{"data":{"id":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-61-2-907","jurisdiction":"us-tn","citation":"Tenn. Code Ann. § 61-2-907","heading":"Doing business without registration - Penalty","body":"(a) A foreign limited partnership doing business in this state may not maintain any action, suit or proceeding in this state until it has registered in this state and has paid to this state all fees for the years or parts thereof during which it did business in this state without having registered. (b) The failure of a foreign limited partnership to register in this state does not impair: (1) The validity of any contract or act of the foreign limited partnership; (2) The right of any other party to the contract to maintain any action, suit or proceeding on the contract; or (3) The foreign limited partnership from defending any action, suit or proceeding in any court of this state. (c) A limited partner of a foreign limited partnership is not liable as a general partner of the foreign limited partnership solely by reason of the limited partnership having done business in this state without registration. (d) Any foreign limited partnership doing business in this state without first having registered shall be fined and shall pay to the secretary of state two hundred dollars ($200) for each year or part thereof during which the foreign limited partnership failed to register in this state. Acts 1988, ch. 922, § 1.\n(a) A foreign limited partnership doing business in this state may not maintain any action, suit or proceeding in this state until it has registered in this state and has paid to this state all fees for the years or parts thereof during which it did business in this state without having registered.\n(b) The failure of a foreign limited partnership to register in this state does not impair: (1) The validity of any contract or act of the foreign limited partnership; (2) The right of any other party to the contract to maintain any action, suit or proceeding on the contract; or (3) The foreign limited partnership from defending any action, suit or proceeding in any court of this state.\n(1) The validity of any contract or act of the foreign limited partnership;\n(2) The right of any other party to the contract to maintain any action, suit or proceeding on the contract; or\n(3) The foreign limited partnership from defending any action, suit or proceeding in any court of this state.\n(c) A limited partner of a foreign limited partnership is not liable as a general partner of the foreign limited partnership solely by reason of the limited partnership having done business in this state without registration.\n(d) Any foreign limited partnership doing business in this state without first having registered shall be fined and shall pay to the secretary of state two hundred dollars ($200) for each year or part thereof during which the foreign limited partnership failed to register in this state.","path":["TN Code","Title 61","Chapter 2"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_tn_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:51:56Z","sha256":"4bb25e1819e48e3738d795670f92eccc068db45a0768ac6cf77f3dd23ee4a797","source_id":"us-tn","stale":false,"prev":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-61-2-906","next":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-61-2-908","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-tn","title":"Tennessee Release 76 supplement","text":"Tennessee electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 76 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.tn.tca"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}