3.__Errors; later changes.__The status of a partnership as a limited liability partnership and the liability of its partners is not affected by errors or later changes in the information required to be contained in the certificate under subsection 1.

Sec. B-6. 31 MRSA §858, as enacted by PL 1995, c. 633, Pt. B, §1, is repealed.

Sec. B-7. 31 MRSA §858-A is enacted to read:

§858-A.__Effect of failure to qualify

1.__No action or proceeding until granted authority; fees paid.__A foreign limited liability partnership transacting business in this State may not maintain an action or proceeding in this State until it is granted authority to do business in this State and pays to the State all fees and penalties for the years or parts of years during which it did business in this State without having been granted authority to do business.

2.__Validity of contract or act; defend action or proceeding.__ The failure of a foreign limited liability partnership to obtain authority to do business in this State in accordance with this chapter does not impair the validity of a contract or act of the foreign limited liability partnership or preclude it from defending an action or proceeding in this State.

3.__Limitation on personal liability.__A limitation on personal liability of a partner is not waived solely by transacting business in this State without being granted authority to do business in this State.

4.__Agent for service of process.__If a foreign limited liability partnership transacts business in this State without being granted the authority to do business in this State, the Secretary of State is its agent for service of process with respect to a right of action arising out of the transaction of business in this State.

Sec. B-8. 31 MRSA §859-A, first ¶, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 631, §71, is amended to read:

Notwithstanding Title 4, chapter 5 and Title 5, chapter 375, the Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under section 859-B to revoke the status authority of a partnership as a foreign limited liability partnership authorized to do business in this State if: