                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PRINCIPAL OFFICE, REGISTERED OFFICE, AND REGISTERED AGENT (§ 50-73.4)

A. Each domestic limited partnership and each foreign limited partnership
registered to transact business in the Commonwealth shall continuously maintain:

   1. A principal office, which shall be a place of its business and which may
   but need not be within the Commonwealth, at which shall be kept the records
   required to be maintained pursuant to &#xA7; 50-73.8;

   2. A registered office in the Commonwealth that may be the same as any of its
   places of business; and

   3. A registered agent, who shall be either:
   				a. An individual who is a resident of the Commonwealth and is either (i) a
   general partner of the limited partnership, (ii) an officer or director of a
   corporate general partner of the limited partnership, (iii) a general partner
   of a general or limited partnership that is a general partner of the limited
   partnership, (iv) a member or manager of a limited liability company that is a
   general partner of the limited partnership, (v) a trustee of a trust that is a
   general partner of the limited partnership, or (vi) a member of the Virginia
   State Bar and whose business office is identical with the registered office;
   or
   				b. A domestic or foreign stock or nonstock corporation, limited liability
   company or registered limited liability partnership authorized to transact
   business in the Commonwealth, the business office of which is identical with
   the registered office; provided such a registered agent (i) shall not be its
   own registered agent and (ii) shall designate by instrument in writing,
   acknowledged before a notary public, one or more natural persons at the office
   of the registered agent upon whom any process, notice or demand may be served
   and shall continuously maintain at least one such person at that office.
   Whenever any such person accepts service, a photographic copy of such
   instrument shall be attached to the return.

B. The sole duty of the registered agent is to forward to the limited
partnership or foreign limited partnership at its last known address any
process, notice or demand that is served on the registered agent.

HISTORY: 1985, c. 607; 1987, c. 702; 1993, c. 292; 2000, cc. 162, 537; 2001, cc.
517, 541; 2007, c. 631; 2010, c. 675.