Title 10A

(a) If a member of a converting or constituent limited liability company will have personal liability with respect to a converted or surviving organization, approval and amendment of a plan of conversion or plan of merger are ineffective without that member’s consent to the plan.…

This article is not exclusive. This article does not preclude an entity from being converted or merged under law other than this chapter. (Act 2014-144, p. 265, §1.)

(a) If a limited liability company complies with Section 10A-5A-11.02, a limited liability company agreement may establish or provide for the establishment of one or more designated series of assets that: (1) has separate rights, powers, or duties with respect to specified proper…

(a) Subject to subsection (b): (1) the debts, liabilities, obligations, and expenses incurred, contracted for, or otherwise existing with respect to a series shall be enforceable against the assets of that series only, and shall not be enforceable against the assets of the limite…

(a) Assets of a series may be held directly or indirectly, including being held in the name of the series or in the name of the limited liability company. (b) If the records of a series are maintained in a manner so that the assets of the series can be reasonably identified by sp…

The statement of limitation on liabilities of a series required by Section 10A-5A-11.02(b)(3) is sufficient regardless of whether: (a) the limited liability company has established any series under this chapter when the statement of limitations is contained in the certificate of …

(a) A person has the power to dissociate as a member associated with a series. (b) A person’s dissociation from a series is wrongful only if: (1) it is in breach of an express provision of the limited liability company agreement; or (2) the person is expelled as a member associat…

A person is dissociated as a member associated with a series when any of the following occurs: (a) the series has notice of the person’s express will to dissociate from the series, except if the person specifies a dissociation date later than the date the series had notice, then …

(a) A person who has dissociated as a member associated with a series shall have no right to participate in the direction and oversight of the activities and affairs of that series and is entitled only to receive the distributions to which that member would have been entitled if …

A series may be dissolved and its activities and affairs may be wound up without causing the dissolution of the limited liability company. The dissolution and winding up of a series does not abate, suspend, or otherwise affect the limitation on liabilities of the series provided …

A series is dissolved and its activities and affairs shall be wound up upon the first to occur of the following: (a) the dissolution of the limited liability company under Section 10A-5A-7.01; (b) an event or circumstance that the limited liability company agreement states causes…

(a) A dissolved series continues its existence as a series but may not carry on any activities and affairs except as is appropriate to wind up and liquidate its activities and affairs, including: (1) collecting the assets of the series; (2) disposing of the properties of the seri…

(a) The person or persons designated in the limited liability company agreement to wind up the activities and affairs of the dissolved series shall wind up the activities and affairs of the dissolved series in accordance with Section 10A-5A-11.10. If no person or persons are desi…

(a) A dissolved series may dispose of any known claims against it by following the procedures described in subsection (b), at any time after the effective date of the dissolution of the series. (b) A dissolved series may give notice of the dissolution in a writing to the holder o…

(a) A dissolved series may publish notice of its dissolution and request that persons with claims against the dissolved series present them in accordance with the notice. (b) The notice authorized by subsection (a) must: (1) be published at least one time in a newspaper of genera…

Upon the winding up of a series, the assets of the series shall be applied as follows: (a) Payment, or adequate provision for payment, shall be made to creditors of the series, including, to the extent permitted by law, members who are associated with the series and who are also …

A series that has been dissolved may be reinstated upon compliance with the following conditions: (a) the consent shall have been obtained from the members or other persons associated with the series entitled to consent at the time that is: (1) required for reinstatement of the s…

(a) Subject to subsection (b), upon reinstatement, a series shall be deemed for all purposes to have continued its activities and affairs as if dissolution had never occurred; each right inuring to, and each debt, obligation, and liability incurred by, the series after the dissol…

(a) Before January 1, 2017, this chapter governs only: (1) a limited liability company formed on or after January 1, 2015; and (2) except as otherwise provided in subsection (c), a limited liability company formed before January 1, 2015, which elects, in the manner provided in th…

This chapter modifies, limits, and supersedes the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001 et seq., but does not modify, limit, or supersede Section 101(c) of that act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001(c), or authorize electronic delivery of…

A limited liability company formed and existing under this chapter may conduct its activities and affairs, carry on its operations, and have and exercise the powers granted by this chapter in any state, foreign country, or other jurisdiction. (Act 2014-144, p. 265, §1.)

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the repeal of a statute by this chapter does not affect: (1) the operation of the statute or any action taken under it before its repeal; (2) any ratification, right, remedy, privilege, obligation, or liability acquired, accrued, or incur…

All provisions of this chapter may be altered from time to time or repealed and all rights of members and agents are subject to this reservation. Unless expressly stated to the contrary in this chapter, all amendments of this chapter shall apply to limited liability companies and…

This chapter and the provisions of Chapter 1 to the extent applicable to partnerships, shall be known and may be cited as the Alabama Partnership Law. (Act 2018-125, §7.)

