[§425-155] Registration of foreign limited liability partnership. Before transacting business in this State, a foreign limited liability partnership shall register with the director. To register, a foreign limited liability partnership shall submit to the director an application for registration as a foreign limited liability partnership, certified and signed by a partner and setting forth:

(1) The name of the foreign limited liability partnership;

(2) The name and residence address of each partner residing in Hawaii;

(3) The nature of the foreign limited liability partnership business;

(4) The jurisdiction in which it was formed and the street address of the office required to be maintained in the state of its organization by the laws of that state or, if not so required, of the principal office of the foreign limited liability partnership;

(5) The date of its formation and the date the partnership commenced business in the State;

(6) The name and address of any qualified agent for service of process on the foreign limited liability partnership whom the foreign limited liability partnership elects to appoint; provided that the agent shall be an individual resident of this State or a domestic corporation;

(7) The fact that the partnership is a foreign limited liability partnership; and

(8) The fact that none of the partners are either a minor or an incompetent person.

Registration is effective at the time of the filing of the application for registration of the foreign limited liability partnership in the office of the director. [L 1996, c 93, pt of §1]