§ 121-402. Events of withdrawal of a general partner. A person ceases to be a general partner of a limited partnership upon the happening of any of the following events:

Terms Used In N.Y. Partnership Law 121-402

  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Distribution: means the transfer of property by a limited partnership to one or more of its partners in his capacity as a partner. See N.Y. Partnership Law 121-101
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • General partner: means a person who has been admitted to a limited partnership as a general partner in accordance with the partnership agreement and, if required by the law of the jurisdiction under which the limited partnership or foreign limited partnership, as the case may be, is organized, is so named in the certificate of limited partnership or similar instrument. See N.Y. Partnership Law 121-101
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Partner: means a limited or general partner. See N.Y. Partnership Law 121-101
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Partnership agreement: means any written agreement of the partners as to the affairs of a limited partnership and the conduct of its business. See N.Y. Partnership Law 121-101
  • Person: means a natural person, partnership, limited partnership (domestic or foreign), limited liability company (domestic or foreign), trust, estate, custodian, nominee, association, corporation or any other individual or entity in its own or any representative capacity. See N.Y. Partnership Law 121-101
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

(a) the general partner withdraws from the limited partnership as provided in section 121-602 of this article;

(b) the general partner ceases to be a general partner as provided in section 121-702 of this article;

(c) the general partner is removed as a general partner as may be provided in the partnership agreement;

(d) unless otherwise provided in the partnership agreement or approved by all partners, the general partner (i) makes an assignment for the benefit of creditors, (ii) is the subject of an order for relief under Title 11 of the United States Code, (iii) files a petition or answer seeking for himself any reorganization, arrangement, composition, readjustment, liquidation, dissolution, or similar relief under any statute, law, or regulation, (iv) files an answer or other pleading, admitting or failing to contest the material allegations of a petition filed against him in any proceeding of this nature, or (v) seeks, consents to, or acquiesces in the appointment of a trustee, receiver, or liquidator of the general partner or of all or any substantial part of his properties;

(e) unless otherwise provided in the partnership agreement or approved by all partners, (i) if within one hundred twenty days after the commencement of any proceeding against the general partner seeking reorganization, arrangement, composition, readjustment, liquidation, dissolution, or similar relief under any statute, law, or regulation, the proceeding has not been dismissed or stayed, or within ninety days after the expiration of any such stay, the proceeding has not been dismissed, or (ii) if within ninety days after the appointment without his consent or acquiescence of a trustee, receiver, or liquidator of the general partner or of all or any substantial part of his properties, the appointment is not vacated or stayed, or within ninety days after the expiration of any such stay, the appointment is not vacated;

(f) in the case of a general partner who is a natural person, (i) his death or (ii) the entry of a judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction adjudicating him incompetent to manage his person or his property;

(g) in the case of a general partner who is acting as a general partner by virtue of being a trustee of a trust, the termination of the trust (but not merely the substitution of a new trustee);

(h) in the case of a general partner that is a partnership, unless the partnership agreement of such partnership provides for the right of any one or more of the partners of such partnership to continue the business of such partnership and such partnership is so continued, the dissolution and commencement of winding up of such partnership;

(i) in the case of a general partner that is a corporation, the filing of a certificate of dissolution, or its equivalent, for the corporation or the revocation of its charter;

(j) in the case of a general partner that is an estate, the distribution by the fiduciary of the estate's entire interest in the limited partnership; or

(k) in the case of a general partner that is a limited liability company, unless the operating agreement of such limited liability company provides for the right of any member of such limited liability company to continue the limited liability company and such limited liability company is so continued, the dissolution and commencement of winding up of such limited liability company.

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