Current through codified legislation effective September 18, 2024
Section 29-701.09 - Partnership agreement; effect on third parties and relationship to records effective on behalf of limited partnership(a) A partnership agreement may specify that its amendment requires the approval of a person that is not a party to the agreement or the satisfaction of a condition. An amendment is ineffective if its adoption does not include the required approval or satisfy the specified condition.(b) The obligations of a limited partnership and its partners to a person in the person's capacity as a transferee or person dissociated as a partner are governed by the partnership agreement. Subject only to a court order issued under § 29-707.03(b)(2) to effectuate a charging order, an amendment to the partnership agreement made after a person becomes a transferee or is dissociated as a partner: (1) Is effective with regard to any debt, obligation, or other liability of the limited partnership or its partners to the person in the person's capacity as a transferee or person dissociated as a partner; and(2) Is not effective to the extent the amendment imposes a new debt, obligation, or other liability on the transferee or person dissociated as a partner.(c) If a record delivered by a limited partnership to the Mayor for filing becomes effective and contains a provision that would be ineffective under § 29-701.07(b) or (c)(2) if contained in the partnership agreement, the provision is ineffective in the record.(d) Subject to subsection (c) of this section, if a record delivered by a limited partnership to the Mayor for filing becomes effective and conflicts with a provision of the partnership agreement:(1) The agreement prevails as to partners, persons dissociated as partners, and transferees; and(2) The record prevails as to other persons to the extent they reasonably rely on the record.Mar. 5, 2013, D.C. Law 19-210, § 2(g)(2)(G), 59 DCR 13171.Section 2(g)(2)(F) of D.C. Law 19-210 redesignated former § 20-701.09 as § 29-701.11.
Application of Law 19-210: Section 7 of D.C. Law 19-210 provided that the act shall apply as of January 1, 2012.