Tenn. Code Ann. § 61-3-204: Signing and filing pursuant to judicial order
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- TN Code
- Title 61
- Chapter 3
(a) If a person required by this chapter to sign a record or deliver a record to the secretary of state for filing under this chapter does not do so, any other person that is aggrieved may petition the appropriate court to order: (1) The person to sign the record; (2) The person to deliver the record to the secretary of state for filing; or (3) The secretary of state to file the record unsigned. (b) For purposes of subsection (a), the appropriate court is: (1) For actions brought under subdivisions (a)(1) and (a)(2), either: (A) The chancery court for the county in which the partnership maintains its principal office; or (B) The chancery court of Davidson County; and (2) For actions brought under subdivision (a)(3), the chancery court of Davidson County. (c) If a petitioner under subsection (a) is not the limited partnership or foreign limited partnership to which the record pertains, the petitioner must make the limited partnership or foreign limited partnership a party to the action. (d) A record filed under subdivision (a)(3) is effective without being signed. Added by 2017 Tenn. Acts, ch. 440,s 1, eff. 1/1/2018.
(a) If a person required by this chapter to sign a record or deliver a record to the secretary of state for filing under this chapter does not do so, any other person that is aggrieved may petition the appropriate court to order: (1) The person to sign the record; (2) The person to deliver the record to the secretary of state for filing; or (3) The secretary of state to file the record unsigned.
(1) The person to sign the record;
(2) The person to deliver the record to the secretary of state for filing; or
(3) The secretary of state to file the record unsigned.
(b) For purposes of subsection (a), the appropriate court is: (1) For actions brought under subdivisions (a)(1) and (a)(2), either: (A) The chancery court for the county in which the partnership maintains its principal office; or (B) The chancery court of Davidson County; and (2) For actions brought under subdivision (a)(3), the chancery court of Davidson County.
(1) For actions brought under subdivisions (a)(1) and (a)(2), either: (A) The chancery court for the county in which the partnership maintains its principal office; or (B) The chancery court of Davidson County; and
(A) The chancery court for the county in which the partnership maintains its principal office; or
(B) The chancery court of Davidson County; and
(2) For actions brought under subdivision (a)(3), the chancery court of Davidson County.
(c) If a petitioner under subsection (a) is not the limited partnership or foreign limited partnership to which the record pertains, the petitioner must make the limited partnership or foreign limited partnership a party to the action.
(d) A record filed under subdivision (a)(3) is effective without being signed.
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