Connecticut § 34-412 - (Formerly Sec. 34-81y). Domestic and foreign limited liability partnerships: Interrogatories by Secretary of the State.

§ 34-412. (Formerly Sec. 34-81y). Domestic and foreign limited liability partnerships: Interrogatories by Secretary of the State.

Sec. 34-412. (Formerly Sec. 34-81y). Domestic and foreign limited liability partnerships: Interrogatories by Secretary of the State. (a) The Secretary of the State may propound to any registered limited liability partnership or foreign registered limited liability partnership, subject to the provisions of sections 34-300 to 34-434, inclusive, and to any partner or employee thereof, such interrogatories as may be reasonably necessary and proper to enable said secretary to ascertain whether such registered limited liability partnership or foreign registered limited liability partnership has complied with the provisions of said sections applicable to such partnership. Such interrogatories shall be answered within thirty days after the mailing thereof, or within such additional time as shall be fixed by said secretary, and the answers thereto shall be full and complete and shall be made in writing and under oath.

(b) Each registered limited liability partnership or foreign registered limited liability partnership and each partner or employee thereof, failing or refusing within the time prescribed by this section to answer truthfully and fully interrogatories duly propounded to such partnership or such partner or employee by the Secretary of the State, as provided in subsection (a) of this section, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars.

(c) Interrogatories propounded by the Secretary of the State and the answers thereto shall not be open to public inspection, nor shall said secretary disclose any facts or information obtained therefrom except insofar as the official duties of said secretary may require the same to be made public, or if such interrogatories or the answers thereto are required for evidence in any criminal proceedings or in any other action by this state.

(P.A. 94-218, S. 26, 28; P.A. 96-77, S. 9, 17.)

History: P.A. 94-218 effective January 1, 1996; P.A. 96-77 amended Subsec. (a) to replace reference to “sections 34-40, 34-44, 34-53, 34-56, 34-72, 34-74, 34-78 and 34-81a to 34-81z, inclusive,” with “sections 34-300 to 34-434, inclusive,” effective July 1, 1997; Sec. 34-81y transferred to Sec. 34-412 in 1997.