2016 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 7 - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships
Chapter 7-12 - Partnerships
Section 7-12-17 - Partnership defined.
§ 7-12-17 Partnership defined.
(a) A partnership is an association of two (2) or more persons to carry on as co-owners a business for profit, and includes a registered limited liability partnership.
(b) Any association formed under any other statute of this state, or any statute adopted by authority, other than the authority of the state, is not a partnership under §§ 7-12-12 – 7-12-59, unless the association would have been a partnership in this state prior to May 6, 1957; but §§ 7-12-12 – 7-12-59 apply to limited partnerships except insofar as the statutes relating to partnerships are inconsistent with these provisions.
History of Section.
(R.P.L. 1957, ch. 74, § 6; P.L. 1996, ch. 270, § 1; P.L. 1998, ch. 235, § 1.)
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