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AB854,89,1010 (b) The dissociation of a person as a general partner.
AB854,89,1211 (c) The appointment of a person to wind up the limited partnership's activities
12and affairs under s. 179.0802 (3) or (4).
AB854,89,16 13(5) If a general partner knows or has notice that any information in a filed
14certificate of limited partnership was inaccurate when the certificate was filed or has
15become inaccurate due to changed circumstances, the general partner shall
16promptly do one of the following to correct the inaccuracy:
AB854,89,1717 (a) Cause the certificate to be amended.
AB854,89,1918 (b) If appropriate, deliver to the department for filing a statement of change
19under s. 179.0118 or a statement of correction under s. 179.0209.
AB854,89,22 20179.0203 Signing of records to be delivered for filing to the
21department.
(1) A record delivered to the department for filing pursuant to this
22chapter must be signed as follows:
AB854,89,2423 (a) An initial certificate of limited partnership must be signed by all general
24partners listed in the certificate.
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1(b) An amendment to the certificate of limited partnership deleting a statement
2that the limited partnership is a limited liability limited partnership must be signed
3by all general partners listed in the certificate.
AB854,90,74 (c) An amendment to the certificate of limited partnership designating as
5general partner a person admitted under s. 179.0801 (1) (c) 2. following the
6dissociation of a limited partnership's last general partner must be signed by that
7person.
AB854,90,108 (d) An amendment to the certificate of limited partnership required by s.
9179.0802 (3) following the appointment of a person to wind up the dissolved limited
10partnership's activities and affairs must be signed by that person.
AB854,90,1211 (e) Any other amendment to the certificate of limited partnership must be
12signed by all of the following:
AB854,90,1313 1. At least one general partner listed in the certificate.
AB854,90,1414 2. Each other person designated in the amendment as a new general partner.
AB854,90,1615 3. Each person that the amendment indicates has dissociated as a general
16partner, unless any of the following applies:
AB854,90,1817 a. The person is deceased or a guardian or general conservator has been
18appointed for the person and the amendment so states.
AB854,90,2019 b. The person has previously delivered to the department for filing a statement
20of dissociation.
AB854,90,2421 (f) A restated certificate of limited partnership must be signed by at least one
22general partner listed in the certificate, and, to the extent the restated certificate
23effects a change under any other paragraph of this subsection, the certificate must
24be signed in a manner that satisfies that paragraph.
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1(g) A statement of termination must be signed by all general partners listed in
2the certificate of limited partnership or, if the certificate of a dissolved limited
3partnership lists no general partners, by the person appointed pursuant to s.
4179.0802 (3) or (4) to wind up the dissolved limited partnership's activities and
5affairs.
AB854,91,86 (h) Any other record delivered by a limited partnership to the department for
7filing must be signed by at least one general partner listed in the certificate of limited
8partnership.
AB854,91,109 (i) A statement by a person pursuant to s. 179.0605 (1) (c) stating that the
10person has dissociated as a general partner must be signed by that person.
AB854,91,1211 (j) A statement of negation by a person pursuant to s. 179.0306, or a statement
12of denial by a person pursuant to s. 179.04025, must be signed by that person.
AB854,91,1413 (k) Any other record delivered on behalf of a person to the department for filing
14must be signed by that person.
AB854,91,18 15(2) Any record delivered for filing under this chapter may be signed by an
16attorney-in-fact. Whenever this chapter requires a particular individual to sign a
17record and the individual is deceased or incompetent, the record may be signed by
18a legal representative of the individual.
AB854,91,20 19(3) A person that signs a record as an attorney-in-fact or legal representative
20affirms as a fact that the person is authorized to sign the record.
AB854,91,24 21179.0204 Signing and filing pursuant to judicial order. (1) If a person
22required by this chapter to sign a record or deliver a record to the department for
23filing under this chapter does not do so, any other person that is aggrieved may
24petition the circuit court to order any of the following:
AB854,91,2525 (a) The person to sign the record.
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1(b) The person to deliver the record to the department for filing.
AB854,92,22 (c) The department to file the record unsigned.
