Arizona Laws 29-3107. Operating agreement; amendment; effect on third parties and relationship to records effective on behalf of limited liability company
A. An operating agreement may specify that its amendment requires the approval of a person that is not a party to the agreement or the satisfaction of a condition. An amendment is ineffective if its adoption does not include the required approval or satisfy the specified condition.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 29-3107
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Commission: means the corporation commission. See Arizona Laws 29-3102
- Member: means a person that both:
(a) Has become a member of a limited liability company under section 29-3401 or was a member in a company when the company became subject to this chapter under section 29-3110. See Arizona Laws 29-3102
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Operating agreement: means the agreement, whether or not referred to as an operating agreement and whether oral, implied, in a record or in any combination thereof, of all the members of a limited liability company, including a sole member, concerning the matters described in section 29-3105, subsection A. See Arizona Laws 29-3102
- Person: means an individual, business corporation, nonprofit corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, general cooperative association, limited cooperative association, unincorporated nonprofit association, statutory trust, business trust, common-law business trust, estate, trust, association, joint venture, public corporation or government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality or any other legal or commercial entity. See Arizona Laws 29-3102
- Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and that is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Arizona Laws 29-3102
B. The obligations of a limited liability company and its members to a person in the person’s capacity as a transferee or a person dissociated as a member are governed by the operating agreement. Subject to section 29-3409, subsections D and L, an amendment to the operating agreement made after a person becomes a transferee or is dissociated as a member:
1. Is effective with regard to any debt, obligation or other liability of the limited liability company or its members to the person in the person’s capacity as a transferee or person dissociated as a member.
2. Is not effective to the extent the amendment imposes a new debt, obligation or other liability on the transferee or person dissociated as a member.
C. If a record delivered by a limited liability company to the commission for filing becomes effective and contains a provision that would be ineffective under section 29-3105, subsection C if contained in the operating agreement, the provision is ineffective in the record.
D. Subject to subsection C of this section, if a record delivered by a limited liability company to the commission for filing becomes effective and conflicts with a provision of the operating agreement:
1. The agreement prevails as to members, persons dissociated as members, transferees and managers.
2. The record prevails as to other persons to the extent they reasonably rely on the record.