Title 17 · WY

17-14-1104.

Citation: Wyo. Stat. § 17-14-1104

Section: 17-14-1104

17-14-1104.

17-14-203. Name.

(a) The name of each limited partnership as set forth in its certificate of limited partnership:

(i) Shall contain without abbreviation the words "limited partnership";

(ii) Shall not contain the name of a limited partner unless:

(A) It is also the name of a general partner or the corporate name of a corporate general partner; or

(B) The business of the limited partnership had been carried on under that name before the admission of that limited partner.

(iii) Repealed by Laws 1995, ch. 45, § 2.

(iv) Shall not be the same as, or deceptively similar to, any trademark or service mark registered in this state and shall be distinguishable upon the records of the secretary of state from other business names as provided in W.S. 17-16-401. 17-14-204. Reservation of name.

(a) The exclusive right to the use of a name may be reserved by:

(i) Any person intending to organize a limited partnership under this act and to adopt that name;

(ii) Any domestic limited partnership or any foreign limited partnership registered in this state which, in either case, intends to adopt that name;

(iii) Any foreign limited partnership intending to register in this state and adopt that name; and

(iv) Any person intending to organize a foreign limited partnership and intending to have it registered in this state and adopt that name.

(b) The reservation shall be made by filing with the secretary of state an application, executed by the applicant, to reserve a specified name. If the secretary of state finds that the name is available for use by a domestic or foreign limited partnership, he shall reserve the name for the exclusive use of the applicant for a period of one hundred twenty (120) days. The reservation of a name is not renewable. The right to the exclusive use of a reserved name may be transferred to any other person by filing in the office of the secretary of state a notice of the transfer, executed by the applicant for whom the name was reserved and specifying the name and address of the transferee.

17-14-205. Specified office and agent.

(a) Each limited partnership shall continuously maintain in this state:

(i) An office, which may but need not be a place of its business in this state, at which shall be kept the records required by W.S. 17-14-206 to be maintained; and

(ii) A registered agent for service of process on the limited partnership as provided in W.S. 17-28-101 through