Instructions for Completing Amendment to Certificate
Of Domestic Limited Partnership
Form LP-02
If additional space is necessary, attach extra sheets noting on each the appropriate section to which the information refers.
A. Type or print the name and address of the person or firm to receive the acknowledgment of filing. Send an
original executed document and one copy to the Secretary of State, Corporations Division, P.O. Box 29622,
Raleigh, North Carolina 27626-0622. Enclose a $25.00 filing fee.
B. Enter the name exactly as it appears in the previously filed certificate of limited partnership. In the event the
limited partnership changed its name, enter the new name exactly as it appears in the certificate of amendment
previously filed with the Secretary of State. [N.C. Gen. Statute §59-202(a)(1)].
C. Enter the date the Secretary of State filed the previously submitted certificate of limited partnership.
D. Enter the file number which the Secretary of State assigned to the previously filed certificate of limited
partnership.
E. Complete the appropriate sub-items and only those which apply to items that need to be changed. [N.C. Gen.
Statute §59-202(b)].
NOTE: If sub-item 1 is completed, please be advised that any new name MUST be cleared by the Secretary
of State. This is for the purpose of determining that the new name is sufficiently unique to permit separate
indexing in the limited partnership records in the office of the Secretary of State.
All names must include the words “limited partnership” as part of the name. [N.C. Gen. Statute §59-
801(3)].
If sub-item 7 is completed, also complete item 8 if the limited partnership is to be continued.
[N.C. Gen. Statute §59-801(3)].
Complete sub-item 10 only if there is any other information presently on the certificate of
domestic limited partnership that is to be amended by the filing of this certificate.
F. This certificate of amendment must be signed by at least one general partner as so identified in the certificate of
limited partnership and by each other partner designated above as a new general partner. [N.C. Gen. Statute
§59-204(a)(2)].
(Revised January 2000)
Form LP-02
CORPORATIONS DIVISION
P. O. BOX 29622
RALEIGH, NC 27626-0622