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VA Code § 49-27 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 49 - Oaths, Affirmations and Bonds|Chapter 3 - Relief of Sureties|§ 49-27. Surety's remedy against principal for money paid

If any person liable as bail, surety, guarantor or endorser, or any sheriff liable for not taking sufficient bail, or the committee, heir or personal representative of any so liable, pay, in whole or in part, such note, bond or other demand, or any judgment, decree or execution rendered or awarded on account of such liability, the person having a right of action for the amount so paid may, by motion in the court in which the judgment, decree or execution was rendered or awarded, obtain a judgment or decree against any person against whom such right of action exists for the amount so paid, with interest from the time of payment, and five per centum damages on such amount. The person so paying, in whole or in part, any such judgment, decree or execution rendered or awarded on account of such liability, or any such note, bond or other demand, shall, by operation of law, in addition to the remedy above provided, be substituted to and become the owner of all of the rights and remedies of the creditor for the enforcement and collection of the amount or amounts so paid, and shall be deemed the assignee thereof. Executions, or other legal process to which the principal creditor was entitled, may be issued on any such judgment or decree in the name of the original creditor against the person primarily liable for the benefit of the person secondarily liable to the extent to which he has satisfied the original creditor.But nothing in this section shall be construed to impair or affect in any way the security of the original creditor, or his rights and remedies as to any balance which may be due him. The provisions of this section are cumulative and are intended to protect the rights of any person secondarily liable to the extent to which he has satisfied the obligation of the person primarily liable. All assignments heretofore made of judgments and decrees to persons secondarily liable are hereby validated, and upon the same executions may be issued as hereinbefore provided.Code 1919, § 5777; 1926, p. 854.
VA Code § 49-28 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 49 - Oaths, Affirmations and Bonds|Chapter 3 - Relief of Sureties|§ 49-28. Confession of judgment by surety or failure to notify principal to defend

If any such surety, other than bail, or his committee, heir or personal representative, confess judgment, or suffer judgment to go against him by default, without giving notice to his principal, if he be a resident of the Commonwealth, or his committee or personal representative, to defend the suit, and after such principal offers to defend the suit, and tenders counter security, approved by the court in which the suit is pending, the principal, or his committee, heirs or representative, may have the benefit of every defense against the motion or suit of such surety, or his committee, representative or heirs, against him that he might have had against the creditor.Code 1919, § 5778.
VA Code § 49-29 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 49 - Oaths, Affirmations and Bonds|Chapter 3 - Relief of Sureties|§ 49-29. Failure of principal to offer to defend suit against surety

In all cases in which any principal debtor, or his committee, representative or heirs, knowing of the pendency of any suit against his surety, or the committee, heir or personal representative of such surety, shall not offer to defend such suit, he shall be precluded from making any defense to the claim of the surety which he might have made against the suit of the creditor.Code 1919, § 5778.
VA Code § 50-73.3 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 50 - Partnerships|Chapter 2.1 - Virginia Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act|§ 50-73.3. Reserved name

A. A person may apply to the Commission to reserve the exclusive use of a limited partnership name, including a designated name for a foreign limited partnership. The limited partnership name applied for need not comply with subsection A of § 50-73.2. If the Commission finds that the limited partnership name is distinguishable upon the records of the Commission, it shall reserve the name for the applicant's exclusive use for a 120-day period.B. The owner of a reserved limited partnership name may renew the reservation for successive 120-day periods each by filing with the Commission, during the 45-day period preceding the date of expiration of the reservation, a renewal application.C. The owner of a reserved limited partnership name may transfer the reservation to any other person by delivering to the Commission a notice of the transfer, signed by the applicant for whom the name was reserved and specifying the name and address of the transferee.D. A reserved limited partnership name may be used by its owner in connection with (i) the formation or an amendment to change the name of a domestic stock or nonstock corporation, limited liability company, business trust, or limited partnership; (ii) an application for a certificate of authority or registration to transact business in the Commonwealth as a foreign stock or nonstock corporation, limited liability company, business trust, or limited partnership; or (iii) an amended application for such authority or registration, provided that the proposed name complies with the provisions of § 13.1-630, 13.1-762, 13.1-829, 13.1-924, 13.1-1012, 13.1-1054, 13.1-1214, 13.1-1244, 50-73.2, or 50-73.56, as the case may be.1985, c. 607; 2006, c. 505; 2015, c. 444.
VA Code § 50-73.4 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 50 - Partnerships|Chapter 2.1 - Virginia Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act|§ 50-73.4. Principal office, registered office, and registered agent

