LD 1609
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LR 1469
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1.__Conversion.__A partnership or a limited liability
partnership may be converted to a limited partnership, limited
liability limited partnership, corporation or limited liability
company pursuant to this section.

 
2.__Terms and conditions.__The terms and conditions of a
conversion of a partnership to a limited partnership, limited
liability limited partnership, corporation or limited liability
company must be approved by all of the partners or as otherwise
provided in the partnership agreement.

 
3.__Organizational documents filed.__After the conversion is
approved by the partners, articles of conversion must be executed
on behalf of the converting entity by a partner or other duly
authorized representative. The articles must:

 
A.__Set forth the name of the entity immediately before the
filing of the articles of conversion and the name to which
the name of the entity is to be changed, which must be a
name that satisfies the organic law of the surviving entity;

 
B.__State the type of entity that the surviving entity will
be;

 
C.__Set forth a statement that the plan of entity conversion
was duly approved by the partners in the manner required by
this Act and the partnership agreement; and

 
D.__If the surviving entity is a filing entity, either
contain all the provisions required to be set forth in its
public organic document with any other desired provisions

 
that are permitted or have attached a public organic
document.

 
4.__Effective date of conversion.__The conversion takes effect
when the articles of conversion are filed or at any later date
specified in the articles of conversion or as provided by the
organic laws of the surviving entity.

 
5.__Liability.__A general partner who becomes a limited
partner, general partner in a limited liability limited
partnership, shareholder or member as a result of the conversion
remains liable as a general partner of a partnership for an
obligation incurred by the partnership before the conversion
takes effect. If the other party to a transaction with a limited
partnership, limited liability limited partnership, corporation
or limited liability company reasonably believes when entering
the transaction that the limited partner, general partner,
shareholder or member is a general partner in a partnership or a
general partner in a limited partnership, the limited partner,


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