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms mean: (1) BUSINESS includes every trade, occupation, and profession for profit. (2) DISQUALIFIED PERSON means any person who is not a qualified person. (3) DISTRIBUTION except as otherwise provide…

(a) A person knows a fact when the person: (1) has actual knowledge of it; or (2) is deemed to know it under law other than this chapter. (b) A person has notice of a fact when the person: (1) knows of it; (2) receives notice of it; (3) has reason to know the fact from all of the…

(a) A partnership is a separate legal entity. A partnership’s status for tax purposes shall not affect its status as a separate legal entity formed under this chapter. A partnership is the same entity regardless of whether the partnership has a statement of limited liability part…

(a) A partnership shall possess and may exercise all the powers and privileges granted and enumerated by Chapter 1 or by any other law or by its partnership agreement, together with any powers incidental thereto, including those powers and privileges necessary or convenient to th…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (b), (c), and (d) of this section, the law of the jurisdiction in which the partnership has its principal office governs the partnership agreement and the relations among the partners and between the partners and the partnership. (b…

(a) It is the policy of this chapter and this state to give maximum effect to the principles of freedom of contract and to the enforceability of partnership agreements. (b) Unless displaced by particular provisions of this chapter, the principles of law and equity supplement this…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (b) and (c): (1) the partnership agreement governs relations among the partners as partners and between the partners and the partnership; and (2) to the extent the partnership agreement does not otherwise provide for a matter descri…

(a) A partnership is bound by and may enforce the partnership agreement, whether or not the partnership has itself manifested assent to the partnership agreement. (b) A person that is admitted as a partner of a partnership becomes a party to and assents to the partnership agreeme…

(a) If a partnership agreement provides for the manner in which it may be amended, including by requiring the approval of a person who is not a party to the partnership agreement or the satisfaction of conditions, it may be amended only in that manner or as otherwise permitted by…

A partnership shall maintain the following information: (1) A current list of the full name and last known street and mailing address of each partner, in alphabetical order. (2) Copies of any filed statement. (3) Copies of the partnership’s federal, state, and local income tax re…

A partner may lend money to and transact other business or not for profit activity with the partnership and has the same rights and obligations with respect to the loan or other transaction as a person that is not a partner. (Act 2018-125, §7.)

Action requiring the consent of partners under this chapter may be taken without a meeting, and a partner may appoint a proxy to consent or otherwise act for the partner by signing a writing of appointment, either personally or by the partner’s attorney in fact. (Act 2018-125, §7…

(a) If a partnership agreement provides that an act or transaction is void or voidable when taken, then that act or transaction may be ratified or waived by: (1) the partners or other persons entitled to ratify or waive that act or transaction under the partnership agreement; (2)…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), the association of two or more persons: (1) to carry on as co-owners a business for profit forms a partnership, whether or not the persons intend to form a partnership; or (2) to carry on any not for profit activity, forms a par…

(a) A partnership other than a partnership that has an effective statement of not for profit partnership or an effective statement of limited liability partnership on file with the Secretary of State may deliver to the Secretary of State for filing a statement of partnership for …

(a) A statement may be delivered to the Secretary of State for filing. A certified copy of a statement of authority that was filed by the Secretary of State may be delivered to a judge of probate for filing in accordance with Section 10A-8A-3.03(f) and (g). A certified copy of a …

Property acquired by a partnership is property of the partnership and not of the partners individually. (Act 2018-125, §7.)

(a) Property is partnership property if acquired in the name of: (1) the partnership; or (2) one or more partners with an indication in the instrument transferring title to the property of the person’s capacity as a partner or of the existence of a partnership but without an indi…

Subject to the effect of a statement of authority under Section 10A-8A-3.03: (1) Each partner is an agent of the partnership for the purpose of its business or not for profit activity. An act of a partner, including the execution of an instrument in the partnership name, for appa…

(a) Partnership property may be transferred as follows: (1) Subject to the effect of a statement of authority under Section 10A-8A-3.03, partnership property held in the name of the partnership may be transferred by an instrument of transfer executed by a partner in the partnersh…

(a) A partnership may deliver to the Secretary of State for filing a statement of authority, which: (1) must include the name of the partnership and: (A) if the partnership has not filed a statement of partnership, a statement of not for profit partnership, or a statement of limi…

A person named in a filed statement of authority granting that person authority may deliver to the Secretary of State for filing a statement of denial that: (1) provides: (A) the name of the partnership; (B) the date the statement of authority to which the statement of denial per…