A. Each domestic limited partnership and each foreign limited partnership registered to transact business in the Commonwealth shall continuously maintain:1. A principal office, which shall be a place of its business and which may but need not be within the Commonwealth, at which shall be kept the records required to be maintained pursuant to § 50-73.8;2. A registered office in the Commonwealth that may be the same as any of its places of business; and3. A registered agent, who shall be either:a. An individual who is a resident of the Commonwealth and is either (i) a general partner of the limited partnership, (ii) an officer or director of a corporate general partner of the limited partnership, (iii) a general partner of a general or limited partnership that is a general partner of the limited partnership, (iv) a member or manager of a limited liability company that is a general partner of the limited partnership, (v) a trustee of a trust that is a general partner of the limited partnership, or (vi) a member of the Virginia State Bar and whose business office is identical with the registered office; orb. A domestic or foreign stock or nonstock corporation, limited liability company or registered limited liability partnership authorized to transact business in the Commonwealth, the business office of which is identical with the registered office; provided such a registered agent (i) shall not be its own registered agent and (ii) shall designate by instrument in writing, acknowledged before a notary public, one or more natural persons at the office of the registered agent upon whom any process, notice or demand may be served and shall continuously maintain at least one such person at that office. Whenever any such person accepts service, a photographic copy of such instrument shall be attached to the return.B. The sole duty of the registered agent is to forward to the limited partnership or foreign limited partnership at its last known address any process, 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.
VA Code § 50-73.5 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 50 - Partnerships|Chapter 2.1 - Virginia Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act|§ 50-73.5. Change of registered office or registered agent

A. A limited partnership or a foreign limited partnership registered to transact business in the Commonwealth may change its registered office or registered agent, or both, upon filing with the Commission a statement of change on a form prescribed and furnished by the Commission that sets forth:1. The name of the domestic or foreign limited partnership;2. The address of its current registered office;3. If the current registered office is to be changed, the post office address, including the street and number, if any, of the new registered office, and the name of the city or county in which it is to be located;4. The name of its current registered agent;5. If the current registered agent is to be changed, the name of the new registered agent; and6. That after the change or changes are made, the domestic or foreign limited partnership will be in compliance with the requirements of § 50-73.4.B. A statement of change shall forthwith be filed with the Commission by a domestic or foreign limited partnership whenever its registered agent dies, resigns or ceases to satisfy the requirements of § 50-73.4.C. Except as provided in subsection D, a statement of change shall be executed on behalf of a domestic or foreign limited partnership by a general partner or a liquidating trustee or, if there are no general partners or liquidating trustees, by a limited partner.D. A domestic or foreign limited partnership's registered agent may sign a statement as required above if (i) the business address of the registered agent changes to another post office address within the Commonwealth or (ii) the name of the registered agent has been legally changed. A domestic or foreign limited partnership's new registered agent may sign and submit for filing a statement as required above if (a) the former registered agent is a business entity that has been merged into the new registered agent, (b) the instrument of merger is on record in the office of the clerk of the Commission, and (c) the new registered agent is an entity that is qualified to serve as a registered agent pursuant to § 50-73.4. In either instance, the registered agent or surviving entity shall forthwith file a statement as required above, which shall recite that a copy of the statement shall be mailed to the principal office address of the domestic or foreign limited partnership on or before the business day following the day on which the statement is filed.1985, c. 607; 1987, c. 702; 1991, c. 225; 2003, c. 597; 2007, c. 631; 2010, c. 675.
VA Code § 50-73.6 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 50 - Partnerships|Chapter 2.1 - Virginia Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act|§ 50-73.6. Resignation of registered agent