AB854,92,5 3(2) If a petitioner under sub. (1) is not the limited partnership or foreign limited
4partnership to which the record pertains, the petitioner shall make the partnership
5or foreign partnership a party to the action.
AB854,92,6 6(3) A record filed under sub. (1) (c) is effective without being signed.
AB854,92,10 7179.0205 Liability for inaccurate information in filed record. (1) If a
8record delivered to the department for filing under this chapter and filed by the
9department contains inaccurate information, a person that suffers loss by reliance
10on the information may recover damages for the loss from any of the following:
AB854,92,1211 (a) A person that signed the record, or caused another to sign it on the person's
12behalf, and knew the information to be inaccurate at the time the record was signed.
AB854,92,1313 (b) A general partner if all of the following apply:
AB854,92,1414 1. The record was delivered for filing on behalf of the partnership.
AB854,92,1715 2. The general partner knew or had notice of the inaccuracy for a reasonably
16sufficient time before the information was relied upon so that, before the reliance,
17the general partner reasonably could have done any of the following:
AB854,92,1818 a. Effected an amendment under s. 179.0202.
AB854,92,1919 b. Filed a petition under s. 179.0204.
AB854,92,2120 c. Delivered to the department for filing a statement of change under s.
21179.0118 or a statement of correction under s. 179.0209.
AB854,92,24 22(2) An individual who signs a record authorized or required to be filed under
23this chapter affirms under penalty of perjury that the information stated in the
24record is accurate.
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1179.0206 Filing requirements. (1) Subject to sub. (1m), to be filed by the
2department pursuant to this chapter, a record must be received by the department,
3comply with this chapter, and satisfy all of the following:
AB854,93,44 (a) The filing of the record must be required or permitted by this chapter.
AB854,93,65 (b) The record must be physically delivered in written form unless and to the
6extent the department permits electronic delivery of records.
AB854,93,97 (c) The words in the record must be in English, and numbers must be in Arabic
8or Roman numerals, but the name of an entity need not be in English if written in
9English letters or Arabic or Roman numerals.
AB854,93,1110 (d) The record must be signed by a person authorized or required under this
11chapter to sign the record.
AB854,93,1512 (e) The record must state the name and capacity, if any, of each individual who
13signed it, either on behalf of the individual or the person authorized or required to
14sign the record, but need not contain a seal, attestation, acknowledgment, or
15verification.
AB854,93,1616 (f) The record must contain the name of the drafter, if required by s. 182.01 (3).
AB854,93,19 17(1m) The department may waive any of the requirements of sub. (1) (a) to (f)
18if it appears from the face of the document that the document's failure to satisfy the
19requirement is immaterial.
AB854,93,23 20(2) If law other than this chapter prohibits the disclosure by the department
21of information contained in a record delivered to the department for filing, the
22department shall file the record if the record otherwise complies with this chapter
23but may redact the information.
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1(3) When a record is delivered to the department for filing, any fee required
2under this chapter and any fee, interest, or penalty required to be paid to the
3department must be paid in a manner permitted by the department.
AB854,94,5 4(5) The department may provide forms for filings required or permitted to be
5made by this chapter and may require their use.
AB854,94,8 6179.0207 Effective date and time. Except as otherwise provided in s.
7179.0208 and subject to s. 179.0209 (4), a record filed under this chapter is effective
8as follows:
AB854,94,10 9(1) Except as provided in subs. (2) and (3), on the date that it is received by the
10department for filing and at any of the following times on that date:
AB854,94,1111 (a) The time of day specified in the document as its effective time.
AB854,94,1212 (b) If no effective time is specified, at the close of business.
AB854,94,14 13(2) The date that a document is received by the department is determined by
14the department's endorsement on the original document under s. 179.0210 (2).
AB854,94,20 15(3) A document may specify a delayed effective date and time, except the
16effective date may not be more than 90 days after the date that it is received for filing.
17If a document specifies a delayed effective date and time in accordance with this
18subsection, the document is effective at the time and date specified. If a delayed
19effective date, but no time, is specified, the document is effective at the close of
20business on that date.
