Activities not constituting doing business.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-13.1-1005
in effect7-13.1-1005. Activities not constituting doing business.
(a) Activities of a foreign limited partnership which do not constitute doing business
in this state under this part include:
(1) Maintaining, defending, mediating, arbitrating, or settling an action or proceeding;
(2) Carrying on any activity concerning its internal affairs, including holding meetings
of its partners;
(3) Maintaining accounts in financial institutions;
(4) Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of securities
of the partnership or maintaining trustees or depositories with respect to those securities;
(5) Selling through independent contractors;
(6) Soliciting or obtaining orders by any means if the orders require acceptance outside
this state before they become contracts;
(7) Creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages, or security interests in property;
(8) Securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages or security interests in property
securing the debts and holding, protecting, or maintaining property;
(9) Conducting an isolated transaction that is not in the course of similar transactions;
(10) Owning, without more, property; and
(11) Doing business in interstate commerce.
(b) A person does not do business in this state solely by being a partner of a foreign
limited partnership that does business in this state.
(c) 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
law of this state other than this chapter.
P.L. 2022, ch. 121, § 2, effective January 1, 2023; P.L. 2022, ch. 122, § 2, effective
January 1, 2023.
Source: State of Rhode Island General Assembly (rilegislature.gov)URL: https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE7/7-13.1/7-10/7-13.1-1005.htmFetched: 10/20/2026