Maine Code § 31-1413

Activities not constituting transacting business
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1. Activities not constituting transacting business. Activities of a foreign limited partnership
that do not constitute transacting business in this State within the meaning of this subchapter include:
A. Maintaining, defending and settling an action or proceeding; [PL 2005, c. 543, Pt. C, §2
(NEW).]
B. Holding meetings of its partners or carrying on any other activity concerning its internal affairs;
[PL 2005, c. 543, Pt. C, §2 (NEW).]
C. Maintaining accounts in financial institutions; [PL 2005, c. 543, Pt. C, §2 (NEW).]
D. Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange and registration of the foreign limited
partnership's own securities or maintaining trustees or depositories with respect to those securities;
[PL 2005, c. 543, Pt. C, §2 (NEW).]
E. Selling through independent contractors; [PL 2005, c. 543, Pt. C, §2 (NEW).]
F. Soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by mail or electronic means or through employees or
agents or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside this State before they become
contracts; [PL 2005, c. 543, Pt. C, §2 (NEW).]
G. Creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages or security interests in real or personal property;
[PL 2005, c. 543, Pt. C, §2 (NEW).]

H. Securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages or other security interests in property
securing the debts, and holding, protecting and maintaining property so acquired; [PL 2005, c.
543, Pt. C, §2 (NEW).]
I. Conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within 30 days and is not one in the course
of similar transactions of a like manner; and [PL 2005, c. 543, Pt. C, §2 (NEW).]
J. Transacting business in interstate commerce. [PL 2005, c. 543, Pt. C, §2 (NEW).]
[PL 2005, c. 543, Pt. C, §2 (NEW).]
2. Ownership of property. For purposes of this subchapter, the ownership in this State of income-
producing real property or tangible personal property, other than property excluded under subsection
1, constitutes transacting business in this State.
[PL 2005, c. 543, Pt. C, §2 (NEW).]
3. Service of process, taxation or regulation under other law. This section does not apply in
determining the contacts or activities that may subject a foreign limited partnership to service of
process, taxation or regulation under any other law of this State.
[PL 2005, c. 543, Pt. C, §2 (NEW).]

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