The Florida Senate

620.1051  Change of registered office or registered agent; change of address.--

(1)  A limited partnership may change its registered office or its registered agent upon filing with the Department of State a statement setting forth:

(a)  The name of the limited partnership;

(b)  The street address of the present registered office;

(c)  If the street address of the registered office is to be changed, the new street address of the registered office;

(d)  The name of its present registered agent;

(e)  If the registered agent is to be changed, the name of the new registered agent; and

(f)  That such change was authorized by the general partner or general partners.

(2)  Any registered agent may resign her or his agency appointment by signing and delivering for filing with the Department of State a statement of resignation and mailing a copy of such statement to the limited partnership at its principal office address shown in its most recent annual report or, if none, at the principal office address filed in its certificate of limited partnership or other most recently filed document. The agency is terminated and the registered office discontinued, if so provided, on the thirty-first day after the date on which the statement was filed.

(3)  A registered agent may change her or his business address, and the address of the registered office of any limited partnership for which she or he is the registered agent by:

(a)  Notifying the limited partnership in writing of the change;

(b)  Signing, either manually or in facsimile, and delivering to the Department of State for filing a statement that complies with subsection (1); and

(c)  Reciting that the limited partnership has been notified of the change.

(4)  Changes of the registered office or registered agent may be made by a change on the limited partnership's annual report form filed with the Department of State.

History.--s. 4, ch. 90-162; s. 117, ch. 97-102.