The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXXVI
BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

Chapter 620
PARTNERSHIP LAWS

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F.S. 620.1117

620.1117 Serving process, giving notice, or making a demand on a limited partnership or a foreign limited partnership.—

(1) Service of process on a limited partnership or foreign limited partnership must be made in accordance with s. 48.061 and chapter 48 or chapter 49.

(2) Any notice or demand on a limited partnership or foreign limited partnership under this chapter may be given or made to any general partner of the limited partnership or foreign limited partnership, to the registered agent of the limited partnership or foreign limited partnership at the registered office in this state, or to any other address in this state which is in fact the principal office of the limited partnership or foreign limited partnership in this state.

(3) This section does not affect the right to serve process, give notice, or make a demand in any other manner provided by law.

History.—s. 17, ch. 2005-267; s. 30, ch. 2022-190.

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Amendments to 620.1117

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 620.1117

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 620.1117.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

TWIN OAKS VILLAS, LTD. v. JOEL D. SMITH, L. L. C., 79 So. 3d 67 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2011)

. . . Section 620.1117(2) authorized service on the Secretary of State if the “registered agent cannot with . . . We reject the subcontractor’s claim that section 620.1117 alone applies in this case rather than section . . . 48.061, and that section 620.1117(2) requires only the exercise of reasonable diligence to serve the . . . The subcontractor contends that section 620.1117 is a specific provision addressing the procedure for . . . With regard to the relationship between section 620.1117 and 48.061, “related statutory provisions must . . .