Title 25 - Partnerships
- 25.04 - General and limited liability partnerships.
- 25.05 - Revised uniform partnership act.
- 25.05.005 - Definitions.
- 25.05.010 - Knowledge and notice.
- 25.05.015 - Effect of partnership agreement -- Nonwaivable provisions.
- 25.05.020 - Supplemental principles of law.
- 25.05.025 - Execution and filing of statements.
- 25.05.030 - Governing law.
- 25.05.035 - Partnership subject to amendment or repeal of chapter.
- 25.05.050 - Partnership as entity.
- 25.05.055 - Formation of partnership.
- 25.05.060 - Partnership property.
- 25.05.065 - When property is partnership property.
- 25.05.100 - Partner agent of partnership.
- 25.05.105 - Transfer of partnership property.
- 25.05.110 - Statement of partnership authority.
- 25.05.115 - Statement of denial.
- 25.05.120 - Partnership liable for partner's actionable conduct.
- 25.05.125 - Partner's liability.
- 25.05.130 - Actions by and against partnership and partners.
- 25.05.135 - Liability of purported partner.
- 25.05.150 - Partner's rights and duties.
- 25.05.155 - Distributions in kind.
- 25.05.160 - Partner's rights and duties with respect to information.
- 25.05.165 - General standards of partner's conduct.
- 25.05.170 - Actions by partnership and partners.
- 25.05.175 - Continuation of partnership beyond definite term or particular undertaking.
- 25.05.200 - Partner not co-owner of partnership property.
- 25.05.205 - Partner's transferable interest in partnership.
- 25.05.210 - Transfer of partner's transferable interest.
- 25.05.215 - Partner's transferable interest subject to charging order.
- 25.05.225 - Events causing partner's dissociation.
- 25.05.230 - Partner's power to dissociate -- Wrongful dissociation.
- 25.05.235 - Effect of partner's dissociation.
- 25.05.250 - Purchase of dissociated partner's interest.
- 25.05.255 - Dissociated partner's power to bind and liability to partnership.
- 25.05.260 - Dissociated partner's liability to other persons.
- 25.05.265 - Statement of dissociation.
- 25.05.270 - Continued use of partnership name.
- 25.05.300 - Events causing dissolution and winding up of partnership business.
- 25.05.305 - Partnership continues after dissolution.
- 25.05.310 - Right to wind up partnership business.
- 25.05.315 - Partner's power to bind partnership after dissolution.
- 25.05.320 - Statement of dissolution.
- 25.05.325 - Partner's liability to other partners after dissolution.
- 25.05.330 - Settlement of accounts and contributions among partners.
- 25.05.350 - Definitions.
- 25.05.355 - Conversion of partnership to limited partnership.
- 25.05.360 - Conversion of limited partnership to partnership.
- 25.05.365 - Effect of conversion -- Entity unchanged.
- 25.05.370 - Merger of partnerships.
- 25.05.375 - Merger -- Plan -- Approval.
- 25.05.380 - Articles of merger -- Filing.
- 25.05.385 - Effect of merger.
- 25.05.390 - Merger -- Foreign and domestic.
- 25.05.395 - Nonexclusive.
- 25.05.420 - Definitions.
- 25.05.425 - Partner -- Dissent -- Payment of fair value.
- 25.05.430 - Dissenters' rights -- Notice -- Timing.
- 25.05.435 - Partner -- Dissent -- Voting restriction.
- 25.05.440 - Partners -- Dissenters' notice -- Requirements.
- 25.05.445 - Partner -- Payment demand -- Entitlement.
- 25.05.450 - Partners' interests -- Transfer restriction.
- 25.05.455 - Payment of fair value -- Requirements for compliance.
- 25.05.460 - Merger -- Not effective within sixty days -- Transfer restrictions.
- 25.05.465 - Dissenter's estimate of fair value -- Notice.
- 25.05.470 - Unsettled demand for payment -- Proceeding -- Parties -- Appraisers.
- 25.05.475 - Unsettled demand for payment -- Costs -- Fees and expenses of counsel.
- 25.05.500 - Formation -- Registration -- Application -- Registered agent -- Fee -- Rules -- Forms.
- 25.05.505 - Name.
- 25.05.510 - Rendering professional services.
- 25.05.530 - Change of registered office or agent for service of process.
- 25.05.533 - Resignation of registered agent for service of process.
- 25.05.536 - Service of process.
- 25.05.550 - Law governing foreign limited liability partnership.
- 25.05.555 - Statement of foreign qualification.
- 25.05.560 - Effect of failure to qualify.
- 25.05.565 - Activities not constituting transacting business.
- 25.05.570 - Action by attorney general.
- 25.05.580 - Registered office and agent for service of process.
- 25.05.583 - Change of registered office or agent for service of process.
- 25.05.586 - Resignation of registered agent for service of process.
- 25.05.589 - Service of process.
- 25.05.901 - Dates of applicability.
- 25.05.902 - Establishment of filing fees and miscellaneous charges -- Secretary of state.
- 25.05.903 - Authority to adopt rules--Secretary of state.
- 25.05.904 - Uniformity of application and construction -- 1998 c 103.
- 25.05.905 - Short title -- 1998 c 103.
- 25.05.906 - Severability clause -- 1998 c 103.
- 25.05.907 - Savings clause -- 1998 c 103.
- 25.10 - Uniform limited partnership act.
- 25.10.006 - Short title.
- 25.10.011 - Definitions.
- 25.10.016 - Knowledge and notice.
- 25.10.021 - Nature, purpose, and duration of entity.
- 25.10.031 - Powers.
- 25.10.040 - Registered office and agent (as amended by 2009 c 202).
- 25.10.041 - Governing law.
- 25.10.051 - Supplemental principles of law -- Rate of interest.
- 25.10.061 - Name.
- 25.10.071 - Reservation of name.
- 25.10.081 - Effect of partnership agreement -- Nonwaivable provisions.
- 25.10.091 - Required information.
- 25.10.101 - Business transactions of partner with partnership.
- 25.10.111 - Dual capacity.
- 25.10.121 - Office and agent for service of process.
- 25.10.131 - Change of designated office or agent for service of process.
- 25.10.141 - Resignation of agent for service of process.
- 25.10.151 - Service of process.
- 25.10.161 - Consent and proxies of partners.
- 25.10.171 - Standards for electronic filing rules.
- 25.10.201 - Formation of limited partnership -- Certificate of limited partnership.
- 25.10.211 - Amendment or restatement of certificate of limited partnership.
- 25.10.221 - Statement of termination.
- 25.10.231 - Signing of records.
- 25.10.241 - Signing and filing pursuant to judicial order.
- 25.10.251 - Delivery to and filing of records by secretary of state -- Effective time and date.
- 25.10.261 - Correcting filed record.
- 25.10.271 - Liability for false information in filed record.
- 25.10.281 - Certificate of existence or authorization.
- 25.10.291 - Annual report for secretary of state.
- 25.10.301 - Becoming limited partner.
- 25.10.311 - No right or power as limited partner to bind limited partnership.
- 25.10.321 - No liability as limited partner for limited partnership obligations.
- 25.10.331 - Right of limited partner and former limited partner to information.
- 25.10.341 - Limited duties of limited partners.
- 25.10.351 - Person erroneously believing self to be limited partner.
- 25.10.371 - Becoming general partner.
- 25.10.381 - General partner agent of limited partnership.
- 25.10.391 - Limited partnership liable for general partner's actionable conduct.
- 25.10.401 - General partner's liability.
- 25.10.411 - Actions by and against partnership and partners.
- 25.10.421 - Management rights of general partner.
- 25.10.431 - Right of general partner and former general partner to information.
- 25.10.441 - General standards of general partner's conduct.
- 25.10.461 - Form of contribution.
- 25.10.466 - Liability for contribution.
- 25.10.471 - Sharing of distributions.
- 25.10.476 - Interim distributions.
- 25.10.481 - No distribution on account of dissociation.
- 25.10.486 - Distribution in kind.
- 25.10.491 - Right to distribution.
- 25.10.496 - Limitations on distribution.
- 25.10.501 - Liability for improper distributions.
- 25.10.511 - Dissociation as limited partner.
- 25.10.516 - Effect of dissociation as limited partner.
- 25.10.521 - Dissociation as general partner.
- 25.10.526 - Person's power to dissociate as general partner -- Wrongful dissociation.
- 25.10.531 - Effect of dissociation as general partner.
- 25.10.536 - Power to bind and liability to limited partnership before dissolution of partnership of person dissociated as general partner.
- 25.10.541 - Liability to other persons of person dissociated as general partner.
- 25.10.546 - Partner's transferable interest.
- 25.10.551 - Transfer of partner's transferable interest.
- 25.10.556 - Rights of creditor of partner or transferee.
- 25.10.561 - Power of estate of deceased partner.
- 25.10.571 - Nonjudicial dissolution.
- 25.10.576 - Judicial dissolution.
- 25.10.581 - Winding up.
- 25.10.586 - Power of general partner and person dissociated as general partner to bind partnership after dissolution.
- 25.10.591 - Liability after dissolution of general partner and person dissociated as general partner to limited partnership, other general partners, and persons dissociated as general partner.
- 25.10.596 - Known claims against dissolved limited partnership.
- 25.10.601 - Other claims against dissolved limited partnership.
- 25.10.606 - Liability of general partner and person dissociated as general partner when claim against limited partnership barred.
- 25.10.611 - Administrative dissolution.
- 25.10.616 - Reinstatement following administrative dissolution.
- 25.10.621 - Disposition of assets -- When contributions required.
- 25.10.641 - Governing law.
- 25.10.646 - Application for certificate of authority.
- 25.10.651 - Activities not constituting transacting business.
- 25.10.656 - Filing of certificate of authority.
- 25.10.661 - Noncomplying name of foreign limited partnership.
- 25.10.666 - Revocation of certificate of authority.
- 25.10.671 - Cancellation of certificate of authority -- Effect of failure to have certificate.
- 25.10.676 - Action by attorney general.
- 25.10.701 - Direct action by partner.
- 25.10.706 - Derivative action.
- 25.10.711 - Proper plaintiff.
- 25.10.716 - Pleading.
- 25.10.721 - Proceeds and expenses.
- 25.10.751 - Definitions.
- 25.10.756 - Conversion.
- 25.10.761 - Action on plan of conversion by converting limited partnership.
- 25.10.766 - Filings required for conversion -- Effective date.
- 25.10.771 - Effect of conversion.
- 25.10.776 - Merger.
- 25.10.781 - Action on plan of merger by constituent limited partnership.
- 25.10.786 - Filings required for merger -- Effective date.
- 25.10.791 - Effect of merger.
- 25.10.796 - Restrictions on approval of conversions and mergers and on relinquishing LLLP status.
- 25.10.801 - Liability of general partner after conversion or merger.
- 25.10.806 - Power of general partners and persons dissociated as general partners to bind organization after conversion or merger.
- 25.10.811 - Article not exclusive.
- 25.10.831 - Definitions.
- 25.10.836 - Partner -- Dissent -- Payment of fair value.
- 25.10.841 - Dissenters' rights -- Notice -- Timing.
- 25.10.846 - Partner--Dissent--Voting restriction.
- 25.10.851 - Partners--Dissenters' notice -- Requirements.
- 25.10.856 - Partner -- Payment demand -- Entitlement.
- 25.10.861 - Partnership interests -- Transfer restrictions.
- 25.10.866 - Payment of fair value -- Requirements for compliance.
- 25.10.871 - Merger -- Not effective within sixty days -- Transfer restrictions.
- 25.10.876 - Dissenter's estimate of fair value -- Notice.
- 25.10.881 - Unsettled demand for payment--Proceeding -- Parties -- Appraisers.
- 25.10.886 - Unsettled demand for payment -- Costs, fees, and expenses of counsel.
- 25.10.901 - Uniformity of application and construction.
- 25.10.903 - Effective date -- 2009 c 188.
- 25.10.906 - Relation to electronic signatures in global and national commerce act.
- 25.10.911 - Application to existing relationships.
- 25.10.916 - Establishment of filing fees and miscellaneous charges.
- 25.10.921 - Authority to adopt rules.
- 25.10.926 - Savings clause.
- 25.12 - Limited partnerships existing prior to June 6, 1945.
- 25.12.005 - Application of chapter.
- 25.12.010 - Limited partnership may be formed.
- 25.12.020 - Of whom composed -- Liability of members.
- 25.12.030 - Certificate to be made, acknowledged and filed.
- 25.12.040 - Certificate of partnership -- Publication.
- 25.12.050 - Renewal of limited partnership.
- 25.12.060 - Name of firm -- When special partner liable as general partner.
- 25.12.070 - Withdrawal of stock and profits -- Effect.
- 25.12.080 - Suits by and against limited partnership -- Parties.
- 25.12.090 - Dissolution, how accomplished.
- 25.12.100 - Liabilities and rights of members of firm.
- 25.15 - Limited liability companies.
- 25.15.005 - Definitions.
- 25.15.007 - Standards for electronic filing -- Rules.
- 25.15.010 - Name set forth in certificate of formation.
- 25.15.015 - Reserved name -- Registered name.
- 25.15.020 - Registered office -- Registered agent.
- 25.15.025 - Service of process on domestic limited liability companies.
- 25.15.030 - Nature of business permitted -- Powers.
- 25.15.035 - Business transactions of member or manager with the limited liability company.
- 25.15.040 - Limitation of liability and indemnification.
- 25.15.045 - Professional limited liability companies.
- 25.15.050 - Member agreements.
- 25.15.055 - Membership residency.
- 25.15.060 - Piercing the veil.
- 25.15.070 - Certificate of formation.
- 25.15.075 - Amendment to certificate of formation.
- 25.15.085 - Execution.
- 25.15.090 - Execution, amendment, or cancellation by judicial order.
- 25.15.095 - Filing.
