(a) Any process, notice or demand in connection with any action or proceeding required or permitted by law to be served upon a foreign limited partnership authorized to transact business in this state which is subject to the provisions of section 34-38p, may be served upon the limited partnership's statutory agent for service by any proper officer or other person lawfully empowered to make service.

(b) A foreign limited partnership's agent upon whom process may be served shall be as follows: When the Secretary of the State and his successors have been appointed such limited partnership's agent for service of process, by leaving two true and attested copies thereof together with the required fee at the office of the Secretary of the State or depositing the same in the United States mails, by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, addressed to said office. The Secretary of the State shall file one copy of such process and keep a record of the date and hour of such receipt, and, within two business days after such service, forward by registered or certified mail the other copy of such process to the limited partnership at the address of the office designated in the certificate of registration filed pursuant to section 34-38g, as last shown on his records. Service so made shall be effective as of the date and hour received by the Secretary of the State as shown on his records. If it appears from the records of the Secretary of the State that such a foreign limited partnership has failed to appoint or maintain a statutory agent for service, or if it appears by affidavit attached to the process, notice or demand of the officer or other proper person directed to serve any process, notice or demand upon such a foreign limited partnership's statutory agent for service appearing on the records of the Secretary of the State that such agent cannot, with reasonable diligence, be found, service of such process, notice or demand on such foreign limited partnership may, when timely made, be made by such officer or other proper person by: (1) Leaving a true and attested copy thereof together with the required fee at the office of the Secretary of the State or depositing the same in the United States mails, by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, addressed to said office, and (2) depositing in the United States mails, by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, a true and attested copy thereof, together with a statement by such officer that service is being made pursuant to this section, addressed to such foreign limited partnership at the address of the office designated in the certificate of limited partnership in the state of formation as shown on the records of such state.

(c) The Secretary of the State shall file the copy of each process, notice or demand received by him as provided in subsection (b) of this section, and keep a record of the day and hour of such receipt. Service made as provided in this section shall be effective as of such day and hour.

(d) Nothing in this section contained shall limit or affect the right to serve any process, notice or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon a limited partnership in any other manner permitted by law.

(P.A. 86-379, S. 26; P.A. 87-589, S. 9, 87; P.A. 88-364, S. 51, 123; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-6, S. 105, 117; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1, S. 25, 121.)

History: P.A. 87-589 made technical change in Subsec. (b); P.A. 88-364 made a technical change to remove repeated words; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-6 amended Subsec. (b) to delete the amount of the fees required at the submission of documents; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1 made technical changes in Subsec. (b), effective June 24, 1998.