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Section 33-42-30. Name.

SC Code § 33-42-30 (2019) (N/A)
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The name of each limited partnership as set forth in its certificate of limited partnership:

(1) shall contain the words "limited partnership" or the abbreviation "LP", or "L.P.";

(2) may not contain the name of a limited partner unless (i) it is also the name of a general partner or the corporate name of a corporate general partner, or (ii) the business of the limited partnership had been carried on under the name before the admission of that limited partner;

(3) may not be the same as, or deceptively similar to, the name of any corporation or limited partnership organized under the laws of this State or licensed or registered as a foreign corporation or limited partnership in this State; and

(4) which complies with subsection (1) is not in violation of the provision in Section 33-4-101 of the South Carolina Business Corporation Act of 1988 authorizing the use of "limited" or any abbreviation of that word in the name of a corporation.

HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 491, Section 1; 1985 Act No. 11, Sections 3, 4; 1986 Act No. 533, Section 1; 1988 Act No. 444, Section 3.

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