalf, or on any agent of such limited partnership. Any foreign limited partnership for which no statutory attorney-in-fact, general partner or agent is found in this state upon whom service may be had, shall be subject to service by publication under this article in the same manner and upon the same conditions and requirements as are foreign corporations for which no statutory attorneys-in-fact, officers, directors or agents are found in this state upon whom service may be had.