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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>74972</law_id><section_number>8.01-304</section_number><catch_line>How process served on copartner or partnership, domestic or foreign limited liability partnership, and domestic or foreign limited partnership</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>28.2-401</reference><reference>8.01-513</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="8.01">Civil Remedies and Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="8">Process</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">Who to Be Served</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Subject to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Service of process; waiver, duty to save costs, request to waive, how served" href="/8.01-286.1/">8.01-286.1</a>, process against a copartner or partnership may be served upon a general partner, and it shall be deemed service upon the partnership and upon each partner individually named in the <span class="dictionary">action</span>, provided the <span class="dictionary">person</span> served is not a <span class="dictionary">plaintiff</span> in the <span class="dictionary">suit</span> and provided the matter in <span class="dictionary">suit</span> is a partnership matter.
			Provided further that process may be served upon a limited partner in any proceeding to enforce a limited partner&#x2019;s liability to the partnership. <a id="paragraph-269342" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.01-304/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> A domestic or foreign limited liability partnership may also be served by personal service on its registered agent as provided in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Registered office and registered agent" href="/50-73.135/">50-73.135</a> and by substituted service in accordance with subsection B of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Effect of merger" href="/50-73.129/">50-73.129</a>, subsection F of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Registered limited liability partnership annual continuation reports; automatic cancellation of registration; restoration of status" href="/50-73.134/">50-73.134</a>, subsection G of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Registered office and registered agent" href="/50-73.135/">50-73.135</a>, or &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Effect of failure of foreign registered limited liability partnership to register" href="/50-73.140/">50-73.140</a>, as applicable. <a id="paragraph-269343" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.01-304/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> A domestic or foreign limited partnership may also be served by personal service on its registered agent as provided in subsection A of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Service on limited partnership" href="/50-73.7/">50-73.7</a> and by substituted service in accordance with subsection B of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Service on limited partnership" href="/50-73.7/">50-73.7</a>, subsection D of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Voluntary cancellation of certificate of registration" href="/50-73.58/">50-73.58</a>, subsection C of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Automatic cancellation of certificate of registration" href="/50-73.58_1/">50-73.58:1</a>, subsection D of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Involuntary cancellation of certificate of registration" href="/50-73.58_2/">50-73.58:2</a>, or subsection E of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Transaction of business without registration" href="/50-73.59/">50-73.59</a>, as applicable. <a id="paragraph-269344" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.01-304/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-59.1; 1950, p. 455; 1977, c. 617; 2005, c. 866; 2024, c. 454.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
