2013 Maryland Code
CORPORATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS
§ 10-202 - Amendment to certificate

§10-202.

(a) A certificate is amended by filing a certificate of amendment with the Department. The certificate of amendment shall set forth:

(1) The name of the limited partnership; and

(2) The amendment to the certificate.

(b) (1) A general partner who becomes aware that any statement in a certificate was false when made or that any arrangements or other facts described have changed, making the certificate inaccurate in any material respect, shall promptly amend the certificate, but an amendment to show a change of address of a limited partner need be filed only once every 12 months.

(2) A certificate may be amended at any time for any other proper purpose.

(c) A certificate of amendment (or judicial decree of amendment) shall be effective when accepted for filing by the Department or at any later time specified in the certificate of amendment (or judicial decree of amendment).

§ 10-202 - 1. Certificate of correction

(a) Necessity for correction. -- If any certificate filed with the Department under this article contains any typographical error, error of transcription, or other technical error or has been defectively executed, the document may be corrected by the filing of a certificate of correction.

(b) Contents. -- A certificate of correction shall set forth:

(1) The title of the document being corrected;

(2) The name of each party to the document being corrected;

(3) The date that the document being corrected was filed; and

(4) The provision in the document as previously filed and as corrected and, if execution of the document was defective, the manner in which it was defective.

(c) Limitation on use. -- A certificate of correction may not make any other change or amendment which would not have complied in all respects with the requirements of this article at the time the document being corrected was filed.

(d) Execution. -- A certificate of correction shall be executed in the same manner in which the document being corrected was required to be executed.

(e) Change in document's effective date; rights and liabilities not affected. -- A certificate of correction may not:

(1) Change the effective date of the document being corrected; or

(2) Affect any right or liability accrued or incurred before its filing, except that any right or liability accrued or incurred by reason of the error or defect being corrected shall be extinguished by the filing if the person having the right has not detrimentally relied on the original document.