(a) If a person is dissociated as a general partner:

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 61-3-605

  • 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.
  • General partner: means a person that:
    (A) Has become a general partner under §. See Tennessee Code 61-3-101
  • 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 limited partner or general partner. See Tennessee Code 61-3-101
  • 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.
  • Person: means an individual, business corporation, nonprofit corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, cooperative association, unincorporated nonprofit association, statutory trust, business trust, common-law business trust, estate, trust, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Tennessee Code 61-3-101
  • Sign: means , with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record:
    (A) To execute or adopt a tangible symbol. See Tennessee Code 61-3-101
  • State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Tennessee Code 61-3-101
(1) The person’s right to participate as a general partner in the management and conduct of the limited partnership‘s activities and affairs terminates;
(2) The person’s duties and obligations as a general partner under § 61-3-409 end with regard to matters arising and events occurring after the person’s dissociation;
(3) The person may sign and deliver to the secretary of state for filing a statement of dissociation pertaining to the person and, at the request of the limited partnership, shall sign an amendment to the certificate of limited partnership which states that the person has dissociated as a general partner; and
(4) Subject to § 61-3-704 and part 11 of this chapter, any transferable interest owned by the person in the person’s capacity as a general partner immediately before dissociation is owned by the person solely as a transferee.
(b) A person’s dissociation as a general partner does not, of itself, discharge the person from any debt, obligation, or other liability to the limited partnership or the other partners that the person incurred while a general partner.
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