District Of Columbia § 29-601.09 - Partnership agreement; effect on third parties and relationship to records effective on behalf of partnership.
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§ 29-601.09. Partnership agreement; effect on third parties and relationship to records effective on behalf of partnership.
29-601.09A 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.
The obligations of a 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 to effectuate a charging order, an amendment to the partnership agreement made after a person becomes a transferee or is dissociated as a partner:
Is effective with regard to any debt, obligation, or other liability of the partnership or its partners to the person in the person’s capacity as a transferee or person dissociated as a partner; and
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; or
Prejudices the rights under of a person that dissociated as a partner before the amendment was made.
If a record delivered by a partnership to the Mayor for filing becomes effective under this chapter and contains a provision that would be ineffective under or (d)(2) if contained in the partnership agreement, the provision is ineffective in the record.
Subject to subsection (c) of this section, if a record delivered by a partnership to the Mayor for filing becomes effective under this chapter and conflicts with a provision of the partnership agreement:
The agreement prevails as to partners, persons dissociated as partners, and transferees; and
The record prevails as to other persons to the extent they reasonably rely on the record.
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