2018 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 34 - Limited Partnerships, Partnerships, Professional Associations, Limited Liability Companies and Statutory Trusts
Chapter 614 - Uniform Partnership Act. Limited Liability Partnerships
Section 34-411 - (Formerly Sec. 34-81x). Domestic and foreign limited liability partnerships: Filing of documents.
(a) The original signed copy of a certificate of limited liability partnership of a registered limited liability partnership or the certificate of authority of a foreign registered limited liability partnership or of any other document required to be filed pursuant to sections 34-300 to 34-434, inclusive, shall be delivered to the Secretary of the State. Unless the Secretary of the State determines that the documents do not conform to the filing provisions of said sections, he shall, when all required filing fees have been paid: (1) Endorse on each signed original “filed” and the date and time of its acceptance for filing; and (2) retain the signed original in his files.
(b) When any document is required or permitted to be filed or recorded as provided in sections 34-300 to 34-434, inclusive, the Secretary of the State may, in the Secretary of the State's discretion, for good cause, permit a photostatic or other photographic copy of such document to be filed or recorded in lieu of the original instrument. Such filing or recording shall have the same force and effect as if the original instrument had been so filed or recorded.
(c) The Secretary of the State may require or permit the filing by electronic transmission or by employing new technology as it is developed of any document that is required by law or regulation under sections 34-300 to 34-434, inclusive, to be filed with the Secretary of the State.
(d) If the Secretary of the State determines that the documents do not conform to the filing provisions of sections 34-300 to 34-434, inclusive, or are not accompanied by all fees required by law, the documents shall not be filed and the Secretary of the State shall return the documents to the person originally submitting them.
(P.A. 94-218, S. 25, 28; P.A. 96-77, S. 8, 17; P.A. 11-146, S. 14.)
History: P.A. 94-218 effective January 1, 1996; P.A. 96-77 replaced references to “sections 34-40, 34-44, 34-53, 34-56, 34-72, 34-74, 34-78 and 34-81a to 34-81z, inclusive,” with “sections 34-300 to 34-434, inclusive,” effective July 1, 1997; Sec. 34-81x transferred to Sec. 34-411 in 1997; P.A. 11-146 added new Subsec. (b) re authority of Secretary of the State for good cause to permit filing or recording of a photostatic or other photographic copy of a document in lieu of original instrument and the effect thereof, added new Subsec. (c) re authority of Secretary of the State to require or permit filing by electronic transmission or by employing new technology as it is developed of any document required to be filed with said Secretary and redesignated existing Subsec. (b) as Subsec. (d), effective January 1, 2012.
