§ 35-12-1521

35-12-1521. Power of general partners and persons dissociated as general partners to bind organization after conversion or merger. (1) An act of a person that immediately before a conversion or merger became effective was a general partner in a converting limited partnership or constituent limited partnership binds the converted organization or surviving organization after the conversion or merger becomes effective if: (a) before the conversion or merger became effective, the act would have bound the converting limited partnership or constituent limited partnership under 35-12-806; and (b) at the time the third party enters into the transaction, the third party: (i) does not have notice of the conversion or merger; and (ii) reasonably believes that the converted or surviving business is the converting limited partnership or constituent limited partnership and that the person is a general partner in the converting limited partnership or constituent limited partnership. (2) An act of a person that before a conversion or merger became effective was dissociated as a general partner from a converting limited partnership or constituent limited partnership binds the converted

n act of a person that before a conversion or merger became effective was dissociated as a general partner from a converting limited partnership or constituent limited partnership binds the converted organization or surviving organization after the conversion or merger becomes effective if: (a) before the conversion or merger became effective, the act would have bound the converting limited partnership or constituent limited partnership under 35-12-806 if the person had been a general partner; and (b) at the time the third party enters into the transaction, less than 2 years have passed since the person dissociated as a general partner and the third party: (i) does not have notice of the dissociation; (ii) does not have notice of the conversion or merger; and (iii) reasonably believes that the converted organization or surviving organization is the converting limited partnership or constituent limited partnership and that the person is a general partner in the converting limited partnership or constituent limited partnership. (3) If a person having knowledge of the conversion or merger causes a converted organization or surviving organization to incur an obligation under

ted partnership or constituent limited partnership. (3) If a person having knowledge of the conversion or merger causes a converted organization or surviving organization to incur an obligation under subsection (1) or (2), the person is liable: (a) to the converted organization or surviving organization for any damage caused to the organization arising from the obligation; and (b) if another person is liable for the obligation, to that other person for any damage caused to that other person arising from the liability. History: En. Sec. 93, Ch. 216, L. 2011.