A. A registered agent may resign as agent for the domestic or foreign limited partnership by signing and filing with the Commission a statement of resignation stating (i) the name of the limited partnership or foreign limited partnership, (ii) the name of the agent, and (iii) that the agent resigns from serving as registered agent for the domestic or foreign limited partnership. The statement of resignation shall be accompanied by a certification that the registered agent will have a copy of the statement mailed to the principal office of the domestic or foreign limited partnership by certified mail on or before the business day following the day on which the statement is filed. When the statement of resignation takes effect, the registered office is also discontinued.B. A statement of resignation takes effect on the earlier of (i) 12:01 a.m. on the thirty-first day after the date on which the statement was filed with the Commission or (ii) the date on which a statement of change to appoint a registered agent is filed, in accordance with § 50-73.5, with the Commission.1985, c. 607; 2010, c. 434; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 487.
VA Code § 50-73.7 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 50 - Partnerships|Chapter 2.1 - Virginia Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act|§ 50-73.7. Service on limited partnership

A. A domestic or foreign limited partnership's registered agent is the limited partnership's agent for service of process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served on the limited partnership. The registered agent, by instrument in writing, acknowledged before a notary public, may designate a natural person or persons in the office of the registered agent upon whom any such process, notice or demand may be served. Whenever any such person accepts service of process, a photographic copy of such instrument shall be attached to the return.B. Whenever a domestic or foreign limited partnership fails to appoint or maintain a registered agent in the Commonwealth, or whenever its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the registered office, then the clerk of the Commission shall be an agent of the limited partnership upon whom service may be made in accordance with § 12.1-19.1.C. This section does not prescribe the only means, or necessarily the required means, of serving a domestic or foreign limited partnership.1985, c. 607; 1991, c. 672; 2001, cc. 517, 541; 2007, c. 631.
VA Code § 50-73.8 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 50 - Partnerships|Chapter 2.1 - Virginia Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act|§ 50-73.8. Records to be kept

A. Each limited partnership shall keep at its principal office the following:1. A current list of the full name and last known business address of each partner, separately identifying the general partners in alphabetical order and the limited partners in alphabetical order;2. A copy of the certificate of limited partnership and all certificates of amendment thereto, together with executed copies of any powers of attorney pursuant to which any certificate has been executed;3. Copies of the limited partnership's federal, state and local income tax returns and reports, if any, for the three most recent years;4. Copies of any then-effective written partnership agreements and of any financial statements of the limited partnership for the three most recent years; and5. Unless contained in a written partnership agreement, a writing setting out:a. The amount of cash and a description and statement of the agreed value of the other property or services contributed by each partner and which each partner has agreed to contribute;b. The times at which or events on the happening of which any additional contributions agreed to be made by each partner are to be made;c. Any right of a partner to receive, or of a general partner to make, distributions to a partner which include a return of all or any part of the partner's contribution; andd. Any events upon the happening of which the limited partnership is to be dissolved and its affairs wound up.B. Records kept under this section are subject to inspection and copying at the reasonable request, and at the expense, of any partner during ordinary business hours.1985, c. 607; 1987, c. 702; 2010, c. 675.
VA Code § 50-73.9 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 50 - Partnerships|Chapter 2.1 - Virginia Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act|§ 50-73.9. Nature of business

A limited partnership may carry on any business that a partnership without limited partners may carry on.1985, c. 607.
VA Code § 50-73.10 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 50 - Partnerships|Chapter 2.1 - Virginia Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act|§ 50-73.10. Business transactions of partner with partnership

Except as provided in the partnership agreement, a partner may lend money to and transact other business with the limited partnership and, subject to other applicable law, has the same rights and obligations with respect thereto as a person who is not a partner.1985, c. 607.
VA Code § 50-73.10:1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 50 - Partnerships|Chapter 2.1 - Virginia Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act|§ 50-73.10:1. Unlawful to transact or offer to transact business as a limited partnership unless authorized; penalty

It shall be unlawful for any person to transact business in the Commonwealth as a limited partnership or to offer or advertise to transact business in the Commonwealth as a limited partnership unless the alleged limited partnership is either a domestic limited partnership or a foreign limited partnership authorized to transact business in the Commonwealth. Any person who violates this section shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.2007, c. 631.
VA Code § 50-73.11 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 50 - Partnerships|Chapter 2.1 - Virginia Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act|§ 50-73.11. Certificate of limited partnership

