2015 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 275 - LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES 275.175 Number of votes required to do business -- Circumstances requiring affirmative vote of members -- Written operating agreement for company without members -- No right of dissent.
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275.175 Number of votes required to do business -- Circumstances requiring
affirmative vote of members -- Written operating agreement for company
without members -- No right of dissent.
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Unless otherwise provided in the articles of organization, a written operating
agreement, or this chapter, the affirmative vote, approval, or consent of a majorityin-interest of the members or a simple majority of the managers, each having a
single vote, shall be required to decide any matter connected with the business
affairs of the limited liability company.
Unless otherwise provided in a written operating agreement, irrespective of whether
management of the limited liability company is vested in a manager or managers,
the affirmative vote, approval, or consent of the members shall be required to:
(a) Amend a written operating agreement;
(b) Authorize a manager or member to do any act on behalf of the limited liability
company that contravenes an operating agreement, including any written
provision thereof which expressly limits the purpose, business, or affairs of
the limited liability company or the conduct thereof;
(c) Amend the articles of organization;
(d) Merge or convert the limited liability company or approve a sale of all or
substantially all of its assets;
(e) Admit a new member, including the assignee of a member, as a member;
(f) Remove a member after the assignment of all assignable interest in the limited
liability company;
(g) Waive an agreement to contribute to the limited liability company;
(h) Approve the voluntary dissolution of the limited liability company;
(i) Approve any acting contravention of a written operating agreement; or
(j) Allow the voluntary resignation of a member from a manager-managed
limited liability company.
Unless otherwise provided in the articles of organization, a written operating
agreement, or this chapter, for all purposes of this chapter, the members of a limited
liability company shall vote, approve, or consent in proportion to their
contributions, based upon the agreed value as stated in the records of the limited
liability company as required by KRS 275.185, made by each member to the extent
they have been received by the limited liability company and have not been
returned.
In a nonprofit limited liability company that does not have members, the capacity
and authority to manage the business and affairs of the company shall be set forth in
a written operating agreement.
Unless otherwise provided in the articles of organization or the written operating
agreement, no member of a limited liability company shall have the right to dissent
from an amendment to the operating agreement or the articles of organization.
Effective: June 24, 2015
History: Amended 2015 Ky. Acts ch. 34, sec. 53, effective June 24, 2015. -- Amended
2013 Ky. Acts ch. 106, sec. 6, effective June 25, 2013. -- Repealed and reenacted
2010 Ky. Acts ch. 51, sec. 110, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended 2007 Ky. Acts
ch. 137, sec. 110, effective June 26, 2007. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 341, sec.
29, effective July 15, 1998. -- Created 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 389, sec. 35, effective July
15, 1994.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/15/2010). 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 51, sec. 183,
provides, "The specific textual provisions of Sections 1 to 178 of this Act which
reflect amendments made to those sections by 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 137 shall be deemed
effective as of June 26, 2007, and those provisions are hereby made expressly
retroactive to that date, with the remainder of the text of those sections being
unaffected by the provisions of this section."
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