[ Text of section effective until July 1, 2008. For text effective July 1, 2008, see below.]
Section 52. Each foreign limited partnership doing business in the commonwealth shall appoint a resident agent as its true and lawful attorney upon whom all lawful processes in any action or proceeding against such foreign limited partnership in the commonwealth may be served. The provisions of section forty-nine of chapter one hundred and fifty-six B relative to the appointment and qualifications of a resident agent for a corporation shall be applicable to the appointment of a resident agent pursuant to this section. A foreign limited partnership may revoke any such appointment or appoint a new resident agent, and any such resident agent may change his or its business address or resign in substantially the manner set forth in said section forty-nine; provided that each certificate required or permitted to be filed with the secretary of state by the officers of a corporation under said section forty-nine shall be signed on behalf of a foreign limited partnership by a general partner thereof, and each action required or permitted to be taken by the directors of a corporation under said section forty-nine shall be required or permitted in the manner provided in the foreign limited partnership's governing instrument. Compliance with this section shall be deemed compliance with the provisions of section five of chapter two hundred and twenty-seven.
Chapter 109: Section 52. Resident agent
[ Text of section as amended by 2008, 182, Sec. 50 effective July 1, 2008. See 2008, 182, Sec. 121. For text effective until July 1, 2008, see above.]
Section 52. A foreign limited partnership doing business in the commonwealth shall appoint a resident agent as its true and lawful attorney upon whom all lawful process in any action or proceeding against the foreign limited partnership in the commonwealth may be served. Sections 15.07, 15.08 and 15.09 of chapter 156D relative to the appointment and qualifications of a resident agent shall be applicable to the appointment of a resident agent pursuant to this section.