A. In order to form a limited partnership, a certificate of limited partnership shall be executed and filed with the Commission and shall set forth:1. The name of the limited partnership that satisfies the requirements of § 50-73.2;2. The post office address, including the street and number, if any, of the limited partnership's initial registered office, the name of the city or county in which it is located, the name of its initial registered agent at that office, and that the agent is either (i) an individual who is a resident of Virginia and either a general partner of the limited partnership, an officer or director of a corporate general partner of the limited partnership, a general partner of a partnership or limited partnership that is a general partner of the limited partnership, a member or manager of a limited liability company that is a general partner of the limited partnership, a trustee of a trust that is a general partner of the limited partnership, or a member of the Virginia State Bar or (ii) a domestic or foreign stock or nonstock corporation, limited liability company or registered limited liability partnership authorized to transact business in the Commonwealth;3. The name and the post office address, including the street and number, if any, of each general partner and, if a general partner is a business entity, the jurisdiction under whose law it is incorporated, organized, or formed and, if the general partner is of record with the Commission, the identification number issued by the Commission to such general partner; and4. The post office address, including the street and number, if any, of the principal office of the limited partnership, which may be the same as the registered office but need not be within the Commonwealth.B. The certificate of limited partnership may set forth any other matter that the general partners determine to include therein.C. A limited partnership is formed at the time of the filing of the certificate of limited partnership with the Commission unless a later date and time are specified in the certificate of limited partnership as provided by § 50-73.17 if, in either case, there has been substantial compliance with the requirements of this section.1985, c. 607; 1987, c. 702; 1993, c. 292; 2001, cc. 517, 541; 2003, c. 378; 2007, c. 631; 2010, c. 675; 2013, c. 18.
VA Code § 50-73.11:3 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 50 - Partnerships|Chapter 2.1 - Virginia Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act|§ 50-73.11:3. Conversion of general partnership to limited partnership

A. A domestic or foreign general partnership may convert to a limited partnership pursuant to this section.B. The terms and conditions of a conversion of a general partnership to a limited partnership shall be approved by the partners in the manner provided in the partnership's partnership agreement for amendments to the partnership agreement or, if no such provision is made in the partnership agreement, by all of the partners.C. After the conversion is approved by the partners, the general partnership shall file a certificate of limited partnership that meets the requirements of § 50-73.11 and includes the following:1. The name of the former general partnership and the identification number issued by the Commission to the general partnership, if any;2. The jurisdiction under whose law the general partnership was formed immediately prior to the filing of the certificate of limited partnership;3. If the former general partnership is registered with the Commission as a registered limited liability partnership, a statement to that effect;4. A statement that the conversion of the general partnership to a limited partnership was approved by the partners in accordance with the provisions of subsection B.2007, c. 631.
VA Code § 50-73.11:4 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 50 - Partnerships|Chapter 2.1 - Virginia Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act|§ 50-73.11:4. Effect of conversion; entity unchanged

A. A general partnership that has been converted to a limited partnership pursuant to § 50-73.11:3, former § 50-73.11:1, or former § 50-73.125 shall be deemed for all purposes the same entity that existed before the conversion.B. When such conversion takes effect:1. The title to real estate and other property owned by the converting general partnership remains vested in the converted limited partnership;2. All obligations of the converting general partnership continue as obligations of the converted limited partnership; and3. An action or proceeding pending against the converting general partnership may be continued as if the conversion had not occurred.C. A general partner who becomes a limited partner as a result of the conversion remains liable as a general partner for an obligation incurred by the general partnership before the conversion takes effect. If the other party to a transaction with the limited partnership reasonably believes when entering the transaction that the limited partner is a general partner, the limited partner is liable for an obligation incurred by the limited partnership within 90 days after the conversion takes effect. The limited partner's liability for all other obligations of the limited partnership incurred after the conversion takes effect is that of a limited partner as provided in this chapter.D. If the converting general partnership is formed under the laws of the Commonwealth and is registered with the Commission as a registered limited liability partnership at the time of conversion, the registration as a registered limited liability partnership shall continue as to the converted limited partnership upon the effective date and time of the conversion.2007, c. 631.