2018 California Code
Corporations Code - CORP
TITLE 2 - PARTNERSHIPS
CHAPTER 4.5 - Uniform Limited Partnership Act of 2008
ARTICLE 12 - Miscellaneous Provisions
Section 15912.06.
(a) Before January 1, 2010, this chapter governs only:
(1) a limited partnership formed on or after January 1, 2008; and
(2) except as otherwise provided in subdivisions (c) and (d), a limited partnership formed before January 1, 2008, which elects, in the manner provided in its partnership agreement or by law for amending the partnership agreement, to be subject to this chapter.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (c), on and after January 1, 2010, this chapter governs all limited partnerships.
(c) With respect to a limited partnership formed before January 1, 2008, the following rules apply except as the partners otherwise elect in the manner provided in the partnership agreement or by law for amending the partnership agreement:
(1) Section 15901.04(c) does not apply and the limited partnership has whatever duration it had under the law applicable immediately before January 1, 2008.
(2) Sections 15906.01 and 15906.02 do not apply and a limited partner has the same right and power to dissociate from the limited partnership, with the same consequences, as existed immediately before January 1, 2008.
(3) Subdivision (d) of Section 15906.03 does not apply.
(4) Subdivision (e) of Section 15906.03 does not apply and a court has the same power to expel a general partner as the court had immediately before January 1, 2008.
(5) Subdivision (c) of Section 15908.01 does not apply and the connection between a person’s dissociation as a general partner and the dissolution of the limited partnership is the same as existed immediately before January 1, 2008.
(d) With respect to a limited partnership that elects pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) to be subject to this chapter, after the election takes effect, the provisions of this chapter relating to the liability of the limited partnership’s general partners to third parties apply:
(1) before January 1, 2010, to:
(A) a third party that had not done business with the limited partnership in the year before the election took effect; and
(B) a third party that had done business with the limited partnership in the year before the election took effect only if the third party knows or has received a notification of the election; and
(2) on and after January 1, 2010, to all third parties, but those provisions remain inapplicable to any obligation incurred while those provisions were inapplicable under subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1).
(Added by Stats. 2006, Ch. 495, Sec. 20. Effective January 1, 2007. Section operative January 1, 2008, pursuant to Section 15912.04.)
