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<section article="gca" article_name="Corporations and Associations" number="9A-1108" title_number="9A" title_name="Maryland Revised Uniform Partnership Act" subtitle_number="11" subtitle_name="Foreign Limited Liability Partnerships">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In addition to any other activities which may not constitute doing business in this State, for the purposes of this subtitle, the following activities of a foreign limited liability partnership do not constitute doing business in this State:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Maintaining, defending, or settling an action, suit, claim, dispute, or administrative or arbitration proceeding;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Holding meetings of its partners or agents or carrying on other activities that concern its internal affairs;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Maintaining bank accounts;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Conducting an isolated transaction not in the course of a number of similar transactions;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Foreclosing mortgages and deeds of trust on property in this State;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>As a result of default under a mortgage or deed of trust, acquiring title to property in this State by foreclosure, deed in lieu of foreclosure, or otherwise;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Holding, protecting, renting, maintaining, and operating property in this State so acquired; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>Selling or transferring title to property in this State so acquired to any person, including the Federal Housing Administration or the Veterans Administration.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>In addition to any other activities which may constitute doing business in this State, for the purposes of this subtitle any foreign limited liability partnership which owns income producing real or tangible personal property in this State, other than property exempted by subsection (a) of this section, shall be considered to be doing business in this State.</text>
  </level>
</section>