AB854,94,24 21179.0208 Withdrawal of filed record before effectiveness. (1) Except as
22otherwise provided in ss. 179.1123 (2), 179.1133 (2), 179.1143 (2), and 179.1153 (2),
23a record delivered to the department for filing may be withdrawn before it takes
24effect by delivering to the department for filing a statement of withdrawal.
AB854,94,25 25(2) A statement of withdrawal must satisfy all of the following:
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1(a) It must be signed by each person that signed the record being withdrawn,
2except as otherwise agreed by those persons.
AB854,95,33 (b) It must identify the record to be withdrawn.
AB854,95,64 (c) If signed by fewer than all the persons that signed the record being
5withdrawn, it must state that the record is withdrawn in accordance with the
6agreement of all the persons that signed the record.
AB854,95,8 7(3) On filing by the department of a statement of withdrawal, the action or
8transaction evidenced by the original record does not take effect.
AB854,95,11 9179.0209 Correcting filed record. (1) A person on whose behalf a filed
10record was delivered to the department for filing may correct the record if any of the
11following applies:
AB854,95,1212 (a) The record at the time of filing was inaccurate.
AB854,95,1313 (b) The record was defectively signed.
AB854,95,1414 (c) The electronic transmission of the record to the department was defective.
AB854,95,16 15(2) To correct a filed record, a person on whose behalf the record was delivered
16to the department must deliver to the department for filing a statement of correction.
AB854,95,17 17(3) (a) A statement of correction may not state a delayed effective date.
AB854,95,1818 (b) A statement of correction must satisfy all of the following:
AB854,95,1919 1. It must be signed by the person correcting the filed record.
AB854,95,2020 2. It must identify the filed record to be corrected.
AB854,95,2121 3. It must specify the inaccuracy or defect to be corrected.
AB854,95,2222 4. It must correct the inaccuracy or defect.
AB854,96,2 23(4) A statement of correction is effective as of the effective date of the filed
24record that it corrects except for purposes of s. 179.0103 (4) and as to persons relying

1on the uncorrected filed record and adversely affected by the correction. For those
2purposes and as to those persons, the statement of correction is effective when filed.
AB854,96,6 3179.0210 Duty of department to file; review of refusal to file; delivery
4of record by department. (1)
The department shall file a record delivered to the
5department for filing which satisfies this chapter. The duty of the department under
6this section is ministerial.
AB854,96,11 7(2) When the department files a record, the department shall record it as filed
8on the date of its delivery. After filing a record, the department shall deliver to the
9person that submitted the record a copy of the record with an acknowledgment of the
10date of filing and, in the case of a statement of denial, also to the limited partnership
11to which the statement pertains.
AB854,96,13 12(3) If the department refuses to file a record, the department shall, not later
13than 5 business days after the record is delivered, do all of the following:
AB854,96,1514 (a) Return the record or notify the person that submitted the record of the
15refusal.
AB854,96,1616 (b) Provide a brief explanation in a record of the reason for the refusal.
AB854,96,20 17(4) If the department refuses to file a record, the person that submitted the
18record may petition the circuit court to compel filing of the record. The record and
19the explanation of the department of the refusal to file must be attached to the
20petition. The court may decide the matter in a summary proceeding.
AB854,96,22 21(5) The filing of or refusal to file a record does not create a presumption of any
22of the following:
AB854,96,2323 (a) That the record does or does not conform to the requirements of this chapter.
AB854,96,2424 (b) That the information contained in the record is correct or incorrect.
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1(6) Except as otherwise provided by s. 179.0121 or by law other than this
2chapter, the department may deliver any record to a person by delivering it in any
3of the following ways:
AB854,97,44 (a) In person to the person that submitted it.
AB854,97,55 (b) To the address of the person's registered agent.
AB854,97,66 (c) To the principal office of the person.
AB854,97,77 (d) To another address the person provides to the department for delivery.
AB854,97,10 8179.0211 Certificate of status. (1) Any person may obtain from the
9department, upon request, a certificate of status for a limited partnership or
10registered foreign limited partnership.
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