To register to do business in this state, a foreign limited partnership must deliver a foreign registration statement to the department for filing. The statement must state all of the following:

Terms Used In Wisconsin Statutes 179.1003

  • Following: when used by way of reference to any statute section, means the section next following that in which the reference is made. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • 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.
  • State: when applied to states of the United States, includes the District of Columbia, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the several territories organized by Congress. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
   (1)   The name of the partnership and, if the name does not comply with s. 179.0114, a fictitious name adopted pursuant to s. 179.1006 (1).
   (2)   That the partnership is a foreign limited partnership.
   (3)   The jurisdiction of the partnership’s governing law.
   (4)   The street and mailing addresses of the partnership’s principal office and, if the partnership’s governing law requires the partnership to maintain an office in the jurisdiction of such governing law, the street and mailing addresses of the required office.
   (5)   The street address of the partnership’s registered office in this state and the name and e-mail address of its registered agent at that office.