Certificate of limited partnership: means the certificate required by Section 48-2e-201. See Utah Code 48-2e-102
Foreign limited partnership: means an unincorporated entity formed under the law of a jurisdiction other than this state which would be a limited partnership if formed under the law of this state. See Utah Code 48-2e-102
Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
Limited partnership: means an entity formed under this chapter or which becomes subject to this chapter under 11, or Section 48-2e-1205. See Utah Code 48-2e-102
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 Utah Code 48-2e-102
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 the agreement, whether or not referred to as a partnership agreement, and whether oral, implied, in a record, or in any combination thereof, of all the partners of a limited partnership concerning the matters described in Subsection 48-2e-112(1). See Utah Code 48-2e-102
Person: means an individual, business corporation, nonprofit corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, limited 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 Utah Code 48-2e-102
Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
Property: means all property, whether real, personal, or mixed or tangible or intangible, or any right or interest therein. See Utah Code 48-2e-102
Registered foreign limited partnership: means a foreign limited partnership that is registered to do business in this state pursuant to a statement of registration filed by the division. See Utah Code 48-2e-102
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 Utah Code 48-2e-102
Transfer: includes :
(a)
an assignment;
(b)
a conveyance;
(c)
a sale;
(d)
a lease;
(e)
an encumbrance, including a mortgage or security interest;
organized under and subject to the organic law of the domesticated limited partnership; and
(ii)
the same entity without interruption as the domesticating limited partnership;
(b)
all property of the domesticating limited partnership continues to be vested in the domesticated limited partnership without transfer, reversion, or impairment;
(c)
all debts, obligations, and other liabilities of the domesticating limited partnership continue as debts, obligations, and other liabilities of the domesticated limited partnership;
(d)
except as otherwise provided by law or the plan of domestication, all the rights, privileges, immunities, powers, and purposes of the domesticating limited partnership remain in the domesticated limited partnership;
(e)
the name of the domesticated limited partnership may be substituted for the name of the domesticating limited partnership in any pending action or proceeding;
(f)
the certificate of limited partnership of the domesticated limited partnership is effective;
(g)
the provisions of the partnership agreement of the domesticated limited partnership that are to be in a record, if any, approved as part of the plan of domestication are effective; and
(h)
the interests in the domesticating limited partnership are converted to the extent and as approved in connection with the domestication, and the partners of the domesticating limited partnership are entitled only to the rights provided to them under the plan of domestication and to any appraisal rights they have under Section 48-2e-1108.
(2)
Except as otherwise provided in the organic law or partnership agreement of the domesticating limited partnership, the domestication does not give rise to any rights that a partner or third party would have upon a dissolution, liquidation, or winding up of the domesticating limited partnership.
(3)
When a domestication becomes effective, a person that did not have interest holder liability with respect to the domesticating limited partnership and becomes subject to interest holder liability with respect to a domestic limited partnership as a result of the domestication has interest holder liability only to the extent provided by the organic law of the domestic limited partnership and only for those debts, obligations, and other liabilities that arise after the domestication becomes effective.
(4)
When a domestication becomes effective, the following rules apply:
(a)
The domestication does not discharge any interest holder liability under this chapter to the extent the interest holder liability arose before the domestication became effective.
(b)
A person does not have interest holder liability under this part for any debt, obligation, or other liability that arise after the domestication becomes effective.
(c)
A person has whatever rights of contribution from any other person as are provided by law other than this chapter, this chapter, or the partnership agreement of a domestic domesticating limited partnership with respect to any interest holder liability preserved under Subsection (4)(a) as if the domestication had not occurred.
(5)
When a domestication becomes effective, a foreign limited partnership that is the domesticated limited partnership may be served with process in this state for the collection and enforcement of any of its debts, obligations, and other liabilities as provided in Section 16-17-301.
(6)
If the domesticating limited partnership is a registered foreign limited partnership, the registration of the foreign limited partnership is canceled when the domestication becomes effective.
(7)
A domestication does not require the limited partnership to wind up its affairs and does not constitute or cause the dissolution of the limited partnership.
