Ohio Code 1776.55 – Dissociated partner’s power to bind and liability to partnership
(A) For two years after a partner dissociates without resulting in a dissolution and winding up of the partnership business, the partnership, including a surviving partnership under section 1776.68 of the Revised Code, is bound by any act of the dissociated partner that would have bound the partnership under section 1776.31 of the Revised Code before dissociation only if, at the time of entering into the transaction all of the following were true:
Terms Used In Ohio Code 1776.55
- Business: includes every trade, occupation, and profession. See Ohio Code 1776.01
- 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
- 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
(1) The other party reasonably believed that the dissociated partner was then a partner.
(2) The other party did not have notice of the partner’s dissociation.
(3) The other party is not deemed to have had knowledge under division (E) of section 1776.33 of the Revised Code or notice under division (C) of section 1776.57 of the Revised Code.
(B) A dissociated partner is liable to the partnership for any damage caused to the partnership arising from an obligation incurred by the dissociated partner after dissociation for which the partnership is liable under division (A) of this section.