(a) When a registered foreign limited partnership has merged into a foreign entity that is not registered to do business in this state or has converted to a foreign entity required to register with the Secretary of State to do business in this state, the foreign entity shall deliver to the Secretary of State for filing an application for transfer of registration. The application must state:

(1) The name of the registered foreign limited partnership before the merger;

(2) That before the merger the registration pertained to a foreign limited partnership;

(3) The name of the applicant foreign entity into which the foreign limited partnership has merged or to which it has been converted and, if the name does not comply with Section 79-14-114, an alternate name adopted pursuant to Section 79-14-1006(a);

(4) The type of entity of the applicant foreign entity and its jurisdiction of formation;

(5) The street and mailing addresses of the principal office of the applicant foreign entity and, if the law of the entity’s jurisdiction of formation requires the entity to maintain an office in that jurisdiction, the street and mailing addresses of that office; and

(6) The name and street and mailing addresses of the applicant foreign entity’s registered agent in this state.

(b) When an application for transfer of registration takes effect, the registration of the foreign limited partnership to do business in this state is transferred without interruption to the foreign entity into which the partnership has merged or to which it has been converted.