- 25.15.100 - Restated certificate.
- 25.15.105 - Initial and annual reports.
- 25.15.115 - Admission of members.
- 25.15.120 - Voting and classes of membership.
- 25.15.125 - Liability of members and managers to third parties.
- 25.15.130 - Events of dissociation.
- 25.15.135 - Records and information.
- 25.15.140 - Remedies for breach of limited liability company agreement by member.
- 25.15.150 - Management.
- 25.15.155 - Liability of managers and members.
- 25.15.160 - Manager -- Members' rights and duties.
- 25.15.165 - Voting and classes of managers.
- 25.15.170 - Remedies for breach of limited liability company agreement by manager.
- 25.15.175 - Reliance on reports and information by member or manager.
- 25.15.180 - Resignation of manager.
- 25.15.185 - Loss of sole remaining manager.
- 25.15.190 - Form of contribution.
- 25.15.195 - Liability for contribution.
- 25.15.200 - Allocation of profits and losses.
- 25.15.205 - Allocation of distributions.
- 25.15.215 - Interim distributions.
- 25.15.220 - Distribution on event of dissociation.
- 25.15.225 - Distribution in-kind.
- 25.15.230 - Right to distribution.
- 25.15.235 - Limitations on distribution.
- 25.15.245 - Nature of limited liability company interest -- Certificate of interest.
- 25.15.250 - Assignment of limited liability company interest.
- 25.15.255 - Rights of judgment creditor.
- 25.15.260 - Right of assignee to become member.
- 25.15.270 - Dissolution.
- 25.15.273 - After dissolution under RCW 25.15.270.
- 25.15.275 - Judicial dissolution.
- 25.15.280 - Administrative dissolution -- Commencement of proceeding.
- 25.15.285 - Administrative dissolution -- Notice -- Opportunity to correct deficiencies.
- 25.15.290 - Administrative dissolution -- Reinstatement -- Application -- When effective.
- 25.15.293 - Dissolution under RCW 25.15.270 -- Revocation -- Approval required -- When effective.
- 25.15.295 - Winding up.
- 25.15.298 - Disposing of known claims -- Definition.
- 25.15.300 - Distribution of assets.
- 25.15.303 - Remedies available after dissolution.
- 25.15.310 - Law governing.
- 25.15.315 - Registration required -- Application.
- 25.15.320 - Issuance of registration.
- 25.15.325 - Name -- Registered office -- Registered agent.
- 25.15.330 - Amendments to application.
- 25.15.335 - Cancellation of registration.
- 25.15.340 - Doing business without registration.
- 25.15.345 - Foreign limited liability companies doing business without having qualified -- Injunctions.
- 25.15.350 - Transactions not constituting transacting business.
- 25.15.355 - Service of process on registered foreign limited liability companies.
- 25.15.360 - Service of process on unregistered foreign limited liability companies.
- 25.15.365 - Revocation of registration -- Requirements for commencement.
- 25.15.366 - Revocation of registration -- Procedure -- Notice -- Correction of grounds -- Certificate of revocation -- Authority of agent.
- 25.15.370 - Right to bring action.
- 25.15.375 - Proper plaintiff.
- 25.15.380 - Complaint.
- 25.15.385 - Expenses.
- 25.15.395 - Merger -- Plan -- Effective date.
- 25.15.400 - Merger -- Plan -- Approval.
- 25.15.405 - Articles of merger -- Filing.
- 25.15.410 - Effect of merger.
- 25.15.415 - Merger -- Foreign and domestic.
- 25.15.425 - Definitions.
- 25.15.430 - Member -- Dissent -- Payment of fair value.
- 25.15.435 - Dissenters' rights -- Notice -- Timing.
- 25.15.440 - Member -- Dissent -- Voting restriction.
- 25.15.445 - Members -- Dissenters' notice -- Requirements.
- 25.15.450 - Member -- Payment demand -- Entitlement.
- 25.15.455 - Member's interests -- Transfer restriction.
- 25.15.460 - Payment of fair value -- Requirements for compliance.
- 25.15.465 - Merger -- Not effective within sixty days -- Transfer restrictions.
- 25.15.470 - Dissenter's estimate of fair value -- Notice.
- 25.15.475 - Unsettled demand for payment -- Proceeding -- Parties -- Appraisers.
- 25.15.480 - Unsettled demand for payment -- Costs -- Fees and expenses of counsel.
- 25.15.800 - Construction and application of chapter and limited liability company agreement.
- 25.15.805 - Establishment of filing fees and miscellaneous charges.
- 25.15.810 - Authority to adopt rules.
- 25.15.900 - Effective date -- 1994 c 211.
- 25.15.901 - Short title.
- 25.15.902 - Severability -- 1994 c 211.
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