New Jersey Statutes 42:2C-13. Operating agreement; effect on third parties and relationship to records effective on behalf of limited liability company
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 42:2C-13
- 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.
- 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.
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
a. An operating agreement may specify that its amendment requires the approval of a person that is not a party to the operating 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.
b. The obligations of a limited liability company and its members to a person in the person’s capacity as a transferee or dissociated member are governed by the operating agreement. An amendment to the operating agreement made after a person becomes a transferee or dissociated member 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 dissociated member.
c. If a record that has been delivered by a limited liability company to the filing office for filing and has become effective under this act contains a provision that would be ineffective under subsection c. of section 11 of this act, if contained in the operating agreement, the provision is likewise ineffective in the record.
d. Subject to subsection c. of this section, if a record that has been delivered by a limited liability company to the filing office for filing and has become effective under this act conflicts with a provision of the operating agreement:
(1) the operating agreement prevails as to members, dissociated members, transferees, and managers; and
(2) the record prevails as to other persons to the extent they reasonably rely on the record.
L.2012, c.50, s.13; amended 2013, c.276, s.3.