Terms Used In Wisconsin Statutes 179.1009

  • 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)    When a registered foreign limited partnership has merged into a foreign entity that is not registered to do business in this state or has converted to a foreign entity required to register with the department to do business in this state, the foreign entity shall deliver to the department for filing an application for transfer of registration. The application must state all of the following:
      (a)    The name of the registered foreign limited partnership before the merger or conversion.
      (b)    That before the merger or conversion the registration pertained to a foreign limited partnership.
      (c)    The name of the applicant foreign entity into which the foreign limited partnership has merged or to which it has been converted and, if the name does not comply with s. 179.0114, a fictitious name adopted pursuant to s. 179.1006 (1).
      (d)    The type of entity of the applicant foreign entity and the jurisdiction of its governing law.
      (e)    The street and mailing addresses of the principal office of the applicant foreign entity and, if the foreign limited partnership’s governing law requires the entity to maintain an office in the jurisdiction of that governing law, the street and mailing addresses of that office.
      (f)    The street address of the applicant foreign entity’s registered office in this state and the name and e-mail address of its registered agent at that address.
   (2)   When an application for transfer of registration takes effect, the registration of the foreign limited partnership to do business in this state is transferred without interruption to the foreign entity into which the partnership has merged or to which it has been converted.