Registered Agent

(1) Every Registered Limited Liability Partnership and Professional Limited Liability Partnership may, and every Foreign Limited Liability Partnership shall, appoint a resident agent as its true and lawful attorney upon whom all lawful process may be served. Such resident agent shall be an individual who has a residence and a business address in the Commonwealth, a domestic corporation or a foreign corporation registered to do business in the Commonwealth under M.G.L. c. 181 and which has an office in the Commonwealth. (2) The appointment of the resident agent shall become effective upon filing with the Division a registration, an annual report or certificate of appointment signed by at least one partner and which contains the name and business address of the resident agent. (3) An appointment of resident agent may be revoked by filing a certificate of revocation with the Division. The certificate of revocation shall be signed by at least one partner, shall state the name and business address of the resident agent and the effective date of revocation. If the limited liability partnership is a foreign registered limited liability partnership the certificate shall include the name and business address of its new resident agent. (4) A resident agent may resign by filing with the Division a certificate of resignation signed by the resident agent. The certificate shall include: (a) the effective date of resignation which shall not be less than 30 days after the effective date of filing such certificate; (b) a statement that a copy of the certificate has been mailed postage prepaid to the registered limited liability partnership to the last known address on file with the Division and if different, to the address most recently furnished to the agent by the limited liability partnership as the address to which copies of all process served upon him as agent are to be forwarded.