Utah § 16-18-102 - Knowledge -- Notice. (Effective 10/1/2026)

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§ 16-18-102. Knowledge -- Notice. (Effective 10/1/2026)

Effective 10/1/2026
16-18-102.  Knowledge -- Notice.
(1)A person knows a fact if the person:
(a)has actual knowledge of it; or
(b)is deemed to know it under Subsection (4)(a) or law other than this chapter.
(2)A person has notice of a fact if the person:
(a)has reason to know the fact from all the facts known to the person at the time in question; or
(b)is deemed to have notice of the fact under Subsection (4)(b).
(3)Subject to Section 16-1a-211, a person notifies another person of a fact by taking steps reasonably required to inform the other person in ordinary course, whether or not those steps cause the other person to know the fact.
(4)A person not a partner is deemed:
(a)to know of a limitation on authority to transfer real property as provided in Subsection 16-18-303(7); and
(b)to have notice of:
(i)a partner's dissociation 90 days after a statement of dissociation under Section 16-18-804 becomes effective; and
(ii)a partnership's:
(A)dissolution 90 days after a statement of dissolution under Subsection 16-18-902(2)(b)(i) becomes effective;
(B)termination 90 days after a statement of termination under Subsection 16-18-902(2)(b)(vi) becomes effective;
(C)participation in a merger, interest exchange, conversion, or domestication 90 days after a statement of merger, interest exchange, conversion, or domestication under Chapter 1a, Part 7, Merger, Chapter 1a, Part 8, Interest Exchange, Chapter 1a, Part 9, Conversion, or Chapter 1a, Part 10, Domestication, becomes effective; and
(D)abandonment of a merger, interest exchange, conversion, or domestication 90 days after a statement of abandonment of merger, interest exchange, conversion, or domestication under Chapter 1a, Part 7, Merger, Chapter 1a, Part 8, Interest Exchange, Chapter 1a, Part 9, Conversion, or Chapter 1a, Part 10, Domestication, becomes effective.
(5)A partner's knowledge or notice of a fact relating to the partnership is effective immediately as knowledge of or notice to the partnership, except in the case of a fraud on the partnership committed by or with the consent of that partner.


Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 93, 2026 General Session

Source: official Utah text · Last verified 2026-08-27

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