§425-162 - Foreign limited liability partnerships; activities not constituting the transaction of business.

     §425-162  Foreign limited liability partnerships; activities not constituting the transaction of business.  (a)  Activities of a foreign limited liability partnership that do not constitute the transaction of business include:

     (1)  Maintaining, defending, or settling an action or proceeding;

     (2)  Holding meetings of its partners or carrying on any other activity concerning its affairs;

     (3)  Maintaining bank accounts;

     (4)  Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of the partnership's own securities, or maintaining trustees or depositories with respect to those securities;

     (5)  Selling through independent contractors;

     (6)  Soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by mail or through employees, agents, or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside this State before they become contracts;

     (7)  Creating or acquiring indebtedness, with or without a mortgage, or other security interest in property;

     (8)  Collecting debts or foreclosing mortgages or other security interests in property securing the debts, and holding, protecting, and maintaining property so acquired;

     (9)  Conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within thirty days and is not one in the course of similar transactions; and

    (10)  Transacting business in interstate commerce.

     (b)  The ownership in this State of income-producing real property or income-producing tangible personal property, other than property excluded under subsection (a), constitutes the transaction of business in this State.

     (c)  This section shall not apply to a determination of contracts or activities that may subject a foreign limited liability partnership to service of process, taxation, or regulation under any other law of this State. [L 2000, c 218, pt of §1; am L 2002, c 130, §90]