Ohio Code 1776.44 – General standards of partner’s conduct
(A) The only fiduciary duties a partner owes to the partnership and the other partners are the duty of loyalty and the duty of care set forth in divisions (B) and (C) of this section.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 1776.44
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Business: includes every trade, occupation, and profession. See Ohio Code 1776.01
- Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
- 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.
- Partner: means a person admitted to a partnership as a partner. See Ohio Code 1776.01
- 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: means an association of two or more persons to carry on as co-owners a business for-profit formed under section 1776. See Ohio Code 1776.01
- Partnership agreement: means the agreement among the partners concerning the partnership, whether written, oral, or implied. See Ohio Code 1776.01
- Person: means an individual, corporation whether nonprofit or for-profit, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity in its own or any representative capacity, in each case whether domestic or foreign. See Ohio Code 1776.01
- Property: means all property, real, personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interest therein. See Ohio Code 1776.01
- Surviving: means , as applied to an entity, the constituent entity that is specified as the entity into which one or more other constituent entities are to be or have been merged. See Ohio Code 1776.01
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
(B) A partner’s duty of loyalty to the partnership and the other partners is limited to the following:
(1) To account to the partnership and hold as trustee for it any property, profit, or benefit derived by the partner in the conduct and winding up of the partnership business or derived from a use by the partner of partnership property, including the appropriation of a partnership opportunity;
(2) To refrain from dealing with the partnership in the conduct or winding up of the partnership business as or on behalf of a party having an interest adverse to the partnership;
(3) To refrain from competing with the partnership in the conduct of the partnership business before the dissolution of the partnership.
(C) A partner’s duty of care to the partnership and the other partners in the conduct and winding up of the partnership business is limited to refraining from engaging in grossly negligent or reckless conduct, intentional misconduct, or a knowing violation of law.
(D) A partner shall discharge duties to the partnership and the other partners pursuant to this chapter or under the partnership agreement and shall exercise any rights consistent with the obligation of good faith and fair dealing.
(E) A partner does not violate a duty or obligation under this chapter, or under the partnership agreement, merely because the partner’s conduct furthers the partner’s own interest.
(F) A partner may lend money to and transact other business with the partnership, and as to each loan or transaction the rights and obligations of the partner are the same as those of a person who is not a partner, subject to other applicable law.
(G) This section applies to a person winding up the partnership business as the personal or legal representative of the last surviving partner as if the person were a partner.