                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EFFECT OF FAILURE OF FOREIGN REGISTERED LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIP TO
REGISTER (§ 50-73.140)

The failure of a foreign registered limited liability partnership to file a
statement of registration or to maintain that registration or to appoint and
maintain a registered agent in this Commonwealth as required in § 50-73.135
shall not impair the validity of any contract or act of the foreign registered
limited liability partnership and shall neither prevent the foreign registered
limited liability partnership from defending any action or proceeding in any
court of this Commonwealth nor affect the application of the laws of the
jurisdiction governing the agreement under which it was formed as provided in
subsection E of § 50-73.141, but the foreign registered limited liability
partnership may not maintain any action or proceeding in any court of this
Commonwealth until it has filed an application for registration. A foreign
registered limited liability partnership, by transacting business in this
Commonwealth without registration, appoints the clerk of the Commission as its
agent for service of process with respect to causes of action arising out of the
transaction of business in this Commonwealth. Service on that foreign registered
limited liability partnership shall be made on the clerk of the Commission in
accordance with § 12.1-19.1.

HISTORY: 1996, c. 292.