50-73.4 - Principal office, registered office, and registered agent. - Virginia Statutes

§ 50-73.4. Principal office, registered office, and registered agent.

A. Each domestic limited partnership and each foreign limited partnershipregistered to transact business in the Commonwealth shall continuouslymaintain:

1. A principal office, which shall be a place of its business and which maybut need not be within the Commonwealth, at which shall be kept the recordsrequired to be maintained pursuant to § 50-73.8;

2. A registered office in the Commonwealth that may be the same as any of itsplaces 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) ageneral partner of the limited partnership, (ii) an officer or director of acorporate general partner of the limited partnership, (iii) a general partnerof a general or limited partnership that is a general partner of the limitedpartnership, (iv) a member or manager of a limited liability company that isa general partner of the limited partnership, (v) a trustee of a trust thatis a general partner of the limited partnership, or (vi) a member of theVirginia State Bar and whose business office is identical with the registeredoffice; or

b. A domestic or foreign stock or nonstock corporation, limited liabilitycompany or registered limited liability partnership authorized to transactbusiness in the Commonwealth, the business office of which is identical withthe registered office; provided such a registered agent (i) shall not be itsown registered agent and (ii) shall designate by instrument in writing,acknowledged before a notary public, one or more natural persons at theoffice of the registered agent upon whom any process, notice or demand may beserved and shall continuously maintain at least one such person at thatoffice. Whenever any such person accepts service, a photographic copy of suchinstrument shall be attached to the return.

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

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