2018 Ohio Revised Code
Title [17] XVII CORPORATIONS - PARTNERSHIPS
Chapter 1705 - LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES
Section 1705.18 - Assignment of membership interest.

(A) Except as otherwise provided in the operating agreement, a membership interest in a limited liability company is assignable in whole or in part. An assignment of a membership interest does not dissolve the company or entitle the assignee to become or to exercise any rights of a member. An assignment entitles the assignee only to receive, to the extent assigned, the distributions of cash and other property and the allocations of profits, losses, income, gains, deductions, credits, or similar items to which the assignee's assignor would have been entitled. Except as otherwise provided in the operating agreement, an assignor ceases to be a member upon assignment of all the assignor's membership interest. Unless otherwise provided in an operating agreement and except to the extent assumed by agreement of an assignee, until an assignee of a membership interest becomes a member, the assignee does not have liability as a member solely because of the assignment.

(B) A substitute member of a limited liability company or an assignee of a membership interest in a limited liability company is bound by the operating agreement whether or not the substitute member or assignee executes the operating agreement.

Amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.72, HB 48, §1, eff. 5/4/2012.

Effective Date: 10-04-1996 .

Note:

Committee Comment (2012)*

New Division (B) makes express existing Ohio law, and is not a change, that a substitute member or an assignee is bound by the terms of the operating agreement. Since the successor's rights cannot be greater than the rights of the member from whom the successor acquired its interest, the successor is subject to the terms of the operating agreement even if the successor has not executed the operating agreement.

*Comments on 129th General Assembly, HB 48, from the Ohio State Bar Association Corporation